• Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    Side point but it’s kinda crazy how the modern usage of paper tiger was coined by Mao an interview with one of the US’s greatest historians, and most US citizens have no idea who she is or have read anything by her. (Anna Louise Strong)

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPM
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      3 hours ago

      It’s such a great example how the whole free press narrative is a brilliant piece of propaganda. It turns out that simply marginalizing ideas is far more effective than banning them.