jbrown72073 at cs.com wrote:
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> a lot of people on the left don't seem to know anyone in the military and figure they're all right-wing nuts and/or war criminals.
A "lot of people" is both a large and a vague category. I know a number of vets, and taught a number of combat vets back in the late '60s and early '70s. I was in the U.S. Air Force and worked on Czech Borderguard traffic at NSA during the Korean War. Half my grad school friends were vets. (My son made the mistake of joining the marine reserves & got called up & sent to the Gulf War. Before his marine experience he'd pretended his parents' politics didn't exist; after it he became very interested.) Also, I've known at least a couple thousand "leftists" from all over the nation in the last 35 years, and only _three_ of them (a stupid hippie & a couple weathermen) had contempt for enlisted military.
I know that "PC" was a (mostly humorous) internal criticism in the women's movement of the '70s (and it goes back to cracks about "correct-lineism" in the '60s and '70s), but sometimes one just has to accept that a hijacking has really worked and give up on the term hijacked. PC is, I believe, an instance. Its use will always be ambiguous.
Carrol