I just saw someone say that students protesting the Vietnam War were far less disruptive and destructive than students in the Palestine Solidarity Movement.
Student anti-war activists in the 60s and early 70s burned or bombed nearly one hundred campus buildings with military ties.
Student anti-war activists in the 60s and early 70s burned or bombed nearly one hundred campus buildings with military ties.
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IMHO;
As bad as that may sound, I think 'justifiably' would be appropriate.
I think Boomers distrust protests because of those memories, and therefore are eager to shut any protest down
My father was in SDS and arrested a few times, in fact
Left shortly after they started using crudely designed explosive devices
It's just that sometimes (safely after the fact), when the protests worked, they get remembered as being righteous all along. See also MLK and how (white) Americans polled about the Civil RIghts movement before 1970 or so.
We barely had a democracy that close to the "end" of Jim Crow
History is rhyming.
B) people inclined to vote for racists were going to do so anyway
C) voting was still heavily restricted and suppressed for Black Americans, ergo it was not a democratic election
That's vile. No wonder he regrets it now. 😡
This person cannot have made a very careful study of the period.
Guys coming back from Vietnam were called baby killers.
I do not want to live through that.
The thing is that you very explicitly said that "people were mean to the soldiers" was among the cruelest moments in history. Meaning it is on the same level as the other cruelest moments in history.
And it's just that I don't think those are comparable. One is worse.
(Actually, the person who named the website was from the same state, and he later read up on them and rather regretted the fact that he named it for a terrorist organization.)
https://youtu.be/JCS-g3HwXdc?si=d84oKoqfRh-d9oLa