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What if hippies in the 70s were mentally just like protestors today but we were taught they were drugged out airheads so we would grow up believing protesting was stupid
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Anonymous 5d

They were protestors then too hippies famously swarmed civil rights protests, anti vietnam protests. I went to public school I was certainly taught this in history classes

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Anonymous 5d

Pretty sure people know this like no shit lol

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Anonymous 5d

No one domestic policy chief (John Ehrlichman) said in 1994:

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Anonymous 5d

The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5d

. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5d

NIXONS DOMESTIC POLICY CHIEF

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