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I recall people shouting ,"Get a job!" at me in the late 1960's and early 1970's, when I was a teenager who had a job, never begged, ever,and yet was insulted by people older than myself. I learned to keep my initial ripostes quiet. It was clear to me that this lashing out at the young had been provoked by a media rife with anti-longhair, anti-counterculture, anti-intellectual campaigns. The "angry" public didn't really think through why they were angry. I never blamed them.
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