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d_r

(6,907 posts) Wed Aug 1, 2012, 08:24 PM Aug 2012

There is right and there is wrong [View all]

It boggles my mind that people don't see what side of history they are on, but I honestly don't think some of them do. In this picture - I think these people 50 years ago thought they were standing up for good old fashioned family values. I don't think it is as simple as people are just stupid, I think it is cognitive dissonance or something.

But people make me sad sometimes.

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There is right and there is wrong [View all] d_r Aug 2012 OP

I remember those days very well. This picture makes me very sad. Booster Aug 2012 #1

Hatred is an acquired behavior. rug Aug 2012 #2

But it is acquired at a very early age... malthaussen Aug 2012 #3

+1 freshwest Aug 2012 #4

Don't short the effects of stupidity doohnibor Aug 2012 #5

Cognition has very little to do with it. bluerum Aug 2012 #6

last night our local PBS ran the show about songs of the civil rights movement rurallib Aug 2012 #7

That photo is ripe for a revisiting. It would be interesting to find some of those people standing Brickbat Aug 2012 #8

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