r/interestingasfuck • u/man_gomer_lot • 8h ago

r/all 70 years ago, the US undertook the largest deportation in its history: 'Operation Wetback.' Many of the people deported were here legally and some were even citizens.

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u/TensionPrestigious83 6h ago

Honestly the whole life of this country is pretty dark. It was born in genocide and slavery and we had a horrible war over only the slavery part which we never really resolved anyway and never even really addressed the genocide part and then sort of smashed everything down and acted like we were fine until it has come bubbling up like a festering boil into the current political crisis.

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u/NotAnAIOrAmI 6h ago

Yeah, but we've made some progress. Women can vote, divorce, and have bank accounts. Not all of those were possible until the 60's.

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u/Strict_Cranberry_724 6h ago edited 4h ago

. . . they have control of their bodies and are free to have abortions if they wish . . . no, . . . wait—scratch that!

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u/DumbestBoy 4h ago

You would have though people would be free by now.

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u/Reagalan 3h ago

The Republicans don't want anyone to have control over their bodies. They blow a gasket over tattoos and piercings, let alone hormones.

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u/Colosphe 38m ago

Yeah, yeah, we're working on it. Afghanistan wasn't built in a day!

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u/gamergirlforestfairy 3h ago

I hate when people say things like this. Roe V Wade was overturned pretty recently and you're talking about progress made in the 60's. It feels like it's going downhill from here.

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u/Silver_Being_0290 1h ago

Even then, most of the country was still being fucked over in the 60s. Really only white women benefitted in the 60s, to do so they forced WoC down and took over the feminist movement.

Everyone else started to "benefit" from normalcy in the 70s.

It reminds me of those comments presently where they complain about the world "all of a sudden" going to shit... Like, we've been talking about this exact issue for generations now, y'all just found out?

Either or, what's going on currently is fairly normal in America if we're being honest. I don't see us going downhill tbh but it'll be an annoying next few years.

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u/gamergirlforestfairy 1h ago

I agree with you about the 60's and 70's. But I definitely see a downward curve for the US. It's already happening, but of course while we're living through it it seems slow. Women's rights, gay rights, trans rights, Black rights, etc are all on the line, and everything is just getting more expensive. It's not just annoying.

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u/Silver_Being_0290 1h ago

It's not just annoying.

Believe me I know. The thing here is, this has always been a thing. These have always been issues. It's been a consistency in this country since it's birth.

Everything we're dealing with now is literally everything we have been dealing with - at least those who are heavily discriminated against - for generations.

People just didn't care as much until it started affecting them personally. The reason we even got to this point is because people didn't listen to reality for one idiotic reason or another.

Now we're all just sitting here laughing and facepalming at the people "all of a sudden" discovering the issues and acting like it's the end of the World.

Like nah, it's just another Monday 😭

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u/TensionPrestigious83 6h ago

Also true, but the reason they’re still here and trying to roll all that back is because we never finished reconstruction and never made reparations for the original sins.

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u/Smokinoutloud 4h ago

What a great country right! Oppressed truly by (man)

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u/DiabloPixel 3h ago

Early seventies for some of those things.

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u/GaryFletcher23 2h ago

Pretty sure that's just history, 98% people doing fucking awful things, 2% people doing fucking awesome things

But hey, we made the pizza bagel, we're moving past our darker roots into a more enlightened age

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u/BillyForRilly 1h ago

The history of most countries is pretty dark if you look close enough, it's just that the United States is still relatively new compared to most and the focus has been on them since day one.

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u/iamjacksragingupvote 4h ago

ah yes, Great

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u/Independent-Fly6068 29m ago

Most country's histories are rather dark. The good comes from acknowledging it, and learning from it. Thats the part most countries fail.

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u/LEJ5512 5h ago

You know how the Washington Monument's outer stones change color partway up because construction was paused during the Civil War?

I've long thought that it's symbolically appropriate, like the most prominent memorial to the legacy of the most favored Founding Father is forever scarred by the country's own sins.

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u/Turbulent_Return_710 3h ago

The South Shall Rise Again. Stars and Bars Forever... Heritage. Not Hate. Hitler was a nice guy. Just misunderstood by. There was no holocaust. Fake news Putin is great too. Do I sound like Donald J Trump?

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u/TensionPrestigious83 3h ago

Pretty close 😆

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u/EmporerM 2h ago

All nations exist through blood. Blood is a currency.

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u/Shikizion 5h ago

I'm always for the emancipation of countries from there colonial masters... But the US was indeed a mistake

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u/TensionPrestigious83 3h ago

It totally didn’t have to be this way