[lbo-talk] no dissent, we're Americans!

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Jun 2 15:34:45 PDT 2003


Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> R wrote:
>
> >how far back does your memory go? if you're old enough, haven't you noticed
> >some change from the days of edward r morrow to today, nationally?
>
My memory goes back to about 1942 -- and I really haven't noticed much change -- except that fewer blacks are lynched in the south -- and more, perhaps, are murdered by the police in the north. I did not _once_ see any reference, during the Korean War, in any newspaper or on any radio or tv program, of the existence of an anti-war movement (and, as I discovered a couple decades later, there had been a fairly lively one). When I began opposing the Vietnam War in the mid '60s I still assumed (and had never seen anything to the contrary in any publication) that the Korean War had been a "good war."

If there has been any change it has probably been for the better in fact.

No one in the media attacked McCarthy until he attacked Eisenhower and began to be a real nuisance to those in power.

Carrol



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