1. El Legado Persistente de la Guerra de Vietnam.
La Guerra de Vietnam es el punto central de la memoria colectiva, recordada por las protestas masivas, la división familiar y los trágicos eventos como la masacre de Kent State. Muchos participantes de la época ven los conflictos actuales como un eco de esa era, destacando la importancia de la disidencia pacífica y el alto costo humano de la guerra.
- I was a teen in the 1960s. I keep flashing back to the four assassinations and protesting the vietnam war, my next-door neighbor who died in vietnam, my friend who died from agent orange cancer.
- Reminds me of the vietnam war era. Gotta be careful though. Back then another twisted republican ordered the shooting of college kids at the kent state masacre.
- The vietnam anti-war movement was one of the most pervasive displays of opposition to the government policy in modern times.
- The war in viet nam killed 55k american soldiers. The govt war at home is far worse than what happened in the 60s.
- I remember clearly how the vietnam war, and police action against protesters of the war, turned most of the country against the military and law enforcement for decades.
2. Generaciones en Conflicto y el Rol de los Boomers.
Existe una fuerte crítica a la generación Baby Boomer, acusada de traicionar sus ideales antibélicos y de derechos civiles para convertirse en "capitalistas de alto rango" o figuras políticas divisivas. Sin embargo, muchos Boomers defienden su activismo pasado y continúan protestando hoy, señalando que las divisiones generacionales sobre política, especialmente durante Vietnam, siempre han existido.
- I think something snapped in the boomers. I had a stepfather who served as a medic in vietnam. He came back, moved to california, protested the war, smoked dope, lived in a teepee and looked exactly like john lennon. Then came 911 and the ptsd. Full on tea party maga from there on out.
- Boomers come from a generation where protests helped promote civil rights end the vietnam war.
- The boomers went from hippies that hated war, to proto fascist corporate weasels that love money and power.
- Dont blame boomers so hard.we struggled and marched against the vietnam war and for civil rights. Yes, some became rank capitalists but they would have anyway.
- Its always the silent generation, too young to truly know the cost of war but old enough to have benefitted from the postwar economic boom. Political parasites stealing opportunity from the next generation.
3. El Activismo Contemporáneo y la Resistencia a Nuevas Guerras.
Las generaciones más jóvenes (Millennials y Gen Z) son vistas como herederas de las luchas pasadas, enfrentándose a nuevas crisis como la Guerra de Irak, el cambio climático y el ascenso del autoritarismo (MAGA). El activismo actual, especialmente contra la guerra de Gaza y el régimen, se compara con la intensidad de los movimientos de los años 60, reafirmando que la protesta masiva es un motor de cambio.
- My generation were sent to die in iraq and afghanistan for a war based on lies started by a boomer who dodged the draft.
- Jesus, its the vietnam war for millennials. Theyll be clawing at each other in nursing homes over this decades from now.
- Looks like we are going to be protesting another vietnam war only it will involve a lot more innocent people and an even more evil and out of control regime.
- The woah is that more people are activated right now against government interests than probably any other time since the vietnam war and mid-20th cent. Civil rights movement.
- Protests do work history is clear on that. But i feel we need a very clear ask. No kings is symbolic, but not focused enough. Vietnam war protests obviously were about ending the war.