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You could argue that the treatment of Native Indians is just as bad if not worse - hundreds of thousands have been killed directly, and their descendants suffer because US has nearly entirely eradicated their culture and identity. And sure, there are no concentration camps, but putting an entire ethnic group inside a reservation without means to support themselves is not exactly great either.

And US didn't build islands, sure - it just gets CIA to overthrow governments and replace them with ones much friendlier to their business.

Of course, no one is saying that the countries are equivalent. Just that superpowers are going to do evil superpower shit.



I think the OP should have said ACTIVE, i dont think any of those things are ACTIVE in the us

Sure be critical of the past, but we also have a recognize the difference from past mistakes and On Going, Current atrocities.


Native Americans are still suffering as an ethnicity in the US - while they are free to leave the reservations and won't be punished for doing so, many don't have the means to do so because those means have been taken from them and their ancestors in the past. They suffer from much higher drug use percentage, huge unemployment, and increased crime rates where they live, and that's something that was and is forced upon them.

So no, maybe Native Americans aren't being actively prosecuted for who they are - but they definitely haven't been made whole by the American people.

Again, it's apples Vs oranges. Native American reservations aren't as bad as Uighur concentration camps, but just because it's in the past it shouldn't be ignored. Germany pays wartime reparations to this day, even though they could easily say that Nazi crimes are in the past now.




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