struggle session
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Etymology
Noun
struggle session (plural struggle sessions)
- (historical) A form of public humiliation used by China in the Maoist period to shape public opinion and to humiliate or persecute political rivals.
- 1998, Lowell Dittmer, Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84:
- On January 8, Zhou Enlai noted, “You and your friends have come to Zhongnanhai [Liu’s official residence] ... and dragged out Liu and Deng many times.¹²⁴ Yet after a break-in and 40-minute struggle session at his home in Zhongnanhai on January 3 and Wang’s public struggle session on January 6, Liu was granted what would be his last chance to see the chairman. At midnight, January 13, Mao sent his secretary in a nondescript auto to bring Liu to the Great Hall of the People for a talk.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:struggle session.
- (by extension, figurative) A meeting in which people who disagree with a preferred ideology are humiliated or bullied.
- 2023, Asra Q. Nomani, Woke Army:
- Look at K-12 indoctrination to see how the Woke Army is racializing every issue and turning classrooms into ideological indoctrination centers, and faculty and staff training into struggle sessions, […]
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