[kristopolous]

Every global power becomes one by exercising power, globally.

Claiming the existence of problems justifies these types of policies is an argument of convenience where the policy is fixed and someone is just fishing for reasons.

We ignore it when it's Saudi Arabia or the child slave driven mines of Central Africa and bring it up when there's a possibility of encroachment.

The world is terrible, we should do better. But carving out Chinese manufacturers of smartphones isn't how you'll get there.

[wil421]

You can’t look at history through modern lenses. Just because Germany, the US, or Europe did something bad 80-150 years doesn’t make it right today!

[magicsmoke]

If those actors really thought what they did was bad they would be trying to revert the outcomes of their actions. Do you see the US moving non-native descendants out of vast swaths of American to set up native-american countries, or paying native survivors the fair land value of all the lands they were driven from? Talk is cheap, watch the hands.

[kristopolous]

Again, every large power gets there by exercising it, continually, throughout the duration of their existence.

Look at standing rock, America's war against the indigenous isn't over.

[rumanator]

> Look at standing rock, America's war against the indigenous isn't over.

By your measuring stick, where do you place Tiana men's massacre?

[luckylion]

Kent State was barely 50 years though, and sending Predator Drones after anyone suspected to even tangentially be related to terrorism is current policy.

If the US still had an ethnic minority that lived predominately in one area and has been active in terrorism and islamist extremism, I don't think they'd handle it gracefully. Abu Ghraib gives us an idea about what the US would do in a similar situation and it's not been that long.