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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">https://www.thoughtco.com/u-s-gover...
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">https://www.thoughtco.com/u-s-gover...
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">https://www.hrw.org/news/2018...
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/">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www...
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">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www...
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">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www...
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">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www...
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">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www...
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">https://www.britannica.com/event/Pul...
See The Pullman strike https://www.britannica.com/event/Pullman-Strike/The-injunction">https://www.britannica.com/event/Pul...
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">https://www.bbc.com/news/worl...
Or the horrific My Lai Massacre https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/topics/vietnam-war/my-lai-massacre-1">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www...
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">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www...
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">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www...
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
