Survivor of Mao's China warns America is falling for the same tricks: 'We got slavery'



As Chinese president and communist dictator Xi Jinping steps out in San Francisco to meet with Biden, Glenn Beck is getting to know one of his detractors.

A survivor of Mao’s cultural revolution, Xi Van Fleet is warning Americans about what’s waiting in the not-so-distant future for them.

Van Fleet grew up in communist China and lived through the horrors of the cultural revolution. As a young school girl, she was forced into the countryside along with other school-aged children for re-education.

Once out of high school, she escaped communism and came to America.

30 years later, she sees the same signs in America that she saw as a child in China.

Van Fleet notes that identity politics, cancel culture, weaponization of young people, and indoctrination in schools all happened in China.

While China used class to divide people into enemies of the state and allies of the state, America uses gender and sexuality.

“It looks like it’s different, but it’s the same. This indoctrination of children — it’s exactly the same,” Van Fleet tells Glenn.

Van Fleet explains that the “four olds” show just how close America is to reaching their fate. In China, this term meant eradicating the old cultures, old ideas, old habits, and old customs.

This included destroying statues and changing names of streets, stores, food labels, and institutions to all be politically correct.

“They want to replace the tradition with something new. And in China that is Maoism, and here is Maoism with American characteristics,” she explains, adding, “and then a lot of people fall for it and that is the problem with Marxism. It gives you a beautiful picture.”

“We fell for it in China too,” she continues. “We got slavery.”


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Virginia mom who survived Mao's purge says DOJ and school board association use 'communist tactics'



A Virginia woman who lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution in China before emigrating to the United States said actions taken by the National School Boards Association and the Justice Department remind her of tactics adopted by the Chinese Communist Party to stop parents from speaking out.

Xi Van Fleet, who made national headlines in June when she spoke at a meeting of the Loudoun County school board and criticized critical race theory, said the likening of protesting parents to "domestic terrorists" is meant to divide people.

"When I was in China, I spent my entire school years in the Chinese Cultural Revolution, so I'm very, very familiar with the communist tactics of how to divide people, how they canceled the Chinese traditional culture and destroyed our heritage," Xi Van Fleet told Fox News in an interview Wednesday. "All this is happening here in America."

She said that opponents of protests against critical race theory and transgender policies are now calling parents "domestic terrorists" because calling them "racists" didn't work.

Earlier this month, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memorandum announcing the Department of Justice is "committed to using its authority and resources" to investigate alleged threats of violence against school officials. The directive came in response to a letter from the National School Boards Association that claimed school officials nationwide were "under immediate threat" because of rowdy protests by concerned parents and residents.

The NSBA letter cited more than 20 examples of disorderly conduct or protests at school board meetings that involved intimidation, threats, or violence, likening these incidents to "domestic terrorism" or "hate crimes."

Critics blasted the letter and the DOJ's response, accusing the Biden administration of demonizing concerned parents and arguing it is not the role of the federal government to police school board meetings and that local law enforcement is more then capable of handling threats against school officials.

"I have to say, this will backfire. If intimidation works, America has fallen a long time ago," Van Fleet said.

"I do have a question: What's [the] next step? Is the Tiananmen Square crackdown the next, or the parents who one day risked their lives just to speak out for the children? That's why I'm here," she added.

Van Fleet's son graduated from Loudoun High School in 2015. She said protesting parents must not be intimidated because their children's futures are at stake.

"For me, I'm fighting it because it is about our future. The future of this country. So we cannot be intimidated."

Woman who survived Mao's purge compares critical race theory in US schools to China's Cultural Revolution in scathing speech



Woke leftists have been pushing critical race theory in public education, which has prompted many to compare CRT to cultural Marxism reminiscent of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution. One woman who actually survived the decade-long Chinese sociopolitical movement sees frightening similarities between critical race theory and Mao's violent purge. The Chinese-American immigrant skewered a Virginia school board this week for pushing critical race theory on children.

Xi Van Fleet was 6-years-old when the Cultural Revolution began in 1966, and she distinctly remembers how toxic the environment of Mao's Communist China was at the time. She recalls that students and teachers were pitted against each other by hanging posters in "hallways and the cafeteria where students could write criticisms against anyone deemed ideological impure," according to Fox News.

During Tuesday's public meeting for the Loundon County School Board, Van Fleet voiced her concerns over the current "progressive" ideology and parallels to Chairman Mao's genocidal rule that left between 500,000 and 20 million people dead between 1966 and 1976.

"I've been very alarmed by what's going on in our schools," Van Fleet told the school board members. "You are now teaching, training our children to be social justice warriors and to loathe our country and our history."

"Growing up in Mao's China, all of this seems very familiar," Van Fleet, who fled from China at the age of 26, said. "The Communist regime used the same critical theory to divide people. The only difference is they used class instead of race."

"During the Cultural Revolution, I witnessed students and teachers turn against each other," Van Fleet, whose son graduated from Loudoun High School in 2015, added. "We changed school names to be politically correct."

She recalls that one of the teachers was considered "bourgeoisie" because she "liked to wear pretty clothes." The class warfare caused students to spit on the teacher, "She was covered with spit… and pretty soon it became violence."

"We were taught to denounce our heritage. The Red Guards destroyed anything that is not communist…statues, books and anything else," she continued. "We were also encouraged to report on each other, just like the Student Equity Ambassador program and the bias reporting system."

"This is indeed the American version of the Chinese Communist Cultural Revolution," she said. "The critical race theory has its roots in cultural Marxism. It should have no place in our school."

Following her scathing speech regarding critical race theory, Van Fleet walked off the stage to applause and cheers from fellow parents.

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"I just want Americans to know that their privilege is to be here living in America, that is just the biggest privilege," Van Fleet told Fox News on Wednesday. "I do not think a lot of people understand. They are thinking they are doing the right thing, 'be against racism' sounds really good. But they are basically breaking the system that is against racism."

"We were asked to report if we hear anything about someone saying anything showing that there's a lack of complete loyalty to Mao," she recalled. "There were people reporting their parents, and their parents ended up in jail."

The immigrant from China's Sichuan province said that critical race theory is an effort to transform classrooms into "indoctrination camps."

"To me, and to a lot of Chinese, it is heartbreaking that we escaped communism and now we experience communism here," Van Fleet said.

The Loudon County has been attacked by other parents in recent months.

Last month, parents launched an ad campaign to tackle the school system teaching the critical race theory and oust members who promoted the controversial ideology.

Also in May, a woman slammed the Loudoun County School Board for pushing CRT, and she compared it to a "tactic used by Hitler and the Ku Klux Klan on slavery very many years ago to dumb down my ancestors so we could not think for ourselves."

In January, an irate parent lambasted school officials for not reopening schools because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Christian physical education teacher, Byron "Tanner" Cross, was placed on administrative leave last month after he delivered a speech that declared "a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa because it's against my religion. It's lying to a child, it's abuse to a child, and it's sinning against our God." Cross was speaking at the Loudoun County school board meeting regarding new transgender policies.