Authored by Robert A. Bishop via AmericanThinker.com.
Mao Zedong began China’s Cultural Revolution in 1966; the brainwashing tool was the “struggle session.” Struggle sessions (psychological torture) are public denunciations and humiliations in front of crowds targeting citizens who held Chinese traditions for re-education to create unity and consolidate power through thought reform.
Mass denunciation rallies used stagecraft and scripts in public squares, classrooms, and workplaces to extract confessions of imaginary crimes and guilt. Targeted individuals and groups were interrogated and publicly abused to coerce confessions, including beatings for being selfish, greedy, and unenlightened. The objective is for the individual to seek psychological relief through confession. Contrition required repeated admissions followed by sincere actions — e.g., surrender of property. It was self-cancelation, breaking one’s moral compass. Those who didn’t submit or issued an insincere confession were tortured and imprisoned.
Modern-Day Struggle Sessions
DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, Equity) training is nihilism indoctrination and has swept through Western institutions. It is a modern Maoist struggle session. Individuals failing to cooperate or acknowledge their bias or white privilege in DIE training lead to ostracization, public humiliation, and possible job loss. DIE incentivizes the formation of employee hierarchal groups around sex, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, which fosters resentment. There is no objective evidence that DIE programs reduce racism, bigotry, and prejudice.
ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) is a corporate social credit score to exert control over publicly traded corporations. ESG helps promote the World Economic Forum’s “stakeholder capitalism,” handing partial control to outsiders. The “S” in ESG uses DIE as the critical metric for human capital reporting making DIE employee training compulsory.
DIE proponents claim it increases collaboration, engagement, innovation, growth, and profitability. The reality: It increases conflict, harassment, and complaints, resulting in lower productivity and profitability. DIE creates a potential stigma for talented employees, who are viewed as tokens, and their promotions are viewed with unwarranted cynicism.
DIE is big business and has ballooned into a $9 billion unregulated industry. Al Sharpton is green with envy. Hundreds of DIE consulting firms replicate the same ideology like a virus infection. Universities have prerequisite DIE training, too.
DIE Training Methodology
DIE training relies on a participatory, hands-on exercise battery that intentionally avoids merit-based performance dialogues. The activities include a wide range of self-awareness exercises, such as skits, book reports (e.g., White Fragility), privilege walks, group brainstorming, culture pursuit, and diversity bingo. Click here for an extensive catalog of DIE exercises.
The insidious life raft survival exercise is one of the most common and divisive lessons. The trainer strategically divides participants into groups of twelve. Their ship has sunk, and they must board a raft accommodating only eight. The group must choose the most deserving passengers, and everyone must agree on the final eight passengers and reach a consensus. The four who aren’t selected are metaphorically in the sea of unemployment. The goal is to illustrate how perceptions and stereotypes affect one’s behavior. It naturally devolves into resentment among the participants. It smears or labels some individuals as biased, prejudiced, and benefiting from inherited privilege. So much for promoting inclusion.
Training can devolve into ritual apologies or proclaiming guilt. The exercises make many employees feel manipulated and controlled, and they logically react negatively.
DIE training triggers discrimination lawsuit
Stanford University serves as a case study of how DIE training becomes poisonous. Stanford University’s Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS) created a DIE committee that went through weekly seminars and created racial-based affinity groups. Two Jews were assigned to the “whiteness accountability” group. The group was stereotyped as complicit in anti-black racism, thus labeling Jews as bigots. The DIE committee supported an anti-Semitic narrative by connecting the Jews to white supremacy. Due to harassment and intimidation from the DIE committee, they dropped from the DIE training. They filed an EEOC complaint and discrimination lawsuit (linked here) against Stanford University, a prime example of intersectionality collusion.
Canceling DIE brainwashing
Most employers make it mandatory to participate in DIE brainwashing training. You can either lie low or challenge the ideological training. Remember, being belligerent or hostile could get you disciplined or fired. One of the best and low-key methods is the Socratic Method, by asking the facilitator questions that expose distorted facts and contradictions and engage participants in critical thinking. For example, “Does equity consider employee’s merit performances?” Or “Wouldn’t a color-blind workplace remove biases?”
Suppose the training requires confessions — e.g., of transphobia. In that case, you can firmly respond that it violates your civil rights regarding self-cancelation and that you will not participate. Never admit to imagery thoughtcrimes or that you have benefited from the system by default. Use simple responses to prevent the facilitator from probing your answers.
