Canada2017 said:
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GhettoHEBear said:
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Jack and DP said:
Police are doing everything they can to avoid a Kent State photo.
Kent State was similar in retrospect possibly, but I was a little too young to get it?
But I think it too was a bunch of Jane Fonda loving anti VietNam(anti American?) liberals that got shot giving them the opportunity to play the victim card just like this would be?
Idk for sure though
It was people who didnt want to be conscripted into a needless war where the American Army was straight up murdering innocent civilians, including old people and babies, Its also worth pointing out that largely unprovoked shooting at Students armed with nothing more than a few rocks is downright disgusting.
I also think American Students getting shot and killed (2 of whom werent even protesting, they were just going to class) is actually being a Victim, no? surely getting shot for no good reason isnt "playing a card" it actually makes you a damn victim.
Somebody has been watching a little bit too much BBC
have you never heard of the My Lai massacre? your own troops straight up murdered Civilians, theres photographic evidence of it (I wont post it here, its not pleasant, but its not hard to find), there were Court Martials (with incredibly lenient punishments) and this is just the most well known example,
Ever heard of the Dresden Firebombing ?
You Brits incinerated over 50,000 civilians in one night .
A totally unjustified strike with only a few weeks left in the war .
Concentration camps were first used by you Brits in the 2nd Boer War . Your army couldn't beat a handful of militia so you rounded up their families put them in camps ....where they died by the thousands of disease and neglect .
India .....you Brits allowed MILLIONS to starve to death .
Time and time again .
China...you Brits forced the Chinese government to accept OPIUM by the tons . Even fought a war with over it . All because you Brits had trade imbalance with China .
Dresden was a joint British and American operation and an attack against a target with significant Military importance, its always a Tragedy when Civilians get killed as part of these operations and im sure more could have been done to prevent it, but it is worlds apart from going into a village of unarmed civilians and slaughtering them
Concentration Camps were actually first used by the Spanish in the Ten Years War with Cuba, 30 years before the Boer war, America also used Concentration Camps during the Phillipine-American War which happened at the same time as the Boer war in which the British used them
India has been plagued by Famines, with and without the British there, its fair to point out that British rule did nothing to improve matters in that regard and, indeed, often made it worse
Opium, at the time, as i gather, was entirely legal ad the British were protecting their trade interests, it wasnt the first war to be fought over such things and certainly wasnt the last.
None of these things are good things to have happened, i dont recall saying that the British are perfect, we certainly arent, im happy to take criticism where it is due, you, it seems, are not.
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