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In reply to the discussion: Saudi Arabia fatally bombs ANOTHER Yemeni hospital + 18 Billion in US weapons + Bowie [View all]EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)I have to draw a line in a place that most people I talk to can be guaranteed to not go mental over...
I'd rather have productive discussions than arguments, and firebombing Tokyo .. or Dresden... well, even now many Americans assume these were well deserved punishments...
And honestly, I've never hd good luck convincing people otherwise...
But why stop at the 40s?
Between 1900 and 1940 something like 65,000 people - American citizens - were forcibly sterilized by states and the federal government. Thousands of poor and minority women were sterilized secretly in the south as well.
The government ROUTINELY injected unsuspecting children and prisoners and poor people with all sorts of diseases for decades before that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States#Early_20th_century
Were were also running medical tests on prisoners in other countries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiment
Bear in mind that happened from 1946-48, AFTER the US knew about German medical testing... that didn't stop us from doing it in Guatemala and other places around the world.
And this all goes on and on back through time, to slavery, to the Native Americans genocide... heck, Christopher Columbus, as everyone now knows, was a little Hitler, and yet we all worship him as kids growing up...
sigh