President Joe Biden seemingly gave another nod to Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong during his keynote address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
“There’s a saying …’Women hold up half the world.’ It’s an absolutely stupid position not to make sure sure they represent at least half of what we do,” Biden said during his address while celebrating the academy’s graduating class being over one-third female.
At the Coast Guard Academy graduation, @JoeBiden alludes to a Chinese saying: “Women hold up half the world.”
The phrase comes from a proclamation by Chairman Mao in which the Chinese communist dictator declared “women hold up half the sky.” pic.twitter.com/VX1kV2wz6e
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 19, 2021
Biden’s phrasing was extremely similar to a Mao quote about women being part of the labor force, with Mao saying “women hold up half the sky.”
It’s not the first time Biden has quoted Mao. He used the exact quote after announcing Vice President Kamala Harris would be his running mate and added that his administration would “look like the people, look like the country.”
BIDEN AGAIN QUOTES COMMUNIST DICTATOR MAO ZEDONG DURING INTERVIEW WITH ABC NEWS
“Fifty-one percent of the people in this country are women,” Biden said in August. “As that old expression goes, ‘women hold up half the sky.’”
He also used the phrase in July when discussing economic relief.
“We’ve got to get real economic relief into women’s hands now,” Biden said. “Women hold up half the sky.”
Mao’s influence is also present in Biden’s inner circle, with campaign senior adviser Anita Dunn admitting the communist dictator was one of her “favorite political philosophers” in 2009.
“Mao Zedong said, ‘You fight your war, and I’ll fight mine,’” Dunn said to graduating high school students at the time. “Think about that for a second. You don’t have to accept the definition of how to do things, and you don’t have to follow other people’s choices and paths. You fight your own war. You lay out your own path.”
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While a fierce advocate of allowing women to join the labor force, Mao’s Great Leap Forward policy may have been responsible for as many as 45 million deaths in China.
