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The Founding Fathers created a government that: - Led to a bloody civil war that was the most deadly war in human history (until WWI), over 600,000 Americans d
by jmyeet 2y ago
The Founding Fathers created a government that:
- Led to a bloody civil war that was the most deadly war in human history (until WWI), over 600,000 Americans dead, just ~75 years later;
- Largely wiped out the indigenous people of North America;
- Enshrined chattel slavery;
- Denied the right to vote to women (and in fact all non-white people); and
- Has been involved in, responsible for and/or complicit with many coups in the rest of the world [1].
Maybe it's not the best thing to celebrate.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
- Novosell 2y agoThe Taiping rebellion started before the American civil war and lead to far more deaths. On wikipedia the estimate is 20-30 million. Outside of that, just going to the wikipedia page for deadly wars will find many that dwarf the American civil war.
- lesuorac 2y ago> - Denied the right to vote to women (and in fact all non-white people); and It was up to the states to decide who could vote. So depending on the state you had woman voters [1]. [1]: https://www.nps.gov/articles/voting-rights-in-nj-before-the-15th-and-19th.htm https://www.nps.gov/articles/voting-rights-in-nj-before-the-...