Pete Seeger bought a gong in China in 1972. FBI figured this was evidence he was a communist

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Wait, but Pete Seeger was a communist.

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Came here to say words to this effect. Pete Seeger was a hero… the problem isn’t with him, it’s with the way that ‘communist’ has become a curse in American.

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I went to high school towards the end of the Cold War. The school librarian was a retired army colonel. He put all the books about China in the fiction section, because the Chinese are Communists and we don’t believe in Communism.

Now I wish I could’ve brought a Chinese gong to school to show him.

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I wonder if it was a fallen gong?

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Oh no! I bought two xuns, a xiao, and a dizi when I was in China. I had no idea that that would forever mark me as ideologically impure.

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Not to defend the FBI, but since they were already of the opinion that Seeger was a communist, the clipping provides leads-- where did he go; whom did he meet, and so on?

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