BS. There were 3 TV networks and that’s all you’re talking about. Flat Earth Society was founded in the 50s. The Moon Landing was being called a fake almost immediately. Red scares in the 30’s through 50s were full of paranoid conspiracies. Trump named his movement after the delusional America First movement from the 40s.
All fringe groups. You’re making my point.
Wrong. Just didn’t make the network news. The only difference today is the 24 hour cable and internet news. That stuff used to be in small newspapers and newsletters which barely exist anymore, but which most of the people read back then. If you think “average American” back then agreed on Truth more than they do now, you are delusional.
And because of Derrida and his contemporaries? OMG no. Jesus. Talk about fringe. Too much Jordan Peterson for you.
I know you haven’t been to college in the last forty years, but subjectivity is all they teach in the humanities. NYK.
I graduated 30 years ago. My wife got a PhD from UC Irvine and went to some of Derrida’s classes.
It’s all coming together. 30 years, fine. Same deal.
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I have one child in college and one graduated last year. I get a pretty good picture. I also spend a lot of time with young knuckleheads online.
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Was there a shared experience with regard to racial oppression and the need for social progress on civil rights? Because history portrays that as pretty damn contentious, just as it remains today.
Or shared understanding of whether we should be sending boys to die in Vietnam? Because I remember that as pretty contentious.
There’s nothing like a bigger common “bad guy” to unite disagreeing factions and those times had the Nazis and then the Soviets to pull the country together in opposition. But it wasn’t some lack of moral relativism, it was just the times in history.
The biggest strikes in US history were at the end of WW2, starting before the war was over, and late 40s and early/mid 50s had more than a dozen strikes with over 300k people participating. What reactionaries do is they pretend that some period in history they want to return to was all peaches and cream.
Because we were far more segregated into groupthink before the internet, despite people thinking the opposite. That’s why you (not the general you) never heard people talking about the USA propaganda machine when you were younger
NMW thinks most people liked MLK. We’ve been through this before with him.
Obviously that was much more fraught due to being closer to slavery and in Jim Crow. There has been tremendous progress in civil rights over the last several decades—although the left would say things have never been worse.
No they wouldn’t say that, just Stfu, gonna have to ignore two people in two days
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I did philosophy for 8 years. I don’t think anyone ever mentioned Derrida in class, though he did come up in some upper-division sociology classes I took for a minor.
It’s his Obamacare
I don’t think the US or other countries can do anything to push Israel while Netanyahu is PM.
The U.S., Egypt and Qatar are pushing Israel and Hamas to join a phased diplomatic process that would start with a release of hostages and, eventually, lead to a withdrawal of Israeli forces and an end to the war in Gaza, diplomats involved in mediating the talks said.
Taher Al-Nono, a media adviser to Hamas, said there was no real progress. After The Wall Street Journal’s report, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that he rejected Hamas’s demands because they included an end to the war.