bearboiblakeMar 22

YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted and only received three years of house arrest

https://pawb.social/post/41558649

YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon. - Pawb.Social

> At least 347 and up to 504 civilians, almost all women, children and elderly men, were murdered by U.S. Army soldiers. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated, and some soldiers mutilated and raped children as young as 12. > only Lieutenant William Calley Jr., the leader of 1st Platoon in C Company, was convicted. He was found guilty of murdering 22 villagers and originally given a life sentence, but served three-and-a-half years under house arrest after his sentence was commuted. > Research has highlighted that the My Lai Massacre was not an isolated war crime. Nick Turse places it within a larger pattern of American atrocities enabled by deliberate policies from commanders, such as “free-fire zones” and “body counts”, as well as widespread racism amongst American military personnel. Many other atrocities were also covered up by commanders.

Show threadModern_medicine_isntMar 23
The issue here is humans. In large groups humans do terrible things. Usually in small group interactions they are pretty decent. It’s very odd. But probably the result of evolution. Other branches of “human” that didn’t act this way were probably wiped out by those that did.
Show threadAtomicMar 23

Please tell me you’re not trying to excuse the rape of civilians as “it’s just what humans do”.

It has nothing to do with evolution. These were angry men, taking out their frustration and anger of being drafted, watching their friends die for nothing in a jungle, on the local population. Rather than the government that sent them there in the first place.

The source of their anger fueling their ruthlessness is not evolutionary. It’s manufactured by the ones that sent them there in the first place.

Neither of which justifies rape or mutilation in any way. But it’s why they were capable of doing what they did. Anger and hate.

Show threadModern_medicine_isntMar 23
I’m not excusing it in any way.
I wish I had a way to advance our evolution past this point so that we didn’t have a significant portion of the population that are monsters.
Show threadAtomicMar 23
Evolution. You keep using that word. But I don’t think it means what you think it means. Because this has nothing to do with evolution. Why are you trying to make this into some kind of evolutionary instinct?
Show threadModern_medicine_isntMar 24
The answer to that is literally the last sentence of my first comment. I’m pretty sure you have a very narrow definition of what evolution means. But even the normal narrow one covers what I said above. It’s practically a textbook case.
Show threadAtomicMar 24

US soldiers in Vietnam raping and mutilating civilians is a textbook case of evolution? What textbooks are you reading?

You are so confidently wrong it’s astonishing. You must know you have no idea what you’re talking about.

Show threadModern_medicine_isnt
Wow. Learn to read.
Mar 24 at 6:00pmWeb
Show threadAtomicMar 24
It’s not a problem of me not knowing how to read. It’s a problem of you writing bullshit that’s just not true.