I was reading this article in some San Francisco newspaper when I came across:
"She
who bursts upon the scene as new news very quickly departs the scene as
old news, and for the same reasons, said Todd Gitlin, a 1960s activist
who's now an author and Columbia University journalism and sociology
professor."
If you were around a· college campus during the '60s, chances are
you walked into the Student Union one day, and were confronted by a
wild eyed radical manning a card table in the lobby.· North
Vietnamese flags, and pictures of Ho Chi Minh were the decor.·
Copies of the Daily Worker, and brochures condemning the United States, the fare.· This was SDS
(Students for a Democratic Society).· In 1965, SDS was the
vanguard of· dope smoking, maggot infected hordes who, in· my
opinion,· were the nascent cancer, now in full bloom, infecting
American education today. Every anti-war utterance, every argument,
every phrase, and technique, used by today's anti-war activists, had its
genesis here.· I remember wondering how this freak could get away
with what was tantamount to treason back then?· Still do.·
Todd Gitlin, called "1960's activist," in the article, was
president of the SDS.· He teaches journalism at
Columbia.·
In his book about the spread of radical Islam,
The
West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations? , Tony Blankley proposes that· "The
day is upon us when the West will have to decide which it values more:
granting these rights and tolerance to those who wish to destroy us, or
the survival of Western civilization."· Too bad this discussion wasn't held in the 1960's, because there is scant difference between the two evils.
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