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by krapp 3021 days ago
>I would have expected it to be politically suicidal to even utter the word?

Backlashes are cyclical and sometimes generational - the hippies against the beatniks, the yuppies against the hippies, etc. The current political and cultural zeitgeist in the US seems to be much further right and pro-war than it might have been 40 years ago.