[Savage Beast]

The counter-culture movement of the 1960's parasitized the moral momentum of the Civil Rights Movement and America's commitment to end institutionalized racial discrimination. In the minds of many Americans, these two movements were fused.

Today they no longer are.

The counter-culture movement is recognized today by more and more Americans as a silly, iconoclastic tantrum, unrelated to the nobility of the Civil Rights Movement, its devotees tiresome old worn-out hippies and other loosers who have nothing to do with the idealism and basic human decency that fired the assaults on racism, no matter what their wearisome, shallow, self-aggrandizing claims may be.

[weegee]

That grafting happened when communists got MLK Jr. to hop onboard their income and housing protests. Moved the goal post beyond racial discrimination to class politics of "rich" vs. "poor".