The horrors that were going on in Vietnam were public knowledge, and you had a lot of people who made the moral decision to refuse to fight in that imperialist conflict. For veterans since then, you don't even have the excuse that you were drafted. Being propagandized in this case may be a "reason," but it doesn't offer absolution.
The US's state-sanctioned warrior cult is a key cultural institution for maintaining imperialism by shifting victimhood from the actual victims of imperialism to the machinists of the war machine. It's a thought structure that should be undermined when possible.
We have people right here on hexbear who are ex-troops and were in Iraq or Afghanistan, and they are accepted here because they actually understand that what they did was wrong.
Some dipshit that was torching villages and murdering babies in Vietnam or Korea and still think they should be treated like heroes after having 50+ years to figure this shit out deserve no acceptance.
The horrors that were going on in Vietnam were public knowledge, and you had a lot of people who made the moral decision to refuse to fight in that imperialist conflict. For veterans since then, you don't even have the excuse that you were drafted. Being propagandized in this case may be a "reason," but it doesn't offer absolution.
The US's state-sanctioned warrior cult is a key cultural institution for maintaining imperialism by shifting victimhood from the actual victims of imperialism to the machinists of the war machine. It's a thought structure that should be undermined when possible.
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We have people right here on hexbear who are ex-troops and were in Iraq or Afghanistan, and they are accepted here because they actually understand that what they did was wrong.
Some dipshit that was torching villages and murdering babies in Vietnam or Korea and still think they should be treated like heroes after having 50+ years to figure this shit out deserve no acceptance.