Memes

The 1% how much taxes they pay

You can tell the poster is American because they blame the government involved for all of these except the US, where they blamed the CIA.

Don't ask OP about the use of prepositions

The Australian's about their treatment of ~~aborigines~~ first nation Australians

The Irish about mother and baby homes.

China about Uyghurs

Never ask a Lemmy user where they've hidden the good posts.

The US about indigenous Americans.

Oh wait, they made hundreds of movies about killing them.

"Was there a massacre in Tiananmen Square?"

—"No."

"Were people killed elsewhere in Beijing?"

—"...Ermh..."

"Ahem. I am asking you if people were killed in the area immediately surrounding Tiananmen Square, even if nobody was killed in the square itself."

—"The protesters in Tiananmen Square left after negotiations with the PLA. There was no bloodshed in Tiananmen Square."

"I understand that, but were people killed elsewhere in Beijing?"

—"Nowhere in Beijing were student protestors specifically targeted."

"Well, were non-students targeted, and were any students injured or killed without being targeted?"

—"Hey did you know that the Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest—"

"Gongchandang, my friend, I am begging you."

—"...Force may have been used when provoked by attacks."

"May force have also been used unprovoked? Could it have been that the protesters felt like they were provoked first, because you were sending tanks past the barricades that they'd put up?"

—"I mean... you know... uhh..."

"Gongchandang. Were you scared that the occupation of Beijing and the potential of a workers' revolt would threaten the survival of socialism in China, by presenting a still-socialist alternative to your rule, because societal division particularly among the less politically literate could be (and was) exploited by outside forces?"

—"OUR YOUTH ARE VULNERABLE TO IMPERIALIST PROPAGANDA, OK‽ ALSO, TANK MAN DIDN'T GET RUN OVER. SEE. HE WAS PULLED AWAY BY A PASSERBY. NOT RUN OVER."

I don't know if I would have used Tiananmen Square.

The Uighur re-education cities seems far more fitting.

The Canadian government about the canadian indian residential school system

The Iran government about Salman Rushdie

The Mexican government about Ayotzinapas 43

The British government about their museums

The German government about their car manufacturers.

The Indian government about Aasif Sultan

The Russian government about how much the war in Ukraine should have lasted.

And many more...

Do let me know btw if you know of anymore of this.

Edit:

Aded russia

Never forget about the vicious emu war in Australia either, our shameful defeat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War

How a person reacts to being asked about the version of these things most close to them is telling. If they get defensive and deny the event happened, I would hesitate to trust their opinion on other things. Clearly that person bases their opinions on what they want to be true rather than reality. That's the kind of person whose ideology would likely lead to another event to be ashamed of. If, on the other hand, they admit it was a horrible thing and agree that people should be educated on it and that steps should be taken to prevent it from ever happening again, then I'm more likely to take their opinion seriously and believe that they can be part of the conversations we need to happen to create a better world.

Don't forget Unit 731 for the imperial Japanese as well.

Don't ask the UK anything about their troubling history with black people or slavery unless it's to mention that they were one of the first countries to stop making black people property. They get really mad if you mention anything but that.

Was about to comment "the germans about ww2" but then remembered that we are quite open about that time. Wouldn't have made much sense either as there would be no use in evem trying to hide it

The Russians about Central Asian colonialism.

In Thailand:

• 6 October
• Bloody May
• The K--g Never Smiles
• The Devil's Discus
• "Unfortunately Some People Died"

The Australians: About the indigenous Tasmanians

The creator of this meme: proper contrast

Don't ask the French (Police) what happened in 17 October 1961

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961

Russia about Balkars, Crimean Tatars, Chechens, Ingush, Karachays, Kalmyks, Koreans or Meskhetian Turks

We should make this list longer

Man, women really don't like to be asked about their age don't they?

The US Walk of Shame was much worse than the Coups

Feel free to ask. Switzerland answered: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergier_commission

Not to be pedantic about a meme but I would consider the US repeatedly detonating nuclear weapons on the Marshall Islands and then doing jack shit to clean up the mess to be worse than any coup.

67 of them to be exact. 70 years later, the Marshallese are still the ones paying the price of that incredibly bad decision.

The Canadian Government about Residential Schools

It's almost like every government commits atrocities at some point or another.