[robotresearcher]

So it was a less bad massacre of protesters by government forces. Shall we forget about it, and claim it doesn’t happen here?

Hell no.

[simonh]

Because forgetting about it was exactly what I was suggesting? Those straw men burn real nice, don't they.

[robotresearcher]

I named Kent State as an example of a US massacre of protestors, in response to a parent saying it doesn’t happen in the US. That’s all.

[JumpCrisscross]

> I named Kent State as an example of a US massacre of protestors, in response to a parent saying it doesn’t happen in the US

Tianamen was a massacre, but it was much more than that. If you think these incidents are comparable, you may find reading about them rewarding.

[robotresearcher]

They don’t have to be equivalent for Kent State to have been a US based massacre of protestors.

[DmenshunlAnlsis]

If we’re calling 4 people killed a massacre, then the word has just lost all meaning. It was horrible, criminal, and infamous, but massacre is hyperbole especially when compared to the thousand+ (someone else in this thread posted a BBC article citing 10,000) killed at Tiananmen it’s not even remotely similar.