Message from @Stalin

2019-01-01 01:37:43 UTC

"It's okay that we supported two different genocides because some other countries also did bad things!"
Reeks of whataboutism.

ACentralScrutinizer

2019-01-01 01:37:49 UTC

Plessy V. Ferguson —> Brown V. Board of education —> more expansive civil rights laws of the 60s for a domestic example, also the apology and and reimbursement of the Japanese interned in the 40s, and the Marshall plan and rebuilding Germany and Japan is a good example abroad.

ACentralScrutinizer

2019-01-01 01:38:40 UTC

I know we didn’t stay isolationist, I never said otherwise. I said we dropped it starting in the 20th century and fully abandoned post WW2

DA GOMMIE JOO

2019-01-01 01:38:56 UTC

So the US had to expand civil rights through court cases because just obeying the Constitution was too hard, huh?

DA GOMMIE JOO

2019-01-01 01:40:15 UTC

And the Philippine-American war ended in 1898, so there's your 'started in the 20th century'.

ACentralScrutinizer

2019-01-01 01:42:08 UTC

Well yes. This is the issue that our country was divided on since its inception. Constitutional affairs have never been quite so cut and dry. It took nearly two centuries, but the power of our system enabled us to reach that point. And that’s basically splitting hairs. It’s the ass end of the 19th century/very beginning of the 20th. And during that time period we were only trying to keep up with the contemporary colonial powers of the time.

ACentralScrutinizer

2019-01-01 01:43:34 UTC

Also, the inherent contradiction of slavery and colonialism and the constitution from the start was already dissolving the latter institutions. It didn’t last very long. Americans colonial history is a blip compared to some the other big European colonial machines.

DA GOMMIE JOO

2019-01-01 01:46:45 UTC

America doesn't get a bad rep for colonialism because they didn't directly take the land.
They set up puppets instead.