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[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In this thread there's been a lot of handwaving about "war is hell." You said war is desensitizing and that the peoole who did war crimes were "unstable."

Thats really common when US war crimes are brought up. "Well obviously war is hell/war is desensitizing/they were just crazy," gets deployed, instead of the most obvious thing staring us in the face - the core US value of white supremecy.

War is hell. What about the culture of white supremacy, genocide, rascism, and aparthied the men who commited these crimes came from? Was it really just war that desensitized them?

You may not, even probably aren't falling into this consciously. But you are making excuses for war crimes and the reality of what the US actually is.

this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2024
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