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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts) Mon Nov 20, 2017, 04:53 PM Nov 2017

Charles Manson was a right-wing racist con man.

He had no connection with Sixties values other than in his decision to use those values as a human shield to hide his bloodsoaked white-supremacist agenda.

And the counterculture never deserved to be punished or suppressed for anything Manson or his "family" did.

People like him have existed in every era in history, whether "permissive" or authoritarian.

Manson would have done everything he did even if the Sixties had been exactly like the Fifties, or the Twenties, or any other decade.

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Charles Manson was a right-wing racist con man. (Original Post) Ken Burch Nov 2017 OP

To call him a hippie isn't right he didn't represent hippies MattP Nov 2017 #1

He represented nothing but his own delusions of murderous grandeur. Ken Burch Nov 2017 #2

Im not convinced Charles Mansons LibArts Nov 2017 #3

Damn right! This mornings paper describe him as Floyd R. Turbo Nov 2017 #4

Who is arguing Manson's ethics mirrored the collective sentiments of the sixties? LanternWaste Nov 2017 #5

Wasn't saying anyone HERE was. But that was the argument of the MSM and the political establishment Ken Burch Nov 2017 #6

MattP

(3,304 posts)

1. To call him a hippie isn't right he didn't represent hippies

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Mon Nov 20, 2017, 04:55 PM

Nov 2017

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)

2. He represented nothing but his own delusions of murderous grandeur.

Reply to MattP (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 20, 2017, 04:56 PM

Nov 2017

m/t.

LibArts

(27 posts)

3. Im not convinced Charles Mansons

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Mon Nov 20, 2017, 04:57 PM

Nov 2017

brain stem was in any way connected to either of the upper lobes.

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,751 posts)

4. Damn right! This mornings paper describe him as

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Mon Nov 20, 2017, 04:58 PM

Nov 2017

“Charles Manson, hippy cult leader” He was the most unhippy shitbag to ever draw a breath! 🤬

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)

5. Who is arguing Manson's ethics mirrored the collective sentiments of the sixties?

Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Mon Nov 20, 2017, 05:25 PM

Nov 2017

Who is arguing Manson's ethics mirrored the collective sentiments of the sixties?

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)

6. Wasn't saying anyone HERE was. But that was the argument of the MSM and the political establishment

Reply to LanternWaste (Reply #5)

Mon Nov 20, 2017, 06:11 PM

Nov 2017

at the time, and for decades since, and it was a major thing used to justify crushing the counterculture in the early Seventies.

Please don't always assume I'm referencing something said on DU. We're not limited to discussing what people say here.

Does that clarify?

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