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Vietnamese here. When the communists got into the villages/cities they got a list with them and some local snitch. Everyone was on the list was rounded up, shot then buried in the mass graves. It was systematic murder.

This is the kind of stuff people that glorify the Viet Kong as some kind of freedom fighters conveniently ignore. They were fucking evil. Literally all belligerents in that war were.

Gosh, that’s awful. The Vietnam War was brutal and lots of horrible acts on all sides.

I can never get over the terrible feeling of upvoting something so horrible to raise awareness but here i am ... There needs to be a different button for this.

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[-] Atlas@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 4 months ago

I think some people feel the need to organize these things as "good team vs bad team," and when there's more to it than that, it all becomes confusing and they get all pissy and throw around jokey shit like that lol

If it's not a 70's Star Wars "Evil Empire vs Plucky Underdogs with God on their side" it's easier to just be sarcastic and callous about it than to actually read stuff and form a informed opinion.

I'm really struggling to decipher whether or not this person knows that the main inspiration for star wars was vietnam. Are they trying to say that star wars was a bad representation of the vietnam war?

I'm probably giving redditors too much credit.

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago

They probably heard that anecdote and in true Redditor fashion wanted to "Umm acktually..." at it.

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