nd dazzle thousands of freaks to Chicago for the August Democratic
             Convention, create there a 'Festival of Life' against the 'Convention of Death,' a 'blending of pot
             and politics. . . a cross-fertilization of hippie and New Left philosophies."
             The Yippies were a radical group, a group that wanted to shake up all of the "straight"
             people. Be it the way they looked or the way they spoke, they wanted to challenge the
             establishment. Jerry Rubin describes the prototypical Yippie, "a street fighting freek, a dropout,
             who carries a gun at his hip. So ugly that middle class society is frightened by how he looks. A
             longhaired, bearded, crazy mother*censored*er whose life is theater, every moment creating a new
             society as he destroys the old." Yippies favorite way to alienate the majority culture was by
             saying "*censored*." Rubin explained the power of profanity by complaining that the establishment has
             taken all the good words and destroyed them. "Love, how can I
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