11-02-2020, 03:47 PM
** 02-Nov-2020 World View: Censorship over Vietnam War
As I work 16 hours a day on my Vietnam book, I'm constantly astounded
about how far the public view of the Vietnam war is from reality.
This is an example of long-term historical censorship by the antiwar
leftist Boomers.
The mainstream view of the Vietnam War, as defined by the antiwar
left, is that South Vietnam never really existed as a coherent
government, that the people in southern Vietnam really wanted to be
governed by the North Vietnamese Communists and were only prevented
from doing so by the evil policies of the evil presidents Kennedy,
Johnson and Nixon. Furthermore, the mainstream view is that once the
Americans withdrew in 1975, then North and South Vietnam were joined
together in a reunion and lived happily ever after.
I particularly remember from watching the news in 1975 that when the
massive genocides began, the mainstream media never reported on them.
At the time of the horrific North Vietnam genocides in South Vietnam
and the horrific killing fields genocides in Cambodia, I recall that
there were only vague mentions of them, and news shows were quoting
Jane Fonda and William Kunstler who took the position that "we will
never criticize the actions of a Communist goverment," the implication
being that everything that Communism did was good, even genocides,
while everything that America did was evil. You have to search hard
to find any information of these and other genocides, since they've
been mostly censored and suppressed.
FullMoon Wrote:> It seems the more removed they became from reality the more they
> had to censor people's thoughts and words and then actions. I
> wonder if we can find a historical parallel that really resembles
> our current situation?
As I work 16 hours a day on my Vietnam book, I'm constantly astounded
about how far the public view of the Vietnam war is from reality.
This is an example of long-term historical censorship by the antiwar
leftist Boomers.
The mainstream view of the Vietnam War, as defined by the antiwar
left, is that South Vietnam never really existed as a coherent
government, that the people in southern Vietnam really wanted to be
governed by the North Vietnamese Communists and were only prevented
from doing so by the evil policies of the evil presidents Kennedy,
Johnson and Nixon. Furthermore, the mainstream view is that once the
Americans withdrew in 1975, then North and South Vietnam were joined
together in a reunion and lived happily ever after.
I particularly remember from watching the news in 1975 that when the
massive genocides began, the mainstream media never reported on them.
At the time of the horrific North Vietnam genocides in South Vietnam
and the horrific killing fields genocides in Cambodia, I recall that
there were only vague mentions of them, and news shows were quoting
Jane Fonda and William Kunstler who took the position that "we will
never criticize the actions of a Communist goverment," the implication
being that everything that Communism did was good, even genocides,
while everything that America did was evil. You have to search hard
to find any information of these and other genocides, since they've
been mostly censored and suppressed.
