To finish the quote on her CIA relationship, since context is important:
In May 1975, Redstockings, a radical feminist group, published a report that Steinem and others put together on the Vienna Youth Festival and its attendees for the Independent Research Service.[112][113] Redstockings raised the question of whether Steinem had continuing ties with the CIA, which Steinem denied.[114] Steinem defended her relationship to the CIA, saying: “In my experience The Agency was completely different from its image; it was liberal, nonviolent and honorable.”
Honestly I figured the context would clear things up, but the rest of the quote makes her come off as an apologist for an organization known to play as dirty as the KGB, and especially during that era. However just because something is funded by an entity such as the CIA doesn’t always mean that the organization is part of, partner in, or even a willing partner with something like the CIA, same with the KGB or its descendants, espionage operates on leverage, and it all depends on what kind of hold you have over the “asset(s)”.
I think the Medium article is bullshit. It doesn’t provide anything more than the Wikipedia for its sources and all Wikipedia says is what you quoted. Direct organization funding by the CIA does not mean an employee is a CIA agent. Lots of DARPA projects that we use for radical things were made by radicals that vehemently opposed everything but government grants (many others were either agents or supporter; Surveillance Valley is a great read).
She’s totally a fucking stooge though. There’s no fucking way you say that about the CIA then (or in hindsight about then when she wrote her biography given all the other things that came out since then) without being a fucking stooge. I don’t think we can conclude anything more than that without more context, which I’ve yet to find.
You’re right that the coffee purchased by the CIA isn’t inherently evil just because it was bought with CIA dollars.
I’d guess 99% of the dollars spent by the CIA were for bad things, however.
I did too, and that’s why I went to what the source embarrassingly was, but yeah I’m in total agreement with you.
“In my experience The Agency was completely different from its image; it was liberal, nonviolent and honorable.”
I can hear blood-soaked Contras laughing from all the way over here.
Im not familiar with Medium, but I don’t recall the other things I’ve read there being vapid crap.
Medium is basically a public blogging platform — anyone can post whatever they want there with no editorial oversight.
I would say Medium is partially public. A few articles I’ve tried to access in the past have been behind a paywall.
Yes, always pay attention to the author.
Ah, that’s explains it.
It’s not an editorial outlet, it’s a platform that lets people publish their blogs. It’s the equivalent of substack, or blogger.
Thanks. Didn’t know that.
Thank you. That site is horrible. Here’s another site that discusses the topic in a favorable way. Not taking sides here, was just looking for another source.
This is awful article. I’d be curious to read about any role Steinem had with the CIA but this article has jack shit in it other than weird vague accusations based on one of her organizations receiving funding from the CIA at some point.
That’s not surprising at all. Mind you she failed, there’s anarcha feminism and Marxist feminism, but they’re branches of anarchism and Marxism respectively so maybe she didn’t fail.
She also was a major contributor to the satanic panic
Try looking up the correlation between the Occupy movement in '08 and the rise in race-based discussion in the media that came right afterwards ;)
Riiight… it cannot possibly be the white supremacism that’s so fundamental to US society - it must be the Alphabet agencies!
The white supremacists are willing idiots. I don’t doubt they were leveraged to inflame race relations, same way Russia took advantage of the BLM movement to create division.
how did russia use blm to their advantage?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_and_Black_Lives_Matter
Edit: just in case it needs to be explained, any infighting amongst their enemies is advantageous to Russia.
I wonder if russia might be doing the same thing with pro Palestine activism?
