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Yesterday I had an argument on Quora... someone mentioned something about the Nazi being the ultimate evil country or something, and another guy complained that
by speeder 11y ago
Yesterday I had an argument on Quora... someone mentioned something about the Nazi being the ultimate evil country or something, and another guy complained that people think US is evil.
Another post then said it was a "PR" problem... this made me take offense (since I am from one country where US did deliberate evil actions, and I know people personally affected), and I decided to past a list of stuff US did (Condor, Gladio, MKUltra, a list of dictators, and so on... it was about 30 things).
One guy then replied that it was "legitimate war acts", after more arguing, I found out that US people think that when Nazi are evil, they are evil, but when US do evil stuff, sometimes even more evil than the Nazi, it is "legitimate war acts".
Seemly people honestly believe that the US government can do no wrong, and that whatever it do had a good reason.
- Lawtonfogle 11y agoIt is us vs them mentality. Very few evil people think themselves evil. In the same way, very few people think the us are evil. Evil is something that only belongs to the them.
- swah 11y agoRegarding Brazil, do you mean USA participating in the 1964 coup d'état?
- speeder 11y agoYes, and the ongoing actions of USA (CIA seemly helped some people here get "disappeared"). Until recently, some people here believed that accusing USA of participating in the coup was "tinfoil hat crazy", then CIA recently declassified stuff due to its age, and revealed that USA participation went more than expected (originally people just believed that CIA funded protests, propaganda, and gave intelligence support... the declassified documents showed that CIA did all that, AND US also sent a aircraft carrier + several ships to our coast, and threatened to bomb the loyalist army, this is why when the loyal army and the coup army faced each other near Rio de Janeiro the president suddenly told them to stand down and left the country).