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Originally Posted by chocapic
IMHO each act has to be appraised separately, and not be added or substracted to a kind of "invoice" on the name of given country, because you can't judge people by their father's acts.
There are many things to say about the Native Americans, and on a wider scope the overall exploitation of the 3rd world by occidental powers, but it should tarnish in no way the US and their allies glorious fight against facism during WWII.
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Compared to Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, yeah, the US and the Allies look really good. But do you really want us to just be the lesser of two evils? Let's look at the US at that time; rampant racism and segregation in the south, meddling in the politics of practically all of its Latin American neighbors, and fresh off its trumped up war against Spain that gave it control over Puerto Rico and the Phillipines and the truly shameful annexation of Hawaii. And all of this was made possible by the genocide and ethnic cleansing carried out by earlier generations.