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LongTomH

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4. I remember Kent State....and the horrible way people reacted!

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Thu May 4, 2017, 12:18 PM

May 2017

So many thought the students "got what was coming to them!!!" The conservative commentators in Tulsa's right-wing rags weren't any better; they just used more 'polite' language; conservatives are really good at finding genteel ways to say really horrible things.

Sadly, Mary Ann Vecchio got the same treatment that the young men shot by police received decades later. Her run-ins with the law for minor offenses were trotted out, and to some that seemed to make her horror at Jeffrey Miller's death less than genuine. The right wing really hasn't changed in all these decades.

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Kent State--4 May 1970 [View all] niyad May 2017 OP

Ohio Zoonart May 2017 #1

It still sends a chill down my body... sheshe2 May 2017 #2

K&R. dchill May 2017 #3

I remember Kent State....and the horrible way people reacted! LongTomH May 2017 #4

the reichwing has gotten more powerful, more open, more dangerous, more contemptuous, niyad May 2017 #5

k&r TDale313 May 2017 #6