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Pretty sure the protests during Vietnam were just as large, if not more so. Journalism finds a way, like internet, and genetically modified dinosaurs.
by cheschire 5y ago
Pretty sure the protests during Vietnam were just as large, if not more so.
Journalism finds a way, like internet, and genetically modified dinosaurs.
- quietbritishjim 5y ago> Pretty sure the protests during Vietnam were just as large That is the parent comment's point: there was more graphic coverage of the Vietnam available to a typical viewer, so the feeling against it was stronger.
- eurasiantiger 5y agoAnd then they had to criminalize drugs to have a publicly accepted reason to violently suppress the protests.
- pjc50 5y agoThe Iraq/Afghanistan war protests were large at the start, tapered off, and became a non-issue after a few years. Especially in the middle when we were "winning". Few care about the cost to Afghans. The cost to Westerners has been fairly well hidden from discussion.