Timeline for Were Vietnam veterans spat on?
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| Feb 22, 2020 at 0:31 | history | edited | Avery | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 19, 2020 at 21:31 | comment | added | Nobody | @AndrewGrimm Is this really an established connotation in English? To me "stab in the back" seems like an ordinary metaphor for betrayal. In German you would need to explicitly use the word Dolchstoss to connect such an accusation of betrayal to the Nazis. | |
| Feb 19, 2020 at 19:26 | history | edited | Avery | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 18, 2020 at 23:20 | vote | accept | dont_shog_me_bro | ||
| Feb 17, 2020 at 21:26 | comment | added | DavePhD | It doesn't make sense to say that spitting was a 1971-73 origin myth, because already in 1967 Life magazine (one of the most famous publications of the time) said soldiers were spat upon at an anti-war protest (see my edited answer). | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 21:09 | history | edited | Avery | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2020 at 20:23 | comment | added | reirab | Evidence of some people treating Vietnam vets well is not evidence that they weren't treated poorly by others... | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 19:57 | comment | added | user76284 | @AndrewGrimm Yes, the association fallacy and poisoning the well come to mind. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 19:32 | history | edited | Avery | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2020 at 19:20 | history | edited | Avery | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2020 at 19:13 | comment | added | Golden Cuy | @user76284 I was merely noting that this answer was comparing Vietnam war supporters to Nazis. Readers can work out for themselves whether the comparison is appropriate or not. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 17:35 | comment | added | user76284 | @AndrewGrimm For those unfamiliar with the phrase animal welfare, it’s used to describe a set of laws ensuring animals were protected, very popular with the Nazis and usually with anti-Semitic scapegoating. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 16:59 | comment | added | Owen Reynolds | The Seattle parade -- early, before opinion turned bad, in atypical Seattle -- seems like the weakest possible example. It makes it sound like no one could find parades in major cities in the early 70's, when the supposed Vet-hatred would have stronger. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 16:55 | comment | added | RBarryYoung | This answer in no way answers or even addresses the question “Were Vietnam veterans spat upon?” Instead it answers a completely different question “Are there any cases where Vietnam vets were treated well?” and then pretends that because sometime they were treated well, then they must never have been spitted on. You will notice that nowhere in this lengthy answer does the word “spit” even occur, nor does the book being quoted address the actual question. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 16:32 | comment | added | JimmyJames | My father told me a story about how upon return he sat in a waiting room for hours because the receptionist purposely didn't inform the person he was there to interview. He attributed that to stereotypes about returning soldiers. He ended up being called back after the management discovered what happened and worked there for decades. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 15:27 | comment | added | Avery | @OwenReynolds Why do you think the 1969 parade doesn't count? | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 15:07 | comment | added | Owen Reynolds | A 1985 parade? That's 12 years after the troops came home. If that's the earliest big parade the author could find... . He also seems to whitewash the memorial. My memory, refreshed by wikipedia, is that Congress had no interest, nor constituents. A private group had to push hard for it. I recall people were puzzled why we'd want one. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 10:08 | comment | added | dont_shog_me_bro | There seem to be a lot of associated myths surrounding Vietnam, such as the one about there being thousands of US POWs captured and held prisoner (also perpetuated in Rambo 2!) when in fact they were MIA/BNR and definitely dead. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 3:14 | comment | added | Golden Cuy | For those unfamiliar with the phrase stab-in-the-back in the context of wars, it’s used to describe a conspiracy theory, very popular with the Nazis and usually with anti-Semitic scapegoating, that Germany didn’t lose because of military factors but instead because of sabotage on the home front. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 1:29 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to find some isolated incidents of this, though there's little reason to believe it was widespread. I can definitely recall some news accounts of returning veterans being "disrespected" in one way or another, though just as often it was the other way around, with one segment of returning veterans heaping disrespect on anti-war protesters. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 0:59 | history | answered | Avery | CC BY-SA 4.0 |