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Question for those around for the 60s protests
Posted on 5/2/19 at 7:36 pm
Posted on 5/2/19 at 7:36 pm
Were those protesters pussies like the ones we have today? Just watched the Antifa thug arrested with the girl yelling about pronouns. Was it much the same back then?
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Posted on 5/2/19 at 7:37 pm to anc
Flower Power. 
Posted on 5/2/19 at 7:40 pm to anc
Those protests were way more violent. The cops had no problem wading into the protest swinging their night sticks.
Today both sides are pretty tame. Antifa are children. They are too soft.
Today both sides are pretty tame. Antifa are children. They are too soft.
Posted on 5/2/19 at 7:40 pm to anc
Wasn't there, but I'm pretty sure the police would have turned the hoses on anyone wailing on about gender identity, and they would have been absolutely justified in doing so.
Posted on 5/2/19 at 7:41 pm to anc
I was a little kid at the time. I think they just wanted to not bathe and frick.
Posted on 5/2/19 at 7:44 pm to anc
This is a great question for creedthoughts.com.org
Posted on 5/2/19 at 7:47 pm to anc
They were too stoned and mellowed out to be violent. Except for the Chicago hippies of ‘68. They would get a lick or two in before getting their arse kicked.
Posted on 5/2/19 at 7:47 pm to anc
The 1968 Democratic Convention protest against the Vietnam War was pretty ugly.
Posted on 5/2/19 at 7:47 pm to anc
quote:
Were those protesters pussies like the ones we have today?
No.
Posted on 5/2/19 at 7:50 pm to anc
They knew how to do domestic terrorism, at least, instead of being blowhard figs.
Posted on 5/2/19 at 7:53 pm to anc
quote:Which ones? Civil rights? Church bombings, Watts fire, Detroit Riots or the Vietnam protests? Vietnam protests were violent at times but mostly it was large crowds and sit ins. Didn't you see Forest Gump?
Question for those around for the 60s protests
Posted on 5/2/19 at 7:54 pm to HempHead
Protests like Bill Ayers?
Posted on 5/2/19 at 8:01 pm to Gray Tiger
quote:
Those protests were way more violent. The cops had no problem wading into the protest swinging their night sticks.
Let’s not forget that an assignation attempt was made against Republican congressional leadership in 2017.
That said, overall I agree the 60s-70s were more violent and the violence wasn’t limited to the police swing at “hippies”. There violence against “the pigs”. Also, a forgotten piece of Louisiana history is the Senate area of the capital building was bombed in 1970. I don’t think anyone was hurt because it was done while no one was in the chamber.
Posted on 5/2/19 at 8:01 pm to anc
No, they were way more violent with more anger! It was a disrupted time in our nation's history.
Posted on 5/2/19 at 8:04 pm to CajunTiger92
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the 60s-70s were more violent
The Kent State protest shootings was a defining moment for protests during that period.
Posted on 5/2/19 at 8:14 pm to anc
I’ll repeat what I wrote in a thread below: you ought to read Days of Rage.
The college hippie movement was full of a bunch of flakes, but there was an element around back then that was no joke. Not anything like today. Antifa and their ilk are soft little babies compared to some of those groups around then.
The college hippie movement was full of a bunch of flakes, but there was an element around back then that was no joke. Not anything like today. Antifa and their ilk are soft little babies compared to some of those groups around then.
Posted on 5/2/19 at 8:29 pm to Traveler
Indeed. We had three major political figures, one a POTUS, assassinated within a 5 year period. I was a kid then, I’m sure for the adults it seemed like the country was coming apart at the seams.
Posted on 5/2/19 at 8:37 pm to AbuTheMonkey
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The college hippie movement was full of a bunch of flakes, but there was an element around back then that was no joke.
The Weather Underground, The SDS(students for a democratic society), Black Panthers, etc. had no qualms about bombing a building to send a message. Also compared to today, they were all anti-government oppression and any limits on freedom speech, they would never have believed that one day something like "hate speecH" would exist.
Posted on 5/2/19 at 8:41 pm to CajunTiger92
I saw the change in my dad, who at one time was a supporter of the war in SE Asia and a WW2 vet. Like many others, he began to realize we had no chance of winning the war over there and over here.
He had real concerns about the direction this country was headed and those that would lead it.
He had real concerns about the direction this country was headed and those that would lead it.
Posted on 5/2/19 at 8:44 pm to EA6B
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The Weather Underground, The SDS(students for a democratic society), Black Panthers, etc. had no qualms about bombing a building to send a message
And this was done without social media. Can you imagine what they could have done with that?
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