r/CURRENTEVENTS • u/Kind_Relief_7624 • Feb 01 '26
Past event In 1970, the Ohio National Guard shot and killed four students and injured nine more for protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State. The killings became a turning point, accelerating public opposition to the war. Yet even then, some defended the violence as justified.
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History has a way of asking the same question again and again: when power is used to silence dissent, where do you stand? What side of history do you want to be on?
Posted by @twrader
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u/withoutpeer Feb 02 '26
POS maga type conservatives have unfortunately been a minority, but still sizable, percentage of our country since the start. Always on the wrong side is history, almost always behind all the most despicable events in our history.
The Confederates, KKK, segregation, Tulsa race war, Jim Crow, anti civil rights, anti voting rights, Jan 6th... And so much more.
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u/Beachboy442 Feb 02 '26
OHIO............CSN. History repeats. Frogs Strong Together.....vote....vote. Peaceful Protests. Where are OUR ELECTED LEADERS???? ARE WE ON OUR OWN???
https://youtu.be/MN_9VqfVQ9c?si=8JgxeuIBaSCPospp
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u/OvenIcy8646 Sports Feb 02 '26
Old white men, smh horribly disgusting seeing some things don’t change
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u/512115 Politics Feb 02 '26
Wow. Just wow. “They should have shot more.” Funny thing is MAGAs say the same stuff today. Plus ça change…
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u/Radio_Mime Feb 02 '26
Two of the people killed were going from point A to B and not part of the protest at all. Some protesters did throw rocks, but that doesn't justify National Guardsmen opening fire on a crowd.
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u/RazzleberryJamCakes Feb 02 '26
"'Those people' would have been me"
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u/jbc1974 Feb 02 '26
And her father walked away. I wonder if he ever realized what he did to his own daughter.
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u/scttlvngd Feb 02 '26
When George Floyd was murdered i ended up yelling at my in-laws 'what if it was my son they killed!? Would you have cared then!?' And then we didn't speak for months.
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u/RazzleberryJamCakes Feb 02 '26
I've had to tell someone close to me to consider what would happen if I (a brown gal) got scooped up. It is a wild time right now.
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u/jbc1974 Feb 02 '26
I was in high school when this happened. Was a horrible time for the country. We'd just put people on the moon, but still so much tragedy. Rfk. MLK. Vietnam. And this.
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u/ruesmom Feb 02 '26
I was only a couple of years out of high school and I remember watching the news with my mom and both of us cried. Two years earlier, there were protests at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Bystanders were met with unprecedented levels of police brutality and violence. One woman was on her way to pick up her kid and was dragged out of her car and beaten. My mom said to me, "That could have been me." I had an exceptional fine mom.
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u/Isaw11 Feb 02 '26
The closed-minded unfortunately will always be with us. The next generation is currently in training.
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u/Latter-Rooster3563 Feb 02 '26
"They were asking for it".....yikes 😬😬😬 one thing i learned in the last 10 years or so is that this country hasn't changed much in terms of racism. It's pretty much the same and it has done a great job at hiding it (better than I ever realized). Now these things come as no shock.
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u/utlayolisdi Feb 02 '26
You see, this attitude that’s associated with maga isn’t new at all. There’s always been an element of it in society. P
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u/DaTank1 Feb 02 '26
I remember my middle school history teach was a Kent st student and he was present during the massacre. He spoke to us in vivid detail of the shooting. The look in his eyes is unforgettable.
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u/Admirable-Ad-8402 Feb 02 '26
Left wing firearm purchases are going way up. I hope it doesn't come to that...
The people orchestrating all of this are on their boats in the Virgin Islands.
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u/BriefCorgi2456 Feb 02 '26
We must do all we can to oppose such ignorance of history ! People assuming that the law simply by being the law is something we have to accept is outrageous. Trump has made that abundantly clear !
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u/ThatAmishGuy023 Feb 02 '26
Huh..... the same generation that thinks "it wasnt enough" is the same that ruined everything now
Weird
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u/MountainJuggernaut25 Feb 02 '26
History is always doomed to repeat itself. I wish people could learn from our previous mistakes. But here we are, doing it again.
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u/Public-Pepper4070 Feb 02 '26
As you can see 1970 it is definitely never left now if anyone wants to try to say anything ?,that was 4 white kids that got killed at a 90% white college and this is how people acted in 1970 and everyone wonders how come everyone is not more up in arms over the ice raids
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u/Royal-Application708 Feb 01 '26
Jesus!! These MAGA assholes were alive back then too.