The Kent State shooting was very popular at the time. It's only in retrospect that America decided to be horrified about it.
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Yeah, the entirety of the US war on Vietnam has gotten memory holed into being this big, unpopular mistake when the truth was that it was fairly popular at first
Lots of volunteers, lots of pro-war sentiment
Took the war dragging on for several years for opinion to start changing, but the two big nails in the coffin were the Tet Offensive and the release of the Pentagon Papers
The combination of the supposedly defeated North Vietnamese striking back with a vengeance and the public finding out that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was a farce was what finally broke the majority of public support
Atrocities like the My Lai Massacre and Tiger Force didn't do much to get people turned off, and neither did the Kent State shooting
It's just like how Afghanistan is considered now, apparently all the libs are now against it from the start.
America's propaganda machine is ridiculously powerful.
Yeah my grandparents still talk nostalgically about the good old days when the government knew how to deal with communists. How unfair everyone was to Nixon.
Yep, they learned that higher tuitions had a chilling effect on protests, and it worked damn well for a long time.
More Americans know about Tiamen Square that of what happened on Kent State.
They know of Tiamen square. I wouldn't say they know about it. They just see a guy in front of a tank and then go "oooo, brave, standing up to the CeceePee."
I hate to be that guy, but it’s tiananmen. 天 = tian =heaven, 安 = an = peace, 门 = men = gate. 天安门。
I'm American. That's my excuse.
Sadly, I am also trapped in this pisspot with ya, I just also happen to have learned a bit of Chinese over the last year, and proposed in front of Chairman Mao in tiananmen when I was there, so I am pretty intimately aware of how to spell it lol
Yeah, tbh I think I just rolled with the typo from the previous comment...
Not a typo, plain ignorance.
Uh...
I'm afraid to say anything
But seriously, like maybe to an extent. At least in so far as the pigs aren't just going in there to shoot and kill protestors. Doesn't mean they won't brutalize protestors in other ways of course. And I honestly wonder how many Americans even know about Kent State. Even in my relatively good education I think Kent State was mentioned once or twice from elementary school through college.
Incomprehensible how absolute brutality is fine to the average person as long as there are no deaths 
no direct deaths
Yeah, they learned the state is the ultimate purveyor of violence
No, and when I have funds again (inshallah) I will funnel them all to Maoist insurgency groups in Texas in their quest to 
Greg Abbott
don't donate to the austin red guard, they already get some of your taxes (rimshot)
Finishing the job the trees started 
(but he has a cowboy hat)
No, they drink 10 o clock news juice and are force fed what and who to get mad at
You think they cared when protestors got sprayed in the face with bear mace at UC Davis 15 ish years ago?
They learned that there will never be consequences for anything they do.
no
The fact that veterans get the GI Bill is enough proof that 'no, we did not'. Those dudes shouldn't be around any schools.
The US has only forgotten things since Kent State.
Yes, they learned to do it again
no
The US? Learn something?