Poor proletarian workers, especially minorities, did not have the resources to either run away to Canada, or the ability to subject their families to financial ruin by serving time in prison or leaving them behind.
The people who were dodging the draft were college educated labour aristocrats who had enough money themselves or from their families to keep their heads down in Canada until the draft blew over.
Should they have served time in prison or dodged the draft? Morally, absolutely. Materially? That’s where the idealism falls apart.
“You don’t understand the poor proletariat just had to kill Vietnamese farmers” let’s pretend this is true even so the vast majority of vets were volunteers
they could’ve chosen to dodge the draft
Poor proletarian workers, especially minorities, did not have the resources to either run away to Canada, or the ability to subject their families to financial ruin by serving time in prison or leaving them behind.
The people who were dodging the draft were college educated labour aristocrats who had enough money themselves or from their families to keep their heads down in Canada until the draft blew over.
Should they have served time in prison or dodged the draft? Morally, absolutely. Materially? That’s where the idealism falls apart.
“You don’t understand the poor proletariat just had to kill Vietnamese farmers” let’s pretend this is true even so the vast majority of vets were volunteers
Look I ain’t defending them and yes they should have but it is still a difference