I like universal health care and free or almost-free higher education and also, some of my parents’ friends and my teachers’ parents died in re-education camps created by a government that called itself the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.https://twitter.com/knguyen/status/1022538953579290624 …
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And to its own soldiers. My grandfather is in severe pain every day from his Vietnam days, and much of his disability is linked to Agent Orange exposure.
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Seems like it is under-appreciated that in the wake of colonialism in east asia, both the communists and their opponents were engaged in widespread human rights abuses
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E.g., Kai-Shek & Mao, Rhee & Il-Sung, etc., etc.
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Honestly "X atrocities happened under Y system of government" conversations aren't going to cover anyone in glory. No system is going to curb all of ppl's worst impulses
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The US did many cruel and stupid things in our unnecessary war there, but many Americans at the time, in the govt and outside it, genuinely thought that it was important to protect people from Communisn—even before the horrors of Mao and Pol Pot were fully known.
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