When the National Guard killed those four students in Ohio in May, 1970 -- because some students were protesting the Vietnam War -- conservatives spread endless lies.
Their main lie was the the National Guard members had fired on the crowds of students because they were in "fear for their lives," and that the students had been throwing stones at them, attacking them, mobbing them. None of that is true.
Conservatives also claimed the dead and wounded students "brought it on themselves," because they shouldn't have been there. (Why weren't they in class?) Others claimed "most" of the protestors were paid agitators. Some said more students should have been shot. Others claimed the dead students were so filthy the undertakers wouldn't touch them, that they were "crawling with lice."
There were endless claims about that, how dirty the students were. Also about how dangerous and destructive they were -- that they had been throwing trash all over the campus. That they were burning the campus down. Nixon claimed they were burning books, and said they were bums. (Some windows were broken in the protest, and one building did burn down, though who knows if it was related to the protests.)
But Nixon did appoint a commission to investigate the deaths, and that commission found that the shootings were not justified. I don't expect to see the same thing done by our current regime.
No, they'll just keep lying about what happened, because it's okay if you bear false witness against those people. That's what Jesus and Socrates both said, isn't it? Love your neighbor as yourself, but slander, shoot, and spit on those people.
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