Ron Hart, a syndicated columnist now featured in The Log grumbles about “liberals who idolized those who marched for causes de jour in the 1960s” and that what he hates about protest marchers is “they tell people about it for the next 50 years.”
Causes de jour? Like marching for civil rights, women’s rights, ending a war (whatever your feelings about the anti-war movement, I assume most people would agree that war is a serious issue)? And in the case of the civil rights movement, marching, protesting and speaking out in the face of death threats, murders, bombings and assassinations?
But yeah, how annoying to have people talk about stuff like that as if it was important, or courageous, or anything like that. So much more entertaining to read through Hart’s sniggering snark about how trivial all that stuff was.

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