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I don’t understand how there are so many people who are quick to condemn violence at protests, but remain silent when our government murders civilians at home and abroad on a daily basis.
If you want to condemn violence you should start with our own government.
If you want to condemn violence you should start with our own government.
For example:
you could talk about the time that
“More than A THIRD of women in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico were sterilized from the 1930s to the 1970s“ BY THE US GOVERNMENT https://www.thoughtco.com/u-s-governments-role-sterilizing-women-of-color-2834600
you could talk about the time that
“More than A THIRD of women in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico were sterilized from the 1930s to the 1970s“ BY THE US GOVERNMENT https://www.thoughtco.com/u-s-governments-role-sterilizing-women-of-color-2834600
Or the time we aided in the bombing of a school bus in Yemen and it barely made the news. https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/09/02/yemen-coalition-bus-bombing-apparent-war-crime
Or the time CPD shot and killed 21 year old Fred Hampton a leader in the Black Panther Party, in his own house next to his pregnant girlfriend who was then nine months pregnant at the time. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/davidalm/2020/06/03/the-murder-of-fred-hampton-still-has-much-to-teach-watch-it-here/amp/
Or the time US government literally stole part of an entire continent. Committing massacres like the battle of wounded knee along the way. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/topics/native-american-history/wounded-knee
Or the time our government forcibly removed Native American children from their parents and put them in boarding schools thousands of miles away to try to force cultural assimilation https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/news/how-boarding-schools-tried-to-kill-the-indian-through-assimilation
I’m going to save this one is Guantánamo Bay.
Or the time our government forced Japanese-Americans into internment camps. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
Or the time recently that our government literally put Child refugees in cages during a fucking pandemic https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gq.com/story/us-border-concentration-camps/amp
Or the uncountable number of times the US government has quashed organized labor with extreme violence
See The Pullman strike https://www.britannica.com/event/Pullman-Strike/The-injunction
See The Pullman strike https://www.britannica.com/event/Pullman-Strike/The-injunction
Or the time that we killed an estimated 2 million Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam war Which I will remind you was started in large part because of a miscommunication in the DoD to the president and Congress about the golf of Tonkin incident https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-23427726
Or the horrific My Lai Massacre https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/topics/vietnam-war/my-lai-massacre-1
It’s too horrifying to continue but I think I’ve said enough to make my point.
At times the US does step in and end a genocide such as WWII but rarely do we stop the genocides we create and/or enable when they serve US buissness interests such as what’s happening on the boarder or has and continues to happen to Indigenous people with the Keystone pipeline.
Damn I might have just found my thesis.
I know we didn’t know we didn’t enter WWII to stop a genocide but we ended up ending one by defeating the Nazis.
*It’s much more complicated than that but it’s hard to fit all of this in 240 characters.*
*It’s much more complicated than that but it’s hard to fit all of this in 240 characters.*
And by we i mean allies.
Including the Soviet Union who mind you had about 17,000,000 or 15% of their population die in WWII. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/percentage-of-countries-who-died-during-wwii-2014-5%3famp
Including the Soviet Union who mind you had about 17,000,000 or 15% of their population die in WWII. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/percentage-of-countries-who-died-during-wwii-2014-5%3famp
I don’t want to say this but just as liability insurance.
Given the history of the US government murdering people that aren’t a huge fan of imperialism and the Military industrial complex and other stuff that’s bad. I am NOT thinking about killing myself.
Given the history of the US government murdering people that aren’t a huge fan of imperialism and the Military industrial complex and other stuff that’s bad. I am NOT thinking about killing myself.
I don’t want to scare anyone and I doubt it would happen but still better safe than sorry
