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Ask some of us from victim countries. You'll find no one praising the interventions the US made for the profit of its ruling class.
by lucian1900 6y ago
Ask some of us from victim countries. You'll find no one praising the interventions the US made for the profit of its ruling class.
- refulgentis 6y agoConflating your experience as one of the countries on that list, deeply, genuinely, hurt, with others such as Nazi Germany, genocidal Japan, etc. does an extreme disservice to your experience. You don't need to defend a lazy link to a Wikipedia article to defend your story :)
- monkey_monkey 6y agoPutting s smiley at the end of that patronising paragraph reveals a lot about you and your motives.
- refulgentis 6y agoDoes dismissing the humanity of the person you're engaging with, based solely on a smiley, reveal anything about your motives? Historically, HN avoids this kind of personality-focused commenting, particularly when it involves telling other people what they're thinking. I, among others sympathetic to your care for other people and the impact of US regime change, would appreciate it if you would try the same. If you feel comparing, say, atrocities in Vietnam like My Lai to defeating Nazi Germany is justified, you're free to make that argument, and I won't try to divine your motives or politics in doing so. You don't need to make up reasons to other me for holding there's a huge gap between US regime change in Germany and Vietnam, and that it is at best lazy and at worst erasure to do so. On HN, the quality of moderation & discussion is such that it can move at a more principled pace than Twitter.