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Old 04-11-2014, 01:14 AM   #29 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus View Post
I can only say I *did* also live through the '80's '90's and '2000's and only the latter comes close to being as bad. In particular the '60's with brutal racism instilled into law in the American south, and a decade long, wicked, bloody, pointless war, which also carried over into the '70's. The Bush/Cheney war in Iraq was as bad in principle but not close in scale.
Can definitely understand the dissonance of that time in America. While racism and war were still extremely prominent here as well during that era, things were very different in Australia in the 60s and 70s as my parents and older siblings describe. Almost... simple (albeit ignorant...ha!).
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