{"id":573,"date":"2020-11-13T10:23:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T15:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/?p=573"},"modified":"2020-11-13T12:37:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T17:37:25","slug":"pick-a-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/2020\/11\/13\/pick-a-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick a side"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Throughout the semester, we have been analyzing the events of 1968. With all that has happened, I cannot help but draw similarities to our current year of 2020. I think these two years are similar because of a few events from each. 1968 is remembered by the Civil Rights Movement, the United States Presidential election, and the Vietnam War. These three main events were so important and polarizing that it forced people to pick a side. You could not remain neutral for any of these topics because people\u2019s lives were on the line. Citizens had no choice but to form an opinion and defend it. Did you support the civil rights movement? Which political candidate do you side with? Is the Vietnam War just? These are all questions that people had to answer and much of the population disagreed on them. For this reason, 68\u2019 was a time where our country felt extremely divided and filled with tension.&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In a way, 2020 has been defined by three main factors too \u2013 a Presidential Election, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the COVID-19 Pandemic. This year was one of the most publicly followed elections in the history of the United States and certainly divided people between different political parties. With the emergence of social media, people were able to voice their differing opinions on a platform like never before. Secondly, the Black Lives Matter movement was sparked primarily from the murder of Goerge Floyd in May. When videos and details of his murder were released, the country erupted in protests and unrest. Millions of people came together to protest systematic racism. During this time, merely standing on the side, while others protested was no longer acceptable for combatting racism. Lastly, above all the other events from 2020, we have been living in the midst of a global pandemic. This unforeseen event that has life or death implications can be compared to the effect that the Vietnam war had on the United States in 1968. The subject matter between the two events is loosely related, but they are certainly similar in the sense that they demanded the attention of the American people. Different people hold different views of the virus, creating tension and divide amongst each other. Throughout this year, people have been forced to choose where they stand on certain topics, and this has created a culture where you need to defend and voice your opinions. With all this said, I do not think it would be entirely crazy to think that there may be a class 50 years from now that focuses on the events of 2020, just as we have done this semester with 1968.&nbsp;<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the semester, we have been analyzing the events of 1968. With all that has happened, I cannot help but draw similarities to our current year of 2020. I think these two years are similar because of a few events from each. 1968 is remembered by the Civil Rights Movement, the United States Presidential election, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/2020\/11\/13\/pick-a-side\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pick a side&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3824,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3824"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}