Being alive at the time, I remember there was a lot of demonizing one's opponents, much like today in fact. I remember anti-war protestors being thought of as free love fornicating, pot smoking, communists and police and soldiers being called pigs and baby killers. Once your opponent is dehumanized in this way, the violence that follows is easily justified, certainly in the heat of the moment. It becomes easy to thro…
That is a false equivalence. Also, why would someone in 1970 think American soldiers were baby killers? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/30/the-scene-of-t...
Yup, as you noted, the My Lai massacre had made the news and the antiwar faction painted all GIs as baby killers.