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My question (as an American) is: what ugly thing happened in the US that most of us don't know about?

samstave 8y ago
Firebombing of Japan Bombing the shit out of Laos Massive numbers killed in the CIA operations overthrowing governments in South America The duplicitous and two-faced foreign policies which fund genocides and killings all over the globe while we try to put on some good face about making the world a better more democratic place Selling arms to murderous regimes who torture and kill as we turn a blind eye to profits Repatriating Nazis responsible for the war crimes we decry in order to get their tech/medical advancements The extent at which Native Americans were murdered Lots and lots of things get rose-colored glasses because the populous lives rather comfortable now...
- Fjolsvith 8y ago
  > The extent at which Native Americans were murdered This is the only one you gave that actually was committed against Americans in the US.
Razengan 8y ago
• The CIA's experiments on American and Canadian citizens [0][1]. • Plans to nuke the Moon [2]. are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Not sure if they count as "that most of us don't know about." [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A119 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A119
NeedMoreTea 8y ago
Being the first nation on the globe to bring in eugenics based compulsory sterilisation laws, which influenced Nazi ideas. Some survived surprisingly long after the war, the last until the 1970s. The Rockefeller Foundation helped develop and fund various German eugenics programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States
sueders101 8y ago
My go to for this is question is the `Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male` (aka. Tuskegee Experiments). Where government clinicians withheld the diagnose and treatment of syphilis from the 'participants'. The men were instead told they had 'bad blood'. This lasted into the 1970s. Only ending due to an upstanding epidemiologist, Peter Buxtun, going to the press. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Buxtun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Buxtun
herojian 8y ago
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/national-prison-strike-launches-over-underpaid-labor-and-prison-conditions.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/national-prison-... Mind your business and we'll mind ours, smug hypocrites
sitkack 8y ago
"Buying" human experimentation data from Japan in exchange for amnesty for prosecution of war crimes (Patton). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 https://warpardons.wordpress.com/unit-731/ https://warpardons.wordpress.com/unit-731/
mhh__ 8y ago
MKULTRA? Difficult to guess how many americans/Chinese know about a topic, however.
- jamiepenney 8y ago
  MKULTRA is my go to, because it sounds just like a crazy conspiracy theory (down to the wacky name), but it actually happened.
princeb 8y ago
maybe this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot where a large, fairly wealthy neighbourhood of black people was firebombed by the local militia.

Firebombing of Japan Bombing the shit out of Laos Massive numbers killed in the CIA operations overthrowing governments in South America The duplicitous and two-faced foreign policies which fund genocides and killings all over the globe while we try to put on some good face about making the world a better more democratic place Selling arms to murderous regimes who torture and kill as we turn a blind eye to profits Repatriating Nazis responsible for the war crimes we decry in order to get their tech/medical advancements The extent at which Native Americans were murdered Lots and lots of things get rose-colored glasses because the populous lives rather comfortable now...

Fjolsvith 8y ago
> The extent at which Native Americans were murdered This is the only one you gave that actually was committed against Americans in the US.

Razengan 8y ago

• The CIA's experiments on American and Canadian citizens [0][1]. • Plans to nuke the Moon [2]. are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Not sure if they count as "that most of us don't know about." [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A119 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A119

NeedMoreTea 8y ago

Being the first nation on the globe to bring in eugenics based compulsory sterilisation laws, which influenced Nazi ideas. Some survived surprisingly long after the war, the last until the 1970s. The Rockefeller Foundation helped develop and fund various German eugenics programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States

sueders101 8y ago

My go to for this is question is the `Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male` (aka. Tuskegee Experiments). Where government clinicians withheld the diagnose and treatment of syphilis from the 'participants'. The men were instead told they had 'bad blood'. This lasted into the 1970s. Only ending due to an upstanding epidemiologist, Peter Buxtun, going to the press. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Buxtun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Buxtun

herojian 8y ago

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/national-prison-strike-launches-over-underpaid-labor-and-prison-conditions.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/national-prison-... Mind your business and we'll mind ours, smug hypocrites

sitkack 8y ago

"Buying" human experimentation data from Japan in exchange for amnesty for prosecution of war crimes (Patton). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 https://warpardons.wordpress.com/unit-731/ https://warpardons.wordpress.com/unit-731/

mhh__ 8y ago

MKULTRA? Difficult to guess how many americans/Chinese know about a topic, however.

jamiepenney 8y ago
MKULTRA is my go to, because it sounds just like a crazy conspiracy theory (down to the wacky name), but it actually happened.

princeb 8y ago

maybe this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot where a large, fairly wealthy neighbourhood of black people was firebombed by the local militia.