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by robotresearcher 2886 days ago
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.
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JumpCrisscross 2886 days ago
> 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.

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robotresearcher 2886 days ago
They don’t have to be equivalent for Kent State to have been a US based massacre of protestors.
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DmenshunlAnlsis 2886 days ago
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.
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