Uncommon Knowledge classic: The Sixties with Hitchens and William F. Buckley

[christo930]

MLK is over-rated. The real heroes of the civil rights movement was the millions of people who stood up, protested, boycotted, wrote their congressman and made personal sacrifices for a larger good. King was wealthy, had an entourage, a girl in every port, millions listened when he spoke, etc. He paid with his life, but I think we should have a civil rights day, not an MLK day.

[JimC]

14:57 Goldwater thought "enemy couldn't sustain casualties"

N. Vietnamese General Giap has said in interviews that the Tet Offensive resulted in a severe loss for his side, contrary to its portrayal in the Western media. Our side didn't follow it up for various reasons. So Goldwater's earlier optimism was probably ultimately justified.

[JimC]

14:57 Goldwater thought "enemy couldn't sustain casualties"

N. Vietnamese General Giap has said in interviews that the Tet Offensive resulted in a severe loss for his side, contrary to its portrayal in the Western media. Our side didn't follow it up for various reasons. So Goldwater's earlier view probably was correct.

[LYinKansas]

Blocking chinese communist expansion into southeast asia was an official reason given by President Johnson? Yikes they weren't even trying to lie back then, must have been real different times..

[pushups2345]

@LYinKansas it actually was true during ho chi minh's time, since as a dedicated stalinist, like mao, ho refused to condemn stalin when khruschev did and therefor moved into the chinese camp. it was only after ho died that north vietnam moved back into the soviet camp

[MultiUniv3rsal]

The political divide of the 60s was nothing but 2 sides who agreed on 90% of everything, but chose to champion those small percentage of ideas that they felt, made them incompatible.

Palestine/Israel

The Iraq war

Tea party movements.

It really boils down to the length of time it takes for 2 ideologies to find their common ground and begin to compromise.

The USA uses socialist ideas that would've been taboo 50 years ago, and the PRC uses capitalism the same way.

[nergvol]

@MultiUniv3rsal Think you are on to something there my friend. Good comment

[hchukuka]

@MultiUniv3rsal PRC ?? what's that ?

[z4nizzle]

@hchukuka

People's Republic of China

[RepublicOfVietnam]

Wow, I can actually comment on Hoover institution lol

[massiveants]

lol... what's with all the props? :D

[xXxXTravisBickleXxXx]

@massiveants i am now one minute into the video... and i agree and i am worried ,when props come into play it is to feed the low iq people :/