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.
  • ageedizzle@piefed.caEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’m not old enough to remember the first one and I’m not American so I was never really caught up in the second one, so it is genuinely hard for me to understand why the CIA cared so deeply about Soviet artistic preferences that they conducted psyops to oppose them. I’m not doubting that it happened, it just seems bizarre to me

    • TronBronson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      It’s very bizarre. Like a mass psychosis. To be fair any idea you can summon sounds better than a nuclear war, so they did a lot of bizarre ideas.