1968 Again
Taki´s Magazine,
by
Theodore Dalrymple
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
6/26/2020 11:12:46 AM
I have never been quite able to make up my mind whether there is no new thing under the sun or whether we live in completely unprecedented times. When we look at events close up and nearby in time and place, we are inclined to think that nothing like them has ever happened before; but with the passage of time, and a little calm reflection, we find analogies all over the place.(Snip)I flicked through a large picture book of May 1968 in Paris, the upheaval of spoilt brats, by spoilt brats, for spoilt brats.(Snip)The students obviously liked to make a mess; it was, so to speak, their natural milieu, as
Reply 1 - Posted by:
dst4life 6/26/2020 11:55:45 AM (No. 457943)
Sorry, Teddy. It's not 1968. Why? The MSM no longer has many Walter Cronkites who are honest, fair and balanced. And police have been bullied into not taking action. And there was no 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision that has only caused us to devalue--as well as to take a calloused view of--human life. No, this is worse.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/26/2020 12:02:24 PM (No. 457958)
Oh if we'd only dreamt of smartphones in 1968. These Antifa punks in their cute little Ninja suits think they're scary.
They have not yet met scary. When they do they will haul ass trying to get away.
As I often say ," if that guy had a football he'd score a touchdown."
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/26/2020 12:07:10 PM (No. 457963)
I can’t believe that anyone alive in 1968 believes that Walter Cronkhite was honest, fair and balanced. He was just a classier-seeming version of what we have now, with a better voice and delivery. And he was a flaming liberal/globalist...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 6/26/2020 12:19:07 PM (No. 457990)
And unfortunately, those in charge of these riots won't go into their daddies businesses, they'll go into academia and the media to brainwash the next generation of our children.
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bpl40 6/26/2020 12:37:50 PM (No. 458016)
Sorry #1, but Walter Cronkite was hardly honest, fair and balanced. Knowing fully well that the North Vietnamese had lost the Tet offensive, on orders from his Eat Coast elitist bosses, he put on a helmet, climber on to the balcony of the Belvedere Hotel in Saigon and bluntly declared to the world that the US had lost the war. Such was his undeserved influence that the politicians back home headed for the hills. Supreme sacrifice of 56,000 gallant young men went down the drain. The irony is even today people (like you) still believe in the fraud.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/26/2020 2:13:52 PM (No. 458144)
#’s 3 and 5 are exactly right on Cronkite. He singlehandedly lost the Vietnam war. And the loss of American military lives in that war was 58,222. If there is any justice in the world, he is sitting next to Splash Kennedy in the Lake of Fire.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
dst4life 6/26/2020 3:18:09 PM (No. 458201)
#3, I dont think anyone could call me a Leftist, liberal, or someone who gives into "fraud." I was only 6 years old in 1968. I trusted someone else's opinion of Walter Cronkite. Perhaps I should judge for myself. However, something tells me he was a far cry from Don Lemon or Rachel Maddow, who are downright pathetic.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 6/26/2020 4:13:23 PM (No. 458250)
In 1968, we had terrible race riots, lots of burning and looting. And the crazies mostly extreme leftists, but some racists, too like the Black Panthers, formed up violent groups.
Simbionese Liberation Army, Weathermen/Weather Underground terrorists (now education specialists, destroying the country that way), and the SDS who did a lot of the harm at the Dem convention in 68.
FTA:
"They were earnest, but not serious; and earnestness combined with frivolity and armor-plated self-righteousness is not very attractive. Evidently, however, earnest frivolity is a permanent temptation of youth, which does not yet appreciate that deterioration as well as improvement is possible."
Some of this in '68, LOTS more now. Seems like most of the real troublemakers are white. Antifa thugs and many in these "protests" are idiot white kids. "earnest, but not serious".....perfect. I'll remember that turn of phrase.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/26/2020 4:55:18 PM (No. 458278)
I don’t recall accusing #1/7 of anything. I did have a hunch that they were too young to really understand what Cronkite really was about. I was right. Cronkite picked up an undeserved reputation that he could be trusted. He did more harm than Lemon or Maddow could ever manage. No one pays attention to them. Cronkite influenced the thinking of many people. He never should have been able to do so...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 6/26/2020 5:28:35 PM (No. 458319)
OMG #1 Walter Cronkite is one of the reasons why we lost in Vietnam. He was lying on television every single time he was on. He is probably guilty of many deaths during that conflict.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
or gate 6/26/2020 7:34:24 PM (No. 458489)
At least Vietnam knew we were there.
It was like the American tourist that got sick in country a few years back. The doctors told him "You Know Die Vietnam". They remember.
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