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> and in the last 300 years, it's hard to find a country that has abused more human rights.

Surely, between:

- The Armenian Genocide

- The Holocaust

- The Holdomor

- Pogroms

- Apartheid regimes

- Purges of the Bourgeoisie

- One Child Policy

I find it hard to think that the US (With it's many, many fuck-ups) is the only, let alone the -worst- guilty party in the last 100 years.

O wait, if we only counted the last 100 years the 'great leap forward' would suddenly look a lot less great... wouldn't it?

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I find it hard to think that the US (With it's many, many fuck-ups) is the only, let alone the -worst- guilty party in the last 100 years.

Slavery and native American genocides are pretty bad - as well as the countless countries US has invaded/bombed.

But anyways, are we trying to estimate which country has done more bad in the last 300 years? China or US? And are you willing to become more pro-China if we conclude that the US has done more bad?

The US also initiated many famines. For instance, there was one in 2020 that US policy contributed to.

The US is a net food exporter. What you are saying is propaganda, not fact. The US is the largest food-Aid donator. The US has shipped millions of pounds of food around the world to feed people… for free. We are talking billions a year in spending.

https://www.wfpusa.org/articles/1-millionth-ton-american-whe...

>>Slavery and native American genocides are pretty bad

Any student of history would understand that China colonizing the north american continent would have been much much worse for Native Americans. There currently are slaves in China right now.

Oh wow. Worse than the complete annihilation of an entire large continent of people?

Are we now blaming China for genocide of Native Americans too?

No, they are pointing out that for all of your bolstering, China today is doing things that the global purview thinks are far worse than what the US is doing, again, today.

Please remember that comments on HN are meant to be in good faith towards the discussion of the article, and regardless of any factual inconsistencies that may or may not be present in your statements, they are off topic and potentially trolling.

I think we can all agree that slavery is bad.

Hopefully it will be ended in North America sometime soon (fingers crossed).

‘Slavery by any name is wrong’: the push to end forced labor in prisons

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/27/slavery-loop...

Slavery and the U.S. Prison System

https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/06/05/2021/slavery-...

Contemporary slavery in the United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_slavery_in_the_Un...

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