Spitting on soldiers
posted by Infidel753 at 6:26 AM
08 February 2007
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2 Comments:
Barbara O'Brien has something to say on this issue:
Righties can’t let go of the stories about antiwar protesters spitting on soldiers during the Vietnam era...
[S]ociologist [Jerry Lembcke] did not, I believe, claim that no antiwar protester ever spit on a soldier. His research focused on a particular spitting narrative...
[The Right has constructed a] false dichotomy that in those days the Left was antiwar and anti-military and hated the troops, and the Right was prowar and pro-military and supported the troops. It wasn’t that simple. For one thing, as the war turned sour many hawks blamed the soldiers for being slackers and drug addicts...
Further, as the war continued the enlistees were increasingly against the war themselves...
In any event, by 1970-71 or so it was the returning veterans themselves keeping the antiwar movement alive...
The question was whether or not this particular form of disgusting behavior did or did not happen. If it's conceded that it did, that answers the question. Treating returning veterans that way was and is unforgivable, regardless of whether somebody is trying to "focus" on a "narrative" or otherwise move the goalposts.
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