• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    How did “the 60s” create the Manson family?

    We’ve had literally countless (often more) grisly and bizarre murders since Manson. No reason it should be any more notable.

    But I guess giving it some kind of mystical import helps you make an argument

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      3 days ago

      The idea that the entire country was on the razors edge of a “race ware” in which the “coloreds” were going to topple American society was very much a product of the media in the 1960s designed specifically to terrify the white folks into opposing the civil rights movement and was the founding principal of Manson’s entire plan.

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        2 days ago

        The idea that the entire country was on the razors edge of a “race ware” in which the “coloreds” were going to topple American society was very much a product of the media in the 1960s

        That was a product of their LSD-addled brains.

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          I mean. Sure, they were addled because the CIA was dumping LSD all over the country and it just totally coincidentally served the narrative that kept money going into the military industrial complex.

          That aside it was a narrative that was pushed by the media into every home in the United States.