Photos from the Hands Off! protest in Lancaster, PA - They are White Old People!
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And why are they shoving this in our faces? Because they want to set the young ones against the old ones and revive their old myth about the hippies. Ask anyone who was young in the 60s and 70s how many actual hippies they ever laid eyes on. It was a construct.
"And why are they shoving this in our faces? Because they want to set the young ones against the old ones and revive their old myth about the hippies. Ask anyone who was young in the 60s and 70s how many actual hippies they ever laid eyes on. It was a construct."
This can't be said often enough. The MSM were united in their obsessive coverage of the "Hippie Culture." Yet in actual fact, unless you lived in a major city (San Francisco, anyoe?), 99% of the population never even saw a hippie in person. They were overwhelmingly a media creation, designed to convince the rest of the country that their numbers were far, far greater than they actually were. And from the uninformed comments I see here, that stereotype is still holding strong.
The American left cunningly used the widespread disapproval of LBJ's war to drive their party line that "antiwar" and "hippie" were synonymous. They were not. And the number of Americans who wore their hair down to their ass, painted their faces and smoked weed till they passed out was always minuscule.
"The Sixties" of popular culture were largely a myth at the time, and they still are.
I know. I was there.
Well said! I was there too and most young people at the time were too busy finishing school, working for a living and raising a family not to mention not attracted to the thinly veiled Marxism of hippy liberals to bother with it. If you saw someone who looked like a hippy most likely they were some dumb kid thinking it was fashionable. Keep in mind, the left and particularly their propaganda/"news" machine NEVER give up on a tried and true manipulation ploy.
Those were very weird days. The hippies were the beginning of upside-down clown world
Yes it was a media construct. Now we for sure know what they are doing. No one is buying these protests anymore. OK they are paying for the protests . . .
It was more than a media construct, and these people were not the tame "peace and love" images from the media. My personal interactions with them were a frightening, dangerous abet superficially harmless group it was a lie.
I don't know where you are from; but this was not a construct on the west coast. There were plenty of hippies to set your eyes on, hear, and in some cases smell.
East coast here - I remember there being hippies but they were no where near the majority of young people. I will admit that their influence reached farther than it was due in fashion and music though.
And I have friends who were from California who told me the opposite. Guess it depends on where you were and whether what you were seeing were actual hippies or hippy wannabees.
I think there is a difference between Barstow and San Francisco.
How exactly are you differentiating between actual or wannabees?