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theHRguy@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours ago

TIL: Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Was An Anti-Communist CIA Operative who Kept Feminism From Discussing Class

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TIL: Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Was An Anti-Communist CIA Operative who Kept Feminism From Discussing Class

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Declassified Cold War Ties Show How U.S. Intelligence Shaped Feminism’s Focus On Gender Over Class.
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    Looks like the link has some sharing metadata that should have been removed before sharing. This bit is completely unnecessary to access the article. Please edit it out.

    ?r=1t17zr&showWelcomeOnShare=true

    And the link written this way works better methinks. https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/feminist-icon-gloria-steinem-was

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    Gloria Steinem was paid $20k to speak/q&a at my school by an alumni committee and it was an hour of students just tearing her to shreds about what a money grubbing POS she was. It was great.

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    Feminists of the 70s did not give two fucks about intersectionality or helping the oppressed…they only cared about white women getting the same slice of the pie as white men.

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      she seems more anti-feminist than feminist, like how TERFs are.

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      White feminists*

      Black feminists wanted to talk about class and racism, it’s just the media didn’t give them a microphone to talk about it…

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      Continuing the tradition. The suffragette movement was tied to the civil rights movement. Until the white patriarchy promised white women the right to vote if they dumped the civil rights movement. Then the white women went “fyigm” and helped keep Jim Crow alive.

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      hmmm…this sounds very familiar… where have I heard of this type of person before…

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    Abstract expressionism (ie modern art) was actually pushed by the CIA as well (source), though the motivation in this case is murkier

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      Not really? Soviets were pushing hyper-realism so the US government funded the opposite

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        I didn’t know that. Either way it seems a bit odd that the CIA would care so deeply about matters of artistic taste

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          They didn’t. It was about opposing the Soviets everywhere more than anything

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    When Ramparts broke the story in 1967, Steinem confirmed her role to The New York Times without apology, describing the CIA as “liberal, nonviolent and honorable” and stating she would do it again.

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      Can we just talk about Rampart please?

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      Haha, what?

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    Why do humans suck so much?

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      Short sightedness

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    Steinem

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      The steal slim shady

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