It’s not hard to imagine that the officer who gave the order to fire on unarmed students protesting at Kent State is one of Pete Hegseth’s greatest heroes.
This image is a Rorschach test. Do you see compassion and outrage at abuse of power? Or do you see…something else (I find it hard to imagine what upset her critics; maybe an absence of unquestioning patriotism?)? I was a kid at the time, moved overwhelmingly by both the CSNY song and this image. In time, a majority came to understand the point the protesters were making, even if they wouldn’t admit to it, and to see the president’s corruption. As now, it’s hard to understand how people can witness the senseless loss of life at the hands of armed domestic forces and not see what the rest of us do.
Same for me. Kent is my hometown and I was 17. My brother was on the Kent State campus. I felt like the blinders had been removed and I started seeing the world very differently. I’m still a loudmouth who attends protests.
I remember it very well. My 3 older siblings were teens at the time and protested. It hit close to home. It seemed unfathomable. The constitution was supposed to protect unarmed protesters. Every day, the youth was vilified. Hippy Commies, they said. They were anything but. Socialism, Peace and love is not communism. The government was doing the brainwashing of the country we all love, and, sadly, still is.
I was a college sophomore. Word of the Kent State killings swept across campus (1970 -- no cell phones, no Internet) and that evening virtually the entire student body turned out on the college green and voted to strike - as did schools across the country. I spent the rest of the semester canvassing door-to-door to talk with people about the war. It changed my life...
Even at 11 it changed me forever. Thank goodness my parents were honest enough to abhor what happened and to tell me the truth about why it was so awful. They distrusted the leaders of the time and thought the war was a tragic waste of life and resources, despite their suburban environment. This photo and that song haunt me, because it’s happened all over again so many times since, it’s heartbreaking to live a whole lifetime and see so little change.
Oops. The subtitle in the email said May 2.
Well shit! Fucking mistakes happen!!
Oops.
It’s not hard to imagine that the officer who gave the order to fire on unarmed students protesting at Kent State is one of Pete Hegseth’s greatest heroes.
This image is a Rorschach test. Do you see compassion and outrage at abuse of power? Or do you see…something else (I find it hard to imagine what upset her critics; maybe an absence of unquestioning patriotism?)? I was a kid at the time, moved overwhelmingly by both the CSNY song and this image. In time, a majority came to understand the point the protesters were making, even if they wouldn’t admit to it, and to see the president’s corruption. As now, it’s hard to understand how people can witness the senseless loss of life at the hands of armed domestic forces and not see what the rest of us do.
All that hatred directed towards her, just to show support for a corrupt government so you can feel patriotic.
Sounds so very modern day republican.
They have always been this way, it appears.
Yes, at least in my lifetime.
This was the moment my teenage political naivety died. I was 16. I was never the same.
Same for me. Kent is my hometown and I was 17. My brother was on the Kent State campus. I felt like the blinders had been removed and I started seeing the world very differently. I’m still a loudmouth who attends protests.
I remember it very well. My 3 older siblings were teens at the time and protested. It hit close to home. It seemed unfathomable. The constitution was supposed to protect unarmed protesters. Every day, the youth was vilified. Hippy Commies, they said. They were anything but. Socialism, Peace and love is not communism. The government was doing the brainwashing of the country we all love, and, sadly, still is.
I was a college sophomore. Word of the Kent State killings swept across campus (1970 -- no cell phones, no Internet) and that evening virtually the entire student body turned out on the college green and voted to strike - as did schools across the country. I spent the rest of the semester canvassing door-to-door to talk with people about the war. It changed my life...
And just like now the media pushed the official line, violent protesters, national guard acting in self defence.
Four dead in Ohio. That song radicalized hundreds of thousands of us. We became the spear of ANTIFA. And we’re still here.
Yup I'm still here
If memory serves, only two of the students murdered by the OHNG were protesters. The other two were just kids on their way to class.
My political awakening occurred as a result of those shootings.
Absolutely true for many of us.
Even at 11 it changed me forever. Thank goodness my parents were honest enough to abhor what happened and to tell me the truth about why it was so awful. They distrusted the leaders of the time and thought the war was a tragic waste of life and resources, despite their suburban environment. This photo and that song haunt me, because it’s happened all over again so many times since, it’s heartbreaking to live a whole lifetime and see so little change.
That image still breaks my heart.
Hitchhiking from Florida to Ohio at the age of fourteen. That tells you she is a warrior.
That song has been running through my head since ice started running through out streets.
Fucking Nixon, he was such a hippie hater because the young people saw through his evil.