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[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Did you just completely ignore the genocide and slavery? It's not an elephant in the room, it's a whole herd of elephants. How the fuck do you call others backwards, when you yourselves are backwards religious idiots who ban abortion?

How can you be so racist as to call Chinese, who are POC, backwards? Name anyone they enslaved or genocided. No Jim Crow, no KKK.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Slavery and genocide are rather far in our past. Further we have enough common sense to be ashamed of our ancestors. How long ago was the Great Leap Forward? Good ol' Mr. 70-30.

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Ah yes, the Great Leap Forward, which was three years, followed by the American war in Vietnam, which was ten.

As for genocide, the Americans outsourced that one. Now they let others do their dirty work of slaughtering black people.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/mar/31/usa.rwanda

President Bill Clinton's administration knew Rwanda was being engulfed by genocide in April 1994 but buried the information to justify its inaction, according to classified documents made available for the first time.

Senior officials privately used the word genocide within 16 days of the start of the killings, but chose not to do so publicly because the president had already decided not to intervene.

It took Hutu death squads three months from April 6 to murder an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus and at each stage accurate, detailed reports were reaching Washington's top policymakers.

The documents undermine claims by Mr Clinton and his senior officials that they did not fully appreciate the scale and speed of the killings.

"It's powerful proof that they knew," said Alison des Forges, a Human Rights Watch researcher and authority on the genocide.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

You missed Cambodia, where Nixon/Kissinger did not intervene. Yep, the Americans cannot stop the Old World people from trying to establish ethnic states as often as you like. We cannot be the world's policeman. Besides, when we do try to keep the genocidal maniacs of the Old World in their boxes (Korea, Vietnam) people complain too.

Damned when we do. Damned when we don't.

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The only winning move is not to play.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Let the killers slaughter people and just stand by? People complain about that too.

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Fuck 'em. One costs us money and valuable American lives. One doesn't. The morally correct choice is clear.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Helping the weak is always a good choice.

A good person does what he can when he can, where he can as well as he can, as often as he can. He is not required to do everything everywhere all the time perfectly.