Understood. I wasn’t trying to convey that, but I can definitely see it in what I said. I was trying to say “hey, this isn’t just cause Americans are sick fucks. Any group can get here with the right conditions. Know that, understand it, and work to actively avoid it”

I will one hundred percent own that bringing up China made my comment xenophobic. It honestly completely derailed what I was attempting to convey.

The question now is, how do I point out to a group of people labeling something as evil, which is distancing language, that this is something that all humans are capable of? Not because humans are inherently evil or cruel, I don’t actually believe that, but because we can make systems that are uncaring and grind both victim and perpetrators to dust beneath them. That imagery of horrors should be viewed as a cautionary tale to every person on this planet about what we’re collectively capable of and need to work to stop. Not something to point at and go “that group bad” cause that’s simultaneously unhelpful and completely misses the lesson.

Yeah, but that doesn’t really clarify, though. Does that mean that a woman could wear a hijab or burqa under your rule?

I’m having difficulty parsing this. Are you saying “we should ban religions from coercive headgear” or “we shouldn’t ban clothing”? Cause those are contradictory positions and I’m not certain what you’re trying to say (which is probably entirely on me)

Sure, but my money’s on that the CIA didn’t like that JFK was unhappy with them after the mess they both made in Cuba as the prime motivator.