Seriously — this thread went sideways. It started when someone decided to redefine the word murderer as America. As ridiculous a claim as possible, unless of course you have zero understanding of what America is.

I have conceded from the emergence of the thread that America has committed genocide.

Sadly, I’ll also bring up that your use of contemporary technology and media owes so much to American ingenuity and innovation that you might reconsider your attachment to it. Just sayin’.

I also remember you clutching after your pearls when I mentioned that other states have engaged in brutal, despicable acts of genicidal oppression. Oh — but you seem to want to make the US exceptional here when sadly it isn’t.

Well, perhaps I’ve lost the thread.

Convince me.

Please restate your specific claim? It can’t be simply that you are the superior scholar, right? So go ahead — state it?

Loved that exhaustive list of just societies. Nice. You win.

And you seem perfectly willing to completely disregard those wars, oppression, and tyranny because it doesn’t service the narrative that… what? That no country has ever been as horrible as the United States? Really?

And… it’s a controversial topic but yes, the ancient Egyptians used slaves. So… it does not absolve the US for a single second — what the US did was hideous and horrible.

Hardly however makes America mean murderer.

You are clearly not reading my comments. There’s no denial here.

Also: no antagonism coming from me.

Pure civility.

And hope for a better future.

Let’s get the facts straight:

https://www.statista.com/chart/22057/countries-most-active-trans-atlantic-slave-trade/

And… more name calling. Nice.

Well… that sounds pretty vegan. Awesome.

What I’m saying is that their deliberate brutalities are mistakes.