• cawsby [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The peak of the Young Republicans on college campuses was during the Vietnam war.

    The hippies are vastly overrepresented in movies and TV. Maybe 10-20% of the youth culture at the time could ostensibly be called hippy in any sense. About as many hippies in the 1960's as there were ravers in the 1990's.

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Anything from the white counterculture was called hippies by the press. poets, SDS, Yippies, Psychadelics users, Buddhists, rock and roll fans, folk fans, all of it.

      Abbie Hoffman gave a speech about how "Hippies" didn't mean anything, but implied a lot of things and was more a rhetorical bludgeon than a reflection of reality.

      What we think of now as "hippies" is a consumer identity built out of the rubble of the 60s and 70s to sell crystals and pyramid schemes to traumatized trust fund kids

      • cawsby [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yippies were the OG leftist troll army. The world needs more socialist theater kids.