Recording and discreetly releasing the training through conservative news outlets or high-profile influencers will educate the public and damage the DIE movement. An example of the effectiveness of this strategy was the public release of the video of Coca-Cola demanding that white workers be “less white.” LinkedIn pulled the “Confronting Racism” video from its LinkedIn education library.
Bob Bishop is a resident of San Antonio and a forensic investigator and a retired CPA.
I am a horrible person. I want nothing and I am happy.
[was that the right answer??]
Wanting nothing doesn’t defend someone against this nonsense. During the BLM riots, one of the slogans they scrawled was “white silence = violence”. Having done nothing bad is not good enough. Being non-racist is insufficient. You’re supposed to be an “anti-racist”. Failing to actively promote the left’s goals is to be “complicit”.
The side that wants to win will always beat the side that just wants to be left alone.
“Was that the right answer?”
No.
These creatures are after Traveller now, even though he was a horse, and has been dead for 150 years. He committed the horse-crime of being Robert E. Lee’s mount.
They’ve removed the memorial plaque on his stables, and they’re digging him up.
It will be a great honor for Traveller to be dug up and stand proudly in the company of Oliver Cromwell who was also so dug up and judged fit to stand trial for tyrannicide. I am sure Traveller is still well fit to be elected to the Senate & considering the Biden administration resembles a Roman Funeral it would be poetic justice indeed to elect such a the noble steed.
There is no “right answer” comrade….
Proud
Indigenous
White
Heterosexual
Christian
Male
Proud
+ normal
Once upon a time Pride meant having pride in yourself, home, community and country. The word pride has now been debased to mean LBQGT+ with the erosion of morals, beliefs and culture.
Correct.
Homosexual describes what it is.
Gay is a stolen word for happy times with the kids or young people.
Green fields, spring flowers etc.
LBQXYZ is computer code for zombie nation.
It all satanic double speak, lies and filth.
5 eyes 5 ears 5 tongues.
Times long ago when the North American, native Indians called them Dog Face soldiers and “speak with forked tongue!”
Manhattan the first robbery, first murder and first denial.
WW3 Manhattan it gets the first nuke.
Careful what you wish for neocons, as the saying goes.
You know they will never stop! Until there is nothing left to pervert and destroy.
This is absolutely correct analysis for the ongoing agenda driven by the marxist progressive left and Democratic party. Recognizing that the race division, the gender division and faux identity creation as all a repackaging of the concepts Mao and Madame Mao used during the Cultural Revolution to consolidate totalitarian power by destroying the Chinese people’s thousands of years cultural foundation. It almost succeeded but for the overwhelming incompetency of the ensuing bureaucracy and the foundational importance of family to Chinsese culture.
Non compliance is the only way. Pussy shit like trying to outsmart your interlocutor only perpetuates the situation. That’s what they are counting on. Do you think for one minute that they have not already war gamed your response? They are doing exactly what they think they can get away with. When their gaming the situation goes wrong then we crow about our great victory.
Have been non-compliant for many years, and vocal about it at times, but it’s had little, if any, detectable effect… We need critical mass, if non-compliance is to succeed — a consensus rally point — political and non-violent, that exposes the Swamp in all its ignoble glory and traitorous hypocrisy.
Buehler? Buehler? Buehler?
The covid compliance was appalling. Now we are into vaccine genocide and the silence is deafening.
Critical mass is what we are all waiting for. It was getting far too imminent when they rolled out the Roe vs Wade stuff to divide everybody up again. That was quite the successful operation. Now we are waiting again and that is exactly where they want us.
It is precisely those inflection points that are so dangerous to tyrants and why they have such an extensive apparatus to quash them. It is our job to be totally ready to utilize that point in time before the situation becomes co-opted by design.
Those inflection points are going to be coming in more often as the subjugation of humanity progresses. Opportunity will present itself. Shit will be coming in hard and heavy and the ameliorating response will lag or falter at some point.
I will die on feet before I live on my knees.
As highlighted in the article- Mao’s cultural revolution failed in the end.
So to will the NWO/Davos great reset agenda(globalist cultural revolution).
As a previous commentor noted- Mao’s revolution failed due to “overwhelming incompetency in the controlling bureaucracy”.
When you look at the “leaders” of the west- what is very clear?
Overwhelming incompetence!
