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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
I’ve never heard of the red and black categories. Could you expand?
gpt
The red and black categories were basically positive and negative political identities that the Chinese citizens were sorted into. The red ones were poor peasants, workers, revolutionaries, soldiers and martyrs, and the black ones were rich peasants, landlords, counter-revolutionaries, bad influencers and right-wingers. One of the main purposes of the Red Guards was to groom kids (and get them to groom each other) into abandoning black identities and adopting red ones instead.