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#17 – God’s Socialist, pt. 7: A Gallant, Glorious, Screaming End

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The Rise of the Anti-Semitism Movement

Radical priest daniel barrigan said that to be radical is habitually to do things which society at large despises. But for many of the radicals in the 19 sixties, the causality and the purpose was reversed. For a lot of them, doing things despised by society at large became the point rather than an unavoidable side effect of the pursuit of justice. In political action, as in avangard art and literature, getting attention by outraging salt of the earth normes become the goal itself. This eventually consumed the movementa and really destroyed a lot of people. By 19 69, we have jerry reuben, very famous 19 sixtyes protest leader, writing

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