In Reply to: The Weather Underground posted by jamesgarvin on April 27, 2006 at 13:44:08:
known to anyone with even the most cursory knowledge of American history at that time.
You, of course, are injecting the "establishment" view of insurrectionaries, i.e. they're all spoiled kids.
You may be surprised to know the background of other "spoiled kids" such as Castro, Che, the nameless thousands who opposed Pinochet and other S. American dictators, and... the Russian revolutionaries (a man of your superior intellect must appreciate we're not discussing the merits of these folks but merely their roots.)
So, unless one springs from the lowest of ghettos, boot-strapingly gains a PHd in History, travels the world (to know more about it, of course)... he had better just take it and like it from his society?
(Unless you can answer in less than encyclopedic length, be assured I will not read any response: brevity is the soul, you know?).
Glad you appreciated the film, btw.
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Follow Ups
- Funny you look down so condescendingly on a group - tinear 14:31:52 04/27/06 (3)
- Re: Funny you look down so condescendingly on a group - jamesgarvin 07:54:18 04/28/06 (2)
- Well, of course you're judging their actions and results from a - tinear 16:47:51 05/01/06 (1)
- Re: Well, of course you're judging their actions and results from a - jamesgarvin 07:44:05 05/02/06 (0)