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    • PowerUser [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Next you'll be telling me that the US deployed biological weapons of mass destruction during their bombing of North Korea in the 1950s!

      • RedArquebus1917 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Or telling me that there are clear medical care disparities for black people that Covid has only made more apparent!

        • BASED_BALL [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          wouldn't it be funny if we sold aids contaminated medication in africa because paying settlements was cheaper than throwing it all away?

        • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
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          4 years ago
          Allegations	Edit
          

          During 1951, as the war turned against the United States, the Chinese and North Koreans made vague allegations of biological warfare, but these were not pursued.[6][7][8] General Matthew Ridgway, United Nations Commander in Korea, denounced the initial charges as early as May 1951. He accused the communists of spreading "deliberate lies". A few days later, Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy repeated the denials.[8]

          On 28 January 1952, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army headquarters received a report of a smallpox outbreak southeast of Incheon. From February to March 1952, more bulletins reported disease outbreaks in the area of Chorwon, Pyongyang, Kimhwa and even Manchuria.[9] The Chinese soon became concerned when 13 Korean and 16 Chinese soldiers contracted cholera and the plague, while another 44 recently deceased were tested positive for meningitis.[10] Although the Chinese and the North Koreans did not know exactly how the soldiers contracted the diseases, the suspicions soon fell on the Americans.[9]

          On 22 February 1952, the North Korean Foreign Ministry made a formal allegation that American planes had been dropping infected insects onto North Korea. This was immediately denied by the US government. The accusation was supported by eye-witness accounts by the Australian reporter Wilfred Burchett and others.[11][12]

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

        • PowerUser [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          In addition to the 'allegations' below, there was a scientific report that was recently unearthed that went into detail on the US use of smallpox, cholera and anthrax.

          See https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-long-suppressed-korean-war-report-on-u-s-use-of-biological-weapons-released-at-last-20d83f5cee54

          This was also only a few years after the US provided immunity and paid ~$40 million to the Japanese war criminals who operated Unit 731 (which was also covered up for decades).

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Haha, yeah. Imagine the US infecting people in their country with a disease to kill them off for political reasons. They're never done that before hahaHahAhAHa :agony-immense:

  • deshara218 [any]
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    4 years ago

    fun fact the month the Soviet Union collapsed congress repealed the part of the law that said white people aren't allowed to have any power on Alaskan Native councils, starting a cottage industry of white people flying bush planes out over native villages with valueable mineral or oil deposits that white people used to legally not be able to get to without negotiating a beneficial deal with the local council to air-drop crates of hard drugs for free to get native people hooked so they'd abandon everyone & everything they know to get to anchorage & sell off their voting share on the local native council that they inherited (which is worth money, some of them get so many dividends from the council redistributing mineral & oil rights to their community that they all just live off of that & have free council-paid healthcare for life) in exchange for a fix before being left for dead to freeze to the pavement at night in the Anchorage winter in something that looks suspiciously like the US genociding indigenous people with smallpox blankets.

  • 420clownpeen [they/them,any]
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    4 years ago

    Sometimes critiques can be made for propaganda purposes, while also being mostly or even completely factual. A moral response, then, would be to actually do something about those facts rather than defensively denying everything, but reddit brains are too smooth to contemplate this.