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In reply to the discussion: You Tell Us: When Did The Spirit Of The '60s End? [View all]coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)34. No argument here. No one should ever die from gunfire aimed at them by
their own government. So many illusions perished in the 60s. So much death and destruction. (Let's not forget the 1,000,000+ southeast Asians killed in the various civil wars in Asia.)
Interesting side note: when various Occupy encampments were being smashed by the pigs and occupiers brutalized and mistreated, some of my African American acquaintances here, while sympathetic, were saying that Occupiers were learning what AAs had long known about whose interests the police actually serve. Kind of echoes your point, I think.
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Which shows a certain lack of imagination and naive belief in white middle-class priviledge,
FarCenter
May 2012
#29
No argument here. No one should ever die from gunfire aimed at them by
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#34
I agree. That only made us more determined. For me the end of our hopes came when RFK was
jwirr
May 2012
#38
Until I personally witnessed the Occupy Los Angeles encampment last fall, I
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#59
I am watching them closely and still have hope that they will be able to pull us together. However,
jwirr
May 2012
#67
Don't even get me started on that union-busting red-baiting son of a bitch Reagan. Also,
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#72
It hasn't ended. Anyone who tries to tell you differently is blind to the changes...
Scuba
May 2012
#3
People who wonder if protest works don't notice we got pretty much every damn thing we fought for.
aquart
May 2012
#18
That's my thought as well. Throughout the 70s you could at least kid yourself that things would
HiPointDem
May 2012
#62
The fact that in todays America "Dirty Fucking" most always precedes "Hippie"...
stlsaxman
May 2012
#19
Those people took off their orange jumpers, smoked reefer, and had sex with each other,
leveymg
May 2012
#21
Excellent point. The period was certainly not a monolith. But do you think
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#24
It's important because of the coming of age of a large cohort of the dominant socioeconomic group
FarCenter
May 2012
#57
Yeah, I totally get what you're saying. I still can't help feeling it as an
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#58
Or the 60s IN Vietnam? Or the 60s in Africa - the one experienced by Patrice Lumbumba?
Taverner
May 2012
#74
From April 4 to June 6, 1968. The finest visionaries of that generation had their brains blown out.
Selatius
May 2012
#64
Bobby Kennedy is the best example of how things and people evolve. IIRC, RFK started out with
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#75