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> the public polls and reaction after Kent State That was shocking for me too. In high school, we were taught that kent state was a significant event that galv
by eighthnate 9y ago
> the public polls and reaction after Kent State
That was shocking for me too. In high school, we were taught that kent state was a significant event that galvanized the public to end the vietnam war. It made it seemed like 99% of americans were appalled by it. I had no idea that nearly 60% approved of the shooting.
> and Mai Lie astounded me
Yeah, it just shows that all the political talk about how good/kind/generous/decent americans are is just nonsense. I wish our politicians would stop it with the american exceptional lies already. We are people like any other. There are good and bad. We aren't saints. Also, how low were these people that they defended the murder of infants?
- knz 9y agoIt also shocked me to learn that the Army threatened to open fire again after the initial shooting (the emotion in the Geology professor's voice as he pleads with the students to disperse or be killed is incredible). My school teacher taught that it was a horrible accident and provided no context of the disdain that many had for the anti-war/civil rights movement. Much of the narrative and imagery of this episode could be ripped out the headlines today - "half" of the country approving of unarmed protesters being shot, hate mail directed at the parents of dead, images of cars driving into protesters blocking roads, and an attempt to portray all protestors as violent.