Columnist Blames '60's Liberals for Gangs
Check out this hilarious column by the Minneapolis Star Tribune's conservative writer Katherine Kersten about how a spike in gang crime can be attributed to "the debilitating attitudes of the '60s," which were brought to us by liberal "intellectuals, lawyers, and entertainment executives."
In particular, she blames sexual freedom and social welfare programs.
The '60s revolution was about personal "liberation." Recreational sex? "Make love, not war." Drugs? "Whatever turns you on." Teachers, parents and police? "Challenge authority."
The '60s also launched the War on Poverty. Though well-intentioned, it created incentives for self-destructive behavior such as out-of-wedlock childbearing and welfare dependence. Its mantra was that the poor are victims without responsibilities, whose behavior has nothing to do with their plight.
[Via Paul at Eye Teeth]
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