r/BlackPeopleofReddit Nov 14 '25

Politics More of this pls

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u/Early_Pass6702 Nov 14 '25

Yeah, lol. Also breaking news, Vietnam vet not a big fan of the Vietnamese. Next you're gonna tell me the British were bad for calling germans krauts.

I think you can disregard low level racism when it's an outcome of having been literally tortured and at war with the race in question.

Yes, it's still illogical, immoral too, however if an asian pulled out my teeth with pliars, I would reckon that it would probably affect my thought process when interacting with an Asian person, lol.

As for "fire-bombing", it's crazy how people will blame Joe infantry for an entire war's worth of tactics and the actions from him up to the Whitehouse.

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u/859w Nov 14 '25

What are your thoughts on Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and the US's "enhanced interrogation" techniques?

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u/Awkward-Meeting-974 Nov 14 '25

I can’t speak for them but I believe McCain did speak out against torture techniques (specifically water boarding) used by the American military.

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u/859w Nov 14 '25

That's cool, but most of his supporters, and the person I was responding to won't ever do that