Gloria Steinem got women to tie their gender identity to abortion and the aspiration of corporate success, rather than the low-wage work they were doing (and continue to do).
She successfully got rich women and their daughters to throw working class women under a bus. We could have had a feminism that made sure that working women were unionized and paid.
Instead, Steinem was paid to make sure your daughters wanted to be Sheryl Sandberg.
@NYCMayor@ZohranKMamdani It’s okay, men can take a seat on this one. No reason to show how “feminist” you are by speaking out about the death of a CIA agent tasked with turning public focus away from class consciousness and onto gender issues. She did a lot more harm than good.
Don’t let them re-write history: Gloria Steinem was a CIA asset who was tasked with subverting the feminist movement away from class-based analysis.
She founded the Independent Research Service that was funded by the CIA to spread anti-communist propaganda at youth festivals abroad.
When she was exposed as a CIA operative in 1967, Steinem confirmed her role to The New York Times without apology, claiming the CIA is “liberal, nonviolent, and honorable” and that she would do it again.
The CIA is one of the most violent organizations in history.
@SenSanders Come on, Bernie. She was a CIA agent who was told to move the public consciousness away from the class disparity issue and onto gender issues, and she succeeded. I’m a woman, and she did nothing to further what is most important…class consciousness.
@AbdulElSayed She was a CIA agent who was told to move the public consciousness away from class disparity and onto gender issues. And, she succeeded. Any true socialist would know this about her, but go on with your ridiculous praise to please the liberal establishment.
@StopAntisemites And the education that’s not being funded is literally “criticizing the Zionist state of Israel is not the same thing as criticizing Jews or Judaism.” It’s not antisemitic to criticize Israel, and the whole WORLD is tired of being told it is.
Reports from BBC, Guardian, Volkskrant and a UN inquiry document dozens of cases of children in Gaza with single gunshot wounds to the head or chest, based on doctors' accounts, forensics and some soldier statements, often linked to snipers or quadcopters. IDF denies deliberate targeting of civilians or children, attributes deaths to combat against Hamas embedded among them, and says incidents are reviewed. Yesh Din data shows under 1% of complaints against soldiers for West Bank killings lead to indictments, with virtually none since October 2023; Gaza combat probes yield few charges. This indicates highly permissive rules of engagement in practice with minimal accountability.
Evidence of over 73,000 deaths (high civilian share from demographics and IDF data leaks), widespread destruction of homes, hospitals and infrastructure creating unlivable conditions, plus repeated Israeli official statements dehumanizing Palestinians as a group and calling for Gaza's elimination or mass emigration supports genocidal acts and intent as the most likely reading. Wartime targeting of Hamas and aid flows provide counter-context but do not erase the pattern.
Congress did one and only one thing today.
The House passed a bill to withhold money from universities if they don’t play nice with Israel.
I voted No.
It’s not proper for our federal government to coerce universities into engaging with any particular foreign country.