Hoping for some magical moment of “critical mass” is pointless.
Developing your non-compliance “muscle” is the best thing you can do for yourself.
Then help others develop theirs.
Non-compliance is a male trait.
Why do you think there is such a widespread attack on everything male in America & western societies?
“They” know non-compliant men are the only true threat to their “revolution”.
A small % of non-compliant men will ensure “they” fail.
Overwhelming incompetence is not a random occurrence. It is the natural endgame in any tyrannical system, since yesmen & other kakistocrats rise to the top (a feature of the system), while the true luminaries/actually competent people with some morals lay low. Those systems always fail due to overwhelming incompetence.
Throughout the ages, find ONE successful tyrannical system that lasted a while. One, two generations at most, then collapse. Even great empires were brought down by this inescapable fact.
Doesn’t stop tyrants from trying again & again & again of course.
They failed because they didn’t have complete information about potential enemies and most often they failed because of threats from the outside.
If you have the power to demonetize every potential non-compliant and don’t have to fear any threat from outside it is most likely game over.
The worst thing to happen is thus a one-world-authority which claims to act ‘for the greater good’.
A lot of valid observations in the comments.
The reason I responded here, is common ground with you, Spanky, up to a point.
The problem is, by taking the “make it easy on yourself” route as described above, (supplying critical questions while participating and/or “blend in” answers, we DO NOT help to get rid of this dung.
Yes, non compliance, (wasn’t it Thoreau who said civil disobedience is our duty?), but we need to make it loud and clear that we are not complying!
That is the only way to create critical mass because no one will follow the one who whispers.
We have let this circus go on too long already, and by not speaking out, we just give more room to the ones who relentlessly push their agenda until they meet real resistance. Then they lay low, until the (not so critical) masses have forgotten about their devious agenda and the next program is launched.
They need to be stopped for once and for always.
But I agree, non compliance is step one. Start now!
Not sure how “self-cancelation” is connected to civil rights. It would be nice if that was expanded.
IMO, the best path is religious beliefs. AFAIK, the courts have been very generous in giving citizens the right to define their own religious beliefs and to protect their right to hold and practice those beliefs.
Use your religious freedom as much as possible.
Claiming religious reasons just paints a big fat target on your back. The courts are slow and expensive, and the result is far from guaranteed.
The best defense is being the grey man and engaging on malicious compliance.
It’s like the Great Leap forward but for stupid people.
I identify as a horse.
I need a clean, well bedded, private stall. 🐎
Mao Tse Tung led a war that you call a revolution, well, but a cultural revolution against the revolution of Chiang Kai Shek, so that China would not become a Bolshevik government, the government of the whole world, whose alt was Chiang Kai Shek. Mao accepted the same struggle as Josif Visarijonović Stalin, who purged the Great Evil over Russia, the Bolshevik government, and saved Russia and then defeated Nazism, just as Mao saved China and defeated fascism, the servant of Nazism in Japan. Bolshevik socialism insisted on an uninterrupted revolution all over the world, to establish a World Government by violence, Stalin’s socialism was valid only for one people and one country, Mao Zedong accepted it in the same, and Russia is great thanks to Stalin, and China is great thanks to Mao Zedong Tungu, and precisely in the same they defeat the Globalization of the world under One Government.
Revisionist…
Call it what you will, but nothing can change what history has recorded in the events of time in the world. China has 5,000 years of uninterrupted Spiritual Culture and as such is unique in the world. The spirit of Confucius is constantly present, with the socialism of Mao Tse Tung, which is valid only for China, today China has defeated poverty, there are no poor people in China, Stalin forged all the victories of Russia with the forged Cultural Spirit of the Slavs, Orthodoxy, socialism, which is only valid for Russia, and today, Russia is the largest military power in the world. And that is the eternal salvation of humanity from evil.
Bob should be extolling Mao. Mao knew exactly which class of people would be attempting to spread woke nonsense 70 years in the future.
> The First Emperor only buried 460 alive scholars, while we’ve buried 46,000.
Bob should join CIA.
Great rebuttal to traditional US propaganda about Mao and China generally and bought into by Bob Bishop, who simply dismisses the point of view with no facts and a typical US we’re-right-and-they’re-wrong-because-we’re-better-than-everyone-else attitude.
Not an argument…
Good points.
China stands today as a unified nation because of its cultural tradition and because Mao unified the country under a single system devoid of partisan, identity, or any other type of division.
