How the Kent State massacre marked the start of America's polarization

[arenean]

From The Guardian:

The killing of four white students 50 years ago brought the anti-Vietnam protests global attention. The killing of black students at the same time went unnoticed

David Paul Kuhn, author of The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution, said America is still living with the divisions laid bare in that first week of May 1970.

“If there’s an era when the tribalisation of the Trump era began, it’s this time,” he said. “Between Kent State and the hardhat riot you have the best microcosm that there is of the beginning of the polarisation that haunts America today.”

Full story: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/04/kent-state-massacre-marked-start-of-americas-polarization

[DavidDvorkin]

1. America was polarized during the Revolution

And before that, during colonial times. We've always been polarized.

[onenote]

2. And were we not polarized during the Civil War?

Silly article.