My privilege rant. It bugs the hell out of me to read these

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84. All right I will. You can tell about what age, very roughly, that some people are by the way they

use today's context to describe things that happened before they were born.
The one that comes to mind is the debate about the Vietnam anti war protesters and whether they were liberals and progressives.

Back then we did not have the political divide we have today. So it is kind of irrelevant what a protester's politics was in the 60's and 70's. They all were against the war and most didn't see it as a liberal or conservative issue. We said we were anti-establishment.

The war was mostly promoted by Democrats until Nixon took over. The biggest two events were the Chicago police riots in 1968 and the Kent State massacre. One under a Democratic administration and one under a Republican one.

Yet I've seen Duers proudly claim that the 60's anti war protesters were a distant part of our progressive movement of today. They most certainly were not around when the events they define took place. Which led me to come up with the idea that history is not written by those who lived it but becomes what the majority thinks it is.