[sonnyblarney]

Again with the relativism!

Kent state and Tiannamen are hardly comparable.

Tiannamen could have ballooned into a full on revolution, there were many killed, imprisoned indefinitely with arbitrary trials, hurt, families threatened, careers stomped out etc..

To add:

Kent State was a spontaneous situation, violence broke out at a student sit in, with thousands of students potentially overwhelming a small number of state troopers, some of whom foolishly shot into the crowd.

Fundamentally not comparable.

[seanmcdirmid]

I only said they were comparable in as much as kids not being able to relate to them because they occurred in the past. Like WW2, Vietnam, etc...

I don't think that is the only view about what happened at Kent State, but it is really beside my point.