Big brother loves you.
No, it isn’t. What Bob failed to do is ask the question, WHOSE interests does this ‘nihilism indoctrination’ serve?
The working class? Of course not. In fact they are at the forefront of resisting these sweeping social changes.
It isn’t even being done in the interests of someone like Musk or Bezos.
No. It’s being done in the interests of the financial institutions based in the City of London. Hello? They’re bankrolling it.
You wanna talk nihilism? What is more nihilistic than making money for its own sake? It’s just a number somewhere, it isn’t REAL.
“No. It’s being done in the interests of the financial institutions based in the City of London. Hello? They’re bankrolling it.”
That would make it capitalist. We all know that communists are to blame for everything.
Those filthy communists!
The libertarian (libertine) religion provides great justification for calling controlling, manipulating, degrading, destroying personal and social ideas corporate-fascism/nazism engineers and promotes and imposes upon the population as Marxist, Socialist, Communist, Leftist. It is a remarkable exercise in blame shifting and projection.
Marx and Mao and the Soviets did not discover such mental and social manipulation; the Roman Inquisition used similar methods for centuries, and all false religions partake of similar tools of personal and social dominion.
The US’s popular ideological consensus cannot impute such hellish ideas to the corporate-fascist mafia that rule the land. The word “private” has been elevated to godhood, thereby exonerating any enterprise, institution, association, initiative with such word in its title, of any possible ill intention or wrongdoing (noting that “publicly owned ” company in US parlance means privately owned, if by more than one shareholder). The fact that Bolshevism and Fascism and Nazism were implemented in various parts of the world, over the decades, by the essential agency of US/UK/European corporate-fascistic industry, banking and finance escapes the attention and consideration of all those starry-eyed “libertarians” (libertines).
The ‘melting pot’ is congealing into incompatible lumps. Always has, always will. It’s a natural process and it ain’t artificially fixable.
I’m pretty sure that visible “butt cracks”, welfare, celebration of pimps, ho’s, drug dealers and killing cops is not the way to go? But it is popular? I don’t like “gangsta’ rap either”, which I guess turned into Hip Hop ? Principles seem to be rich is good, easy money is good, tough is good, drugs are good, women are for sex only, etc. Hmm…. “exposed butt cracks” could be seen as equaling “freedom” and “respect”. Ebonics seems to be a non issue these days?
It looks more like the “kill the birds to save the crops” Maoïst thing : it make sens in a way , but it neglect so much hypothesis in the problem than the solution will ever be wrong.
It’s like the sanction policies , if you cancel the world , don’t be surprise when the world don’t trade with you anymore.
Those most able to convincingly lie, psychopaths, will take all these courses and rise to the top, as usual.
The key however, is they will remain the most prejudiced, hateful and vindictive in any culture, in spite of their well acted credentials to the contrary.
“ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) is a corporate social credit score to exert control over publicly traded corporations. ESG helps promote the World Economic Forum’s “stakeholder capitalism,” handing partial control to outsiders. The “S” in ESG uses DIE as the critical metric for human capital reporting making DIE employee training compulsory.”
Musk just this week announced ESG is evil, and even BlackRock’s Larry Fink has walked ESG back. Rumors are that ESG Credit Ratings are to be replaced with Larry Points!
Ours then is to do or DIE for them.
By the way, even mild doses of DIE are hilarious : anyone here know Dell Inc, that TX icon?
Well, their HR asked a job applicant friend “have you any friends – I see none in your likedIN or CV?”
Friend replied – “all my friends are dead” – meaning Einstein, Planck, … . HR Wokie went into a jaw dropping reboot, prompting Boss to give a sharp elbow to reset Wokie. The job was Home office (before COVID). Elbow distance an’ all that!
DIE is behavioral psychology, as the infamous boat example betrays, with bestial notion of man as an irrational creature, driven by overwhelming impulses to seek pleasure and avoid pain, which is at the heart of the so-called “behavioral economics” dogma, came directly from Venice, not China or Mao, the wellspring of all modern financier oligarchism. The author of this schema, which ruthlessly rejects actual human creativity, was Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623), quite a bit earlier than Mao, what?
The origins of behaviorist economics can be traced to two Israeli behavioral psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tverski. In 1979, the pair published
the fundamental work of the new “science,” Prospect Theory, Analysis of
Decisions Under Risk. Links available not for the weak kneed.
