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America is the land of the free (slrpnk.net)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca
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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No it hasn't "always been this way". Abuses like this are unusual and indicate the sorry state of the current regime. Dismissing it as normal is sloppy and irresponsible.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Did you not read my whole comment? Union busting has been a thing carried out by police and sheriffs all over this country. We have never had a good nation. Not until the New Deal was created. And now all of that is being wiped away.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I did read your whole comment. You stated that the country has "always been this way", illustrated with one example, and claimed that this sums up our whole history. It doesn't. But in our new meme-fueled standard of social discourse the world consists only of all-or-nothing Good vs Evil false dichotomies, so what's the use.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Jim fucking Crow

    Joe McCarthy

    Japanese concentration camps in the USA

    Kkk

    Confederate plantation slave owners

    George Custer's slaughter of the Cheyenne

    Andrew Jackson's Indian removal act, and the trail of tears

    Various race riots and massacres such as the many different Harlem massacres, new Orleans massacre, Tulsa massacre, first pillow massacre

    And of course where it all started, The literal beginning of what would become the United States of America

    Christopher god damned Columbus

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