{"id":12509,"date":"2020-07-24T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12509"},"modified":"2020-07-23T21:16:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T04:16:04","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-not-your-parents-revolution-how-todays-anarchists-differ-from-60s-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-not-your-parents-revolution-how-todays-anarchists-differ-from-60s-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson: Not your parents&#8217; revolution \u2014 how today&#8217;s anarchists differ from 60s protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/science\/archaeology\/history\" target=\"_blank\">1960s<\/a>\u00a0and early \u201970s, the U.S. was convulsed by massive protests calling for radical changes in the country\u2019s attitudes on race, class, gender and sexual orientation. The Vietnam War and widespread college deferments were likely the fuel that ignited prior peaceful civil disobedience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes the demonstrations became violent, as with the Watts riots of 1965 and the protests at the 1968&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/elections\/democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democratic<\/a>&nbsp;convention in Chicago. Terrorists from the Weathermen (later called the Weather Underground) bombed dozens of government buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201960s\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-protests\" target=\"_blank\">revolution<\/a>\u00a0introduced to the country everything from hippies, communes, free love, mass tattooing, commonplace profanity, rampant drug use, rock music and high divorce rates to the war on poverty, massive government growth, feminism, affirmative action and race\/gender\/ethnic college curricula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/anarchists-todays-revolution-differ-60s-protesters-victor-davis-hanson\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News In the\u00a01960s\u00a0and early \u201970s, the U.S. was convulsed by massive protests calling for radical changes in the country\u2019s attitudes on race, class, gender and sexual orientation. The Vietnam War and widespread college deferments were likely the fuel that ignited prior peaceful civil disobedience. Sometimes the demonstrations became violent, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3fL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12438,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-says-the-left-has-used-george-floyds-death-to-stage-cultural-revolution\/","url_meta":{"origin":12509,"position":0},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson says &#8216;the left has used&#8217; George Floyd&#8217;s death to stage cultural revolution","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 22, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Author and Hoover Institution senior fellow\u00a0Victor Davis Hanson\u00a0told \u201cThe Brian Kilmeade Show\u201d on Wednesday that the left has \u201chijacked\u201d the protests over the death of\u00a0George Floyd\u00a0in order to stage a cultural revolution. 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