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97. We anti-war activists did NOT end the War in Viet Nam. It boggles my mind whenever I hear that meme

Fri Feb 21, 2014, 11:33 AM

Feb 2014

repeated over and over again. We tried like hell to end it... but we failed. The war ended because the Viet Cong won. That is a fact.

However, while your criticisms of middle class white privilege may have a certain level of merit, your cheap shots with regards to the counter-culture of the times irresponsibly disregards a great deal of honorable sincerity with those who actually put their bodies on the front lines of the Police State apparatus and paid a brutal price, sometimes with their lives.

You also repeat a false narrative, and a very demeaning one.

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