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> And we DEFINITELY do not do forced sterilization rofl. No? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_Board_of_North_Carolina https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E
by xtian 6y ago
> And we DEFINITELY do not do forced sterilization rofl.
No? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_Board_of_North_Carolina https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_Board_of_North_Caro... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
- mlindner 6y agoI used current tense. Not past tense. There was all sorts of weird stuff that happened around the time of Nazism in Germany, including strong proponents of Nazism in the US at that time. Lest we not forget the internment of Americans of Japanese descent civilians during WW2. Again, these are unfortunate things that happened in the past. None of that justifies any other country doing anything in modern day. It's like saying "Oh Germany had Nazis during WW2 so having Nazis today is okay."
- xtian 6y agoThere have been accusations that ICE has performed forced sterilizations, but for now it remains at the level of conspiracy theory. It's easy to talk about how "unfortunate" US atrocities were and insist they're "in the past" after the cover-up campaigns have successfully concluded. But why would these institutions change when they succeeded at their aims and no one was ever held accountable? Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay are not in the distant past.