What terrible things have been done in American history?
John Biles
1,Slavery. Starting in 1619; there were four million slaves by 1860.
2,Beating your wife was generally legal in the US for a very long time.
3,Raping your wife was also legal.
4,The US killed and dispossessed 100s of 1000s of Native Americans, stealing their land.
5 ,We infected Blacks with smallpox while telling them we were treating them for diseases (Tuskeegee experiment)
6,We loan-sharked just about every major Caribbean island, sometimes occupying them for over a decade to extort money from them.
7,Our ambassador to Mexico helped General Huerta murder the freely elected president of Mexico, helping to cause a decade long civil war that killed a million people.
8,We beat up Mexico and took half its land.
9,We slaughtered each other in a civil war to the tune of 750,000 dead.
10,We allowed defeated Southern traitors to take over the South and run a racial segregation system for a century.
11,Southerners and Confederate wannabes put up monuments to traitors all over.
12,We punched out Spain and took its colonies, then killed thousands of Phillipinos who wanted independence.
13,We joined an eight nation alliance to punch China in the face.
14,We stole the entire nation of Panama from Colombia.
15,We beat up and killed Blacks in repeated race riots, including literally bombing blacks in Tulsa in 1921.
16,We also bombed striking miners in the 1920s
17,The US army has beat up a lot of strikers over the years.
18,We let the wealthy run riot, doing things like killing their own employees with unsafe equipment and did nothing for decades about it.
19,We polluted America to the point that in the 1970s, the river through Chicago was *flammable*.
20,We buried our cities in smog.
21,We backed dictators around the world in the 1940s to 80s because they were anti-communist.
22,We overthrew elected democratic governments which threatened US businesses or might have if
23,we’d left them intact long enough to do anything.
24,We send drones which lay waste to places in our war on terror, killing terrorist and civilian alike.
Among other things.
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John Biles's answer: 1. Slavery. Starting in 1619; there were four million slaves by 1860. 2. Beating your wife was generally legal in the US for a very long time. 3. Raping your wife was also legal. 4. The US killed and dispossessed 100s of 1000s of Native Americans, stealing their land. 5. We i...
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