Mickey Z

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Sunday, October 15, 2006

Today, I'm actually defending the protest crowd

I recently came across this eloquent post at Craig’s List:

Protesters are just a bunch of spoiled rich kids or hippies who have to much free time and need to get jobs. Bunch of fucking idiots!! Liberal Fucks wasting time!! God you fucks piss me off!!! 9 times out of 10 you don’t even know the subject of the protest. Cindy Sheehan and people like her need to DIE!!!!!!

For the sake of historical clarification:

“The antiwar movement has been so thoroughly discredited,” says author H. Bruce Franklin. “One would never be able to guess from public discourse that for every American veteran of combat in Vietnam, there must be twenty veterans of the antiwar movement.”

One reason for this is the media distortion of who opposes war. Protest is portrayed as a hobby for affluent white college students...a slight detour on the road to Yuppiedom. Not true, says Franklin: “A Gallup poll in January 1971 showed that 60 percent of those with a college education favored withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam, 75 percent of those with a high school education favored withdrawal, and 80 percent of those with only a grade school education favored withdrawal.”