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Eliot Rosewater

(34,154 posts) Wed Sep 17, 2025, 12:32 PM Sep 17

One of the ways we got here, the 60-year-old lie that anti-Vietnam war protesters spit on [View all]

Returning military members. There’s actually no proof it ever actually really happened, there is a famous book written about it.

https://nyupress.org/9780814751473/the-spitting-image/

“The Spitting Image“

I have a relative who was told this by his father who served in Vietnam, an extreme right winger.

This relative who is a very intelligent person believes to this day that Democrats and liberals are all part of the group that did this that we are all descendants of that ideology.

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One of the ways we got here, the 60-year-old lie that anti-Vietnam war protesters spit on [View all] Eliot Rosewater Sep 17 OP

I got a call from a Vietnam vet shortly after George Floyd. He's a public safety union guy. LeftInTX Sep 17 #1

The biggest step to get us where we are was the supreme court in 2010 Autumn Sep 17 #2

... Prairie Gates Sep 17 #3

Same with angry witchy feminists destroying families cbabe Sep 17 #4

We can connect this to what happened to Hillary Eliot Rosewater Sep 17 #5

I was insulated b/c my Vietnam year was my first year of 4 yr enlistment, meaning UTUSN Sep 17 #6

Thank you for your service. Eliot Rosewater Sep 17 #7

Thank you for YOURS! - and, yes, I sort of went tangential on your main point that the spitting part UTUSN Sep 17 #8

Couple of things, when you thank you me for my service do you mean Eliot Rosewater Sep 17 #9

No, I had no inkling UTUSN Sep 17 #10