This stuff turned up under Obama’s Obamacare with Orzag. The Author could very easily find this, so are we dealing with a bipartisan bestial behavioral psychology of bonobo’s?
Behavioral Economics is what is used by people who have marginal math aptitude(and unwillingness to improve it) to justify taking stuff from other people. Followers have tendency to hang out with entertainers(groupies)
and sports stars(jock sniffers).
What couple with a Martha’s Vineyard dacha might that be?
I’m white. Don’t like it? Tough!
Kenneth Bailey was a loser at Immigration & Customs Enforcement that was in charge of the agency’s Office of Civil Rights. He conducted the training at Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) – the training was the pathetic lifeboat exercise. When the “training” was over the class was totally distraught over how this black racist rose to this position at DHS. Two of us filed complaints over his blatant racist comments aimed at the participants.
And Maoism and DIE is just another variant of the normal human condition.
Control. You will follow these 10 Commandments! Or we will kill you. We will definitely kill you if you follow the Koran. If you don’t kill us first, of course. You will mow your grass, or the community will hound you! You will cut your hair! Or you will wear your hair long!
The human animal only knows one true joy. When it is dominating and controlling another human being. Pedo Island. You know what that was? All those people had money to hire vastly better professionals. It was control. Domination. That is what gets people off.
There is consternation now because one control system is being swapped for another. That is where the friction is.
And you can fight them. By all means. Man the battlements! Go to a protest. Get arrested. You’ll show them!
Or. You could check out. Reduce your exposure. Sell your property. Rent. When the loonies take over here, move somewhere else. And reduce your exposure to the lunatic human race. They only control you if you let them. If you let them suck you into the hate and lunacy. Live your own life by your own rules. And understand one thing. There are no “Good Guys”. Every system, religion, belief, country, or dogma is just a mechanism to control you.
That way of thinking doesn’t fit the fact that everything bad is communiss. My man Bishop is stressing that in every single article he writes. All bad things are related to communism in some way.
Larry, it’s Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity or IED.
Sounds explosive.
Not a bad article, but, when you remember that nothing you do, including going along, will satisfy the wokesters you soon realize that the advice presented here on how to deal with it won’t work. All you are doing is postponing the inevitable. You may save yourself trouble for a brief time, but your society and country will go down the drain in any case.
As someone asked a while ago, “Can’t we just all get along?”
IMHO, the world will pretty soon (estimate no more than 20 years hence) be run by people who are not obsessed with the DIE/woke nonsense. They will be in countries like China, Russia, India and others. They recognise and reward merit. Whether those people are ‘nice’ remains to be seen – or will the traditional bigotries (us/not us) re-emerge?
Meanwhile (what’s left of) the ‘West’ agonises about whether men can have babies and if putting your pronouns at the end of business correspondence should be compulsory.
“Not long now.”
You forgot that DIE is Maoist (as per title), and Mao is Chinese.
Hey, Joe, whaddya know? Sorry, couldn’t resist 🙂
To say that DIE (etc) is *like* the 1960s Maoist Chinese Cultural Revolution is not the same as saying it *is* the Maoist Chinese Cultural Revolution. Since then, China has eschewed that horrible ideological stuff in favour of “getting on with business.”
I’ll stand by my point, othewise stated: The Pragmatic Shall Inherit the Earth.
I had to google that phrase, and am still not any wiser.
You should do search on Joseph McCarthy. Every American patriot knows that all bad things are related to communists, especially Chinese and Russians. I have no idea what DIE is, but Chinese are surely to blame (and Russians, probably).
“Every American patriot knows …”
Oh, now I get it. Your moniker is not just a reference to the witch-hunting senator from Wisconsin, you are actually the ghost of Joe McCarthy!
“Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?”
Well, Senator, as a non-American living far, far away, I’m just going to have to take the Fifth. A fifth of whiskey, that is.
Kiss kiss.
There was a brief mention of LinkedIn. Over the last 10 years I have found them very deceptive and invasive of privacy in their probing for personal information. In the beginning I never felt a need for their services. They still probe and try to elicit responses.
I would have expected Marines to refuse to play a game where someone is left behind.
https://www.usafencing.org/news_article/show/1269569
Struggle Sessions have infested many levels of our society and official USA-affiliated organizations are some of the worst. Wanna play? – you have to pay (in more ways than one).