Zoomers Discover The Little Red Book as TikTok Faces Closure

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The hottest app out there is a TikTok clone--also from China--called Red Note in English, but the actual name in Chinese is The Little Red Book. 

As in Mao's Little Red Book. 

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In what may be the biggest self-own in world history, the banning of TikTok (of which I, in principle, approve because it is an intelligence operation by the Chinese Communist Party) has sent TikTok refugees fleeing to an even worse app controlled directly by the Chinese Communist Party. 

And its leftist users are discovering, just as they discovered not so long ago, that Osama bin Laden was a great guy and that China is the best country in the world. 

No, I am not joking. It is a thing. 

You may recall the rediscovery of Osama's "Letter to America" and how some deranged Zoomers glommed onto it as a work of genius. It was a more comprehensible manifesto and apparently even more intriguing version of the Unabomber's manifesto. Now, these same idiots have discovered that China is a paradise.

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It is a weird twist of irony, both because the US government accidentally created this flight to the Little Red Book, and because the US and state governments created and funds the execrable education system that opened these minds to the wonders of communism in the first place. 

Look to the public schools (many of which, you may not know, have taken money from China to fund Mandarin immersion schools) to understand why our younger set is all-in on commiedom. 

For the record, I hate commies. 

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Of course, there is a second irony--one that will be as invisible to these commie stooges but just as important: the Chinese want none of the idiotic and dangerous woke idiocy coming to their country. They are scrambling to prevent anybody with Western IPs to be visible to the Chinese people. 

The Queers for Palestine crowd, who not long ago were flocking to convert to Islam, are now finding an even more murderous and hostile regime to idolize. It's not the ideology that attracts them but the hatred of America and American values. 

Show them a regime or ideology that hates American values, and they flock to celebrate it. 

It's easy enough to blame the kids--and they do deserve some blame for adopting passionately any social or political opinion without learning a thing about it--but the fact is that our K-12 and higher education systems are even more to blame. They are the equivalent of reeducation camps, and you and I are paying for them. 

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China may be our most significant external threat, but the scariest threat to our future is right here at home. If you want to fight the real enemies of America, chances are you can find them at a local public school. 

Defund the schools, not the police. The communist propagandists who live right here in America paid for with our tax dollars, are the biggest threat our country faces. 

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