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So it was a less bad massacre of protesters by government forces. Shall we forget about it, and claim it doesn’t happen here? Hell no.
by robotresearcher 8y ago
So it was a less bad massacre of protesters by government forces. Shall we forget about it, and claim it doesn’t happen here?
Hell no.
- simonh 8y agoBecause forgetting about it was exactly what I was suggesting? Those straw men burn real nice, don't they.
- robotresearcher 8y agoI named Kent State as an example of a US massacre of protestors, in response to a parent saying it doesn’t happen in the US. That’s all.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> I named Kent State as an example of a US massacre of protestors, in response to a parent saying it doesn’t happen in the US Tianamen was a massacre, but it was much more than that. If you think these incidents are comparable, you may find reading about them rewarding.
- robotresearcher 8y agoThey don’t have to be equivalent for Kent State to have been a US based massacre of protestors.
- DmenshunlAnlsis 8y agoIf we’re calling 4 people killed a massacre, then the word has just lost all meaning. It was horrible, criminal, and infamous, but massacre is hyperbole especially when compared to the thousand+ (someone else in this thread posted a BBC article citing 10,000) killed at Tiananmen it’s not even remotely similar.