I missed the sixties by about almost 20 years. This is what I don't get, the number of 60’s radicals who committed serious crimes, murders and acts of terrorism, either directly or were involved in conspiracies, who were accepted back into mainstream life, either in business or academia, without regard to their crime, and without repentance or penance.
Was the country so hurt by Vietnam and the civil rights unrest that they were willing to just give up saying the people who went to extremes (either way) have to be forgiven or have an excuse? I've asked this question time and time again, and I can't accept that is “all the liberals fault,” or that “if I wasn't there, I couldn't understand”.
I think you would have to look at the nature of the Institutions accepting them to get your answer.