theHRguy@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agoTIL: Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Was An Anti-Communist CIA Operative who Kept Feminism From Discussing Classopen.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1178arrow-down15
arrow-up1173arrow-down1external-linkTIL: Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Was An Anti-Communist CIA Operative who Kept Feminism From Discussing Classopen.substack.comtheHRguy@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareArcher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·7 hours agoNot really? Soviets were pushing hyper-realism so the US government funded the opposite
minus-squareageedizzle@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·7 hours agoI didn’t know that. Either way it seems a bit odd that the CIA would care so deeply about matters of artistic taste
minus-squareArcher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 hours agoThey didn’t. It was about opposing the Soviets everywhere more than anything
minus-squareageedizzle@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 minutes agoYes but the extent to which they’d go to oppose the Soviets even on trivial matters seems silly
Not really? Soviets were pushing hyper-realism so the US government funded the opposite
I didn’t know that. Either way it seems a bit odd that the CIA would care so deeply about matters of artistic taste
They didn’t. It was about opposing the Soviets everywhere more than anything
Yes but the extent to which they’d go to oppose the Soviets even on trivial matters seems silly