i have very little sympathy for anyone who when offered the choice "go kill those people over the other side of the world, or go to prison" answer "i'll kill those people then"
A solid chunk of the fighting force in Vietnam were volunteers and even with the draft like 2:3 in favor of volunteers. The us military still targets minority and impoverished communities to this day but that doesn’t change the fact that the actions performed are against the global proletariat and going to kill brown people on the other side of the planet to pay for college is a pretty shit excuse
When there's a draft the concept of "volunteering" becomes shaky. If the alternative to "volunteering" is to be drafted into something worse or similar, how voluntary is it really then?
I definitely feel for the people who were the targets of drafting, as resisting it had negative consequences they shouldn't have had to deal with, but people could and did resist it. There were other options than going to Vietnam and fighting for the US. Lots of people fled the country, lots of people were jailed rather than be drafted. Among those who did join the military, many refused to engage in combat, many deserted, and some fragged their officers.
There were options; fuck the people who chose to fight in the war.
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i have very little sympathy for anyone who when offered the choice "go kill those people over the other side of the world, or go to prison" answer "i'll kill those people then"
:this: what the fuck kind of boot licking is going on in this thread
A solid chunk of the fighting force in Vietnam were volunteers and even with the draft like 2:3 in favor of volunteers. The us military still targets minority and impoverished communities to this day but that doesn’t change the fact that the actions performed are against the global proletariat and going to kill brown people on the other side of the planet to pay for college is a pretty shit excuse
When there's a draft the concept of "volunteering" becomes shaky. If the alternative to "volunteering" is to be drafted into something worse or similar, how voluntary is it really then?
I definitely feel for the people who were the targets of drafting, as resisting it had negative consequences they shouldn't have had to deal with, but people could and did resist it. There were other options than going to Vietnam and fighting for the US. Lots of people fled the country, lots of people were jailed rather than be drafted. Among those who did join the military, many refused to engage in combat, many deserted, and some fragged their officers. There were options; fuck the people who chose to fight in the war.