Posted on 06/27/2018 11:16:04 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
On the civility debate and forgetting the ’70s.David Gergen, the genial centrist wiseman whose has served as high counsellor to presidents of both parties, argued on CNN on Monday night that the recent surge of anti-Trump protests was disruptive than the political protests of the 1960s and 1970s. “It is extraordinarily divisive,” Gergen said. The anti-war movement in Vietnam, the civil rights movement in the 1960s and early ’70s, both of those were more civil in tone. Even the anti-war movement was more civil in tone but certainly the civil rights movement among the people who were protesting.”
Nor is Gergen alone in thinking this. Politico ran an article arguing that “In the Donald Trump era, the left is as aggressively confrontational as at any time in recent memory.”
These claims are so at odds with easily verifiable history that it’s hard to know what to do with them. Historians have taken to Twitter to document just how wrong it is to remember the 1960s and 1970s as a period of greater civility.
As Harvard University’s Stuart Schrader noted, between 1965 and 1970 there were 1,391 bombings, shootings and attacks in the United States, many of them outgrowths of the anti-war movement and civil rights struggle:
Since every historian on earth is currently refuting that guy on TV who said the movement against the Vietnam War was “civil,” allow me to join the party with this table, published in 1971: 1,391 bombings, shootings, or other attacks in 6 years. And the peak was yet to come.~ Stuart SchraderVerified account @stschrader1
Bombings were alarming common in the era:
Angus JohnstonVerified account @studentactivism
This afternoon I went looking in the NYT archives for info on left-wing bombings in the US in the late sixties and early seventies. They were really common. Like multiple times a week for years in a row common.
Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry
You got heckled at a restaurant?
Dean Rusk appeared in San Francisco and was greeted by 400 people chanting “Dean Rusk: Wanted for Murder.”
Then they hurled “rocks, eggs, and blood-filled balloons” at the hotel where he was speaking.
The rewriting of history to make current protests seem like outliers is based on a complete whitewashing not just of history but of memory. After all, David Gergen was born in 1942 so he was an adult all through the 1960s. But he’s chosen to willfully forget the period he lived through in order to bash contemporary protesters.
That is Gergn’s forte.
Who are these demons! omg.
Divisive is what the leftists are all about (except for their own power)
disrupt and destroy all institution and trust is their planned path to power.
That will likely be their epitaph.
Yet.
“Weather Underground”
The antifa of the 60s - founded by Obama’s pal and the ghost writer of his fairytale.
...”Divisive is what the leftists are all about (except for their own power)
disrupt and destroy all institution and trust is their planned path to power.
That will likely be their epitaph.”...
And, a major tool is the re-writing of history to fit their goals. Our government schools and academia have been doing that literally since these 1960-70 years. Some of us do not need history books to know what went on then and, to know, that today, some of the worst offenders of that day are (if not retired with a big pension) teaching in some of our colleges today. What can a nation expect when that is the case?
The civil rights movement had elements of Christianity which mellowed the socialist aspects. To put it another way, King was the one person who was able to ally the Christian followers of Booker T. Washington and the socialist followers of W.E.B. Dubois. That is the only reason the civil rights movement was civil. When King died, the alliance died with him.
Gergin’s a double digit IQ idiot.
Maybe we should make all of those places “no bombs allowed” safe places. That will make sure no one bombs them. Ha ha.
Before it became my go-to weather website. :))
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ATOMIC_PUNK wrote:
“Be careful out there”
When was that ad posted?
And the “people” at the center of those actions back in the late 60s and through much of the 70s are much of the “leadershop” of the left now. Hillarity and billary werer both red diaper doper babies in the vanguard of the rioters of the day of course.
Me too! Hope there’s no connection to Ayers!
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