By: Holly Di Maggio
After watching the documentary on Monday, I found that the actions of the people in the Weather Underground Organization were very hypocritical. Before they broke away from the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), they believed in peaceful protests and wanted to end the war in Vietnam. Once they realized their strategies were not making progress, the people of the Weather Underground started causing violence against society by planting bombs and destructive protests. It was hypocritical for them to fight for peace in Vietnam by creating violence in America.Do you think that their actions were acceptable in order to prove their point to the American government?
No, I do not think their actions were justified, nor do I think they were able to prove their point at all with such violence. I would also go as far as to say that their actions got in their own way. Violence and extremism are very polarizing and isolating. I feel these students should have been educated enough to know that they were taking the wrong approach. Frankly, they appeared desperate and ignorant, which is sad — because these youth were by no means unintelligent or inarticulate.
ReplyDeleteI do not think their actions were justified, but I understand why they would think they were. In their eyes, the cause they were fighting for was worth bombing buildings and planning to kill people. I guess you could say they saw themselves as heirs to the American revolutionaries, fighting for the sake of the common man against a powerful and evil government, even though by resorting to terrorism, they put the common man in danger and gave the government license to investigate and even suppress dissent.
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