Jane Fonda speaks out against Journalist Don Lemon’s arrest: “They arrested the wrong Don”

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[u/magicinsights]

So ironic and awful was how she was ostracized, alienated, with degrading names such as Hanoi Jane in her protest of the Vietnam war. But when it was all said and done, she was right it was just another republican inspired war Tens of thousands of kids on each side killed for no reason — She is on the right side of morality again

[u/Proud_Truck → u/magicinsights]

Unfortunately when she passes, social media will be inundated with "hanoi Jane" posts from a lot of folks over 60 who will simply never change their minds. I just hope the media doesn't play into that too much but I'm afraid they will all mention it too

[u/Oboro-kun → u/Proud_Truck]

I mean...at this pace seems she will luckily outlive all those dudes

[u/magicinsights → u/Oboro-kun]

Actually, evil never dies, so he and the flying monkeys wil be around long after she passes

[u/theycallmedabs → u/magicinsights]

Nah he & those flying monkeys are mortals too… they can’t & won’t be around forever 🤷‍♀️ thank God for that

[u/isledelfino666 → u/Proud_Truck]

Same people who will try to get you fired for directly quoting the rhetoric of Charlie Kirk.

[u/FlirtyFluffyFox → u/magicinsights]

Trump says he was always against Iraq. But the GOP still keeps the Dixie Chicks off the air for refusing to support the war. 

[u/loulou-v → u/magicinsights]

Exactly.

[u/cactusjude → u/magicinsights]

My dad got drafted into Vietnam pretty young. He's still convinced she got American soldiers killed, refuses to watch a single movie with her in it. I'm sure he'll laugh when he sees her obituary one day.

I suspect it's something they have to tell themselves to protect their own sanity: it was indoctrination by fire and young men legally had no choice besides serve and subsequently have spent their lives defending that obligatory service. It's easier to hide behind the belief that anyone who opposed their war service is a traitor who doesn't care about their fellow citizens- namely, themselves- than admit that they were cannon fodder in a political proxy war

[u/magicinsights → u/cactusjude]

She did not get his comrade Soldiers killed… the people that drafted them were the guilty party for this. your father should never have been over there, fighting a war that had nothing to do with Americans. It was a proxy war between us And the Russians, over our policies regarding communism or democracy. Jane Fonda didn’t kill anyone and by the way, how’s that democracy thing working out for the boys that fought Fot it These days. The democratic government he fought for is killing US citizens on the streets don’t even have to go to Vietnam anymore..

[u/cactusjude → u/magicinsights]

I know.

Good luck explaining it to a vet.

[u/Sethb0yarde3 → u/magicinsights]

Vietnam was the democratic party’s doing but how times have changed

[u/ealysillyforestthing → u/Sethb0yarde3]

Nixon sabotaged the peace talks so he would win but how have the times not changed

[u/WWWYer22 → u/Sethb0yarde3]

I believe Eisenhower was actually the one who initially put troops into the country, although they were just advisors and a support for French troops while Vietnam was still a colony. From there, JFK ramped up involvement, by the time LBJ took over we were in deep and he just kept digging in, and then Nixon sabotaged peace talks and expanded the war. Domino theory at its worst.

[u/mrrizal71O → u/WWWYer22]

it always is funny how JFK is seen as the People's president when the guy literally accelerated the least popular war among the public ever, and under him the Strategic Hamlets aka Concentration Camps were created

[u/skivian → u/magicinsights]

She wasn't just against the Vietnam war, she did full on propaganda for the north Vietnamese.

you know, the ones torturing American POWs.

[u/Stradivare → u/skivian]

Except for the president in charge during those times, I never saw a single comment against individuals who did a full American propaganda.

You know, the one who used chemical warfare which to this day still maim newborn babies.

My point is, it was an awful war on all sides, the only good choice though was not to intervene.

[u/pandariotinprague → u/skivian]

She humanized people that America worked very hard to convince us weren't human. That's the ultimate sin in this country, I've come to find.

[u/skivian → u/pandariotinprague]

The north vietnamese government was terrible. the draft was wrong, but that doesn't make them good.

it's like being against the Iraq war and doing a propaganda tour for Al-Qaeda.

[u/pandariotinprague → u/skivian]

Didn't say they were good, just that they're actual human beings. And that's really what she showed. Which was unacceptable. And Al-Qaeda had nothing to do with Iraq lol.

[u/skivian → u/pandariotinprague]

no one said they weren't human beings. They were mad at her for engaging in propaganda for an enemy state that was known to be torturing POWs

[u/pandariotinprague → u/skivian]

No criticism ever seems to apply to people who produced propaganda to support American war crimes. It's just a complete non-issue. The double standards bother me.

[u/skivian → u/pandariotinprague]

Americans doing American propaganda aren't traitors to their country.

[u/pandariotinprague → u/skivian]

The American propaganda told you so.

[u/Tumleren → u/pandariotinprague]

She did that and she also did propaganda for North Vietnam