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Our fascination with history shows no sign of fading. We consistently flip through volumes of dusty books to learn more about our past and understand our influence on the world. When we read about intriguing characters or find exciting bits of knowledge we missed in class, we broaden our mental horizons and begin to realize the good and the bad of humanity.
We often applaud and raise toasts to historical heroes who showed kindness and courage to make society a bit better. But unfortunately, there’s no escaping that not every part of our past is worth celebrating. So user rockingkp reached out to fellow members of Ask Reddit to learn more about the dark and disturbing historical events few people know about.
Many users rolled up their sleeves to share the inescapable facts of some of the lowest points in our history. Discovering them might make us feel uncomfortable, but even the worst moments can carry significant lessons to teach us to never repeat them. Scroll down to read the responses and be sure to share your thoughts about them in the comments.
Psst! Just to warn you, though, some of these replies are not for the faint of heart. If you think this might be a bit too much and feel in great need of something positive, check out our recent compilation full of wholesome stories right here.
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#1
Human “experimentation” by Japanese Unit 731 during WWII, committed primarily against innocent Chinese civilians. Nothing I’ve ever heard of in my life, including in fiction, is darker than the horrors committed for years by Unit 731, a military biological and chemical weapons research division of the Japanese Imperial military.
There’s not enough room in a Reddit post to list half of it, but here’s a taste: Dissections of living babies, pregnant women, etc. without anesthesia (also known as a vivisection) usually after they had been deliberately exposed and left to suffer from horrible diseases, chemical and biological weapons, and so on. Freezing limbs off of victims. Horror-movie sadistic surgeries involving cutting off limbs and attaching them to the wrong sides of a victim, or removing organs and connecting the tubes back together without the organs to see what would happen, such as running the esophagus straight to the intestines with no stomach in between.
Not to mention the fact that the victims were routinely tortured for the sake of torture, without even the flimsy excuse of “science” being conducted.
And we’re talking about thousands upon thousands of victims, usually hapless Chinese civilians, political prisoners, POWs, and the homeless, over the course of years in huge facilities with thousands of staff committing these atrocities.
The icing on the cake? General MacArthur and the rest of the US government found out about it when they captured Japan — and they granted Unit 731 immunity for their war crimes so long as they share their findings with America and ONLY America. Many of the former Unit 731 members even went on to have very successful and profitable futures in Japan after the war.
Edit: Based on a couple of the comments I’ve gotten where people are making judgement calls about the modern day Japanese for this - I’d just like to make clear that I hold no prejudice against the Japanese, and I’m certainly not encouraging others to — every country and people has truly horrific pasts, and almost all of them sweep it under the rug as best they can. Even in our generation. We can argue that torture conducted by US soldiers in Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib, for example, aren’t half as bad, or were more justified, but ultimately torture is torture and sadism is sadism. A culture or government that begins to permit such things and justify them is well on its way down the spiral with enough motivation. Let’s not fool ourselves into comforting racism or nationalism that our countries or people are incapable of atrocities of our own, even today.
Just a ray of f'ing sunshine 3 years ago
I dont know if you're American or not, but I did some research for a college paper about some of the experiments conducted in the US by the government or hospitals on US citizens. Google it sometime. Interesting reading. Look at psychological and medical... I didn't know about most of them.
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Steven Lu 3 years ago
No, actually the Japanese NEVER admitted their fault for WWII like what the German did.
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Vicky Zar 3 years ago
I'm not sure a 100% but as far as I know, no one admitted their war crimes except Germany.
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GoddessOdd 3 years ago
My Uncle Bill was one of the longest surviving POWs in WW2. He was tortured routinely, in ways he could barely speak of. The Japanese took the red cross off the top of the building where they were housed, and placed it on an ammo dump nearby, resulting in the shelling of the POW camp by the RAF. My uncle survived the shelling, but only because he was operated on by a British surgeon who was imprisoned with him... with no anesthesia or sanitation. He returned a different man, and it haunted him the rest of his days. I know there were atrocities during the war, but I had never heard of Unit 731. I hope the number doesn't mean there were 730 other camps like this.
Queen fhk 3 years ago
And yet the USA wouldn't agree to admit.but in btw "Humans are the worst Creation.
Nubis Knight 3 years ago
Not as bad but: In the US Project MKUltra run by the CIA tested hallucinogens on prisoners and other unwitting subjects searching for mind control. Or US infected prisoners with diseases and injected cancer cells to study the outbreak and how to cure. Of course the prisoners were left in the dark that they were test subject. And of course Black prisoners were more likely to become test subjects.
Alicia GriffonLady 3 years ago
Not just that. USA government did experiments on low-income neighborhoods by spraying from the streets. I seem to remember some syphilis injections as well? And to be honest, i have long suspected places like Area 51 are actually where a lot of "lethal injection" people wind up. Possibly missing persons as well.
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Hdef 3 years ago
The more I learn about unit 731, the more I understand my grandpa's ptsd from his time in WW2 Pacific. He was definitely racist in all the ways, but hated Japanese the most. He liberated their victims.
Remi A. Paulin 3 years ago
As a Canadian, what Canada did to Native children is nothing to be proud of also...
SoozeeQ 3 years ago
At first, I thought the building was a Canadian orphanage, until I scrolled further down and read the post (which should have come with a "trigger warning", IMO.
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#2
One that really stands out to me is of the Filipino Zoo Girl that was on display in the Coney Island Zoo in 1914. She was bound by ropes and people tossed peanuts at her. It's just heartbreaking to see something like that happen, especially to a child so young.
Many people have no idea that [human zoos] existed, but they are definitely a dark part of history. What's crazy is that there have still been some that have popped up in the 21st century, although not as cruel as they used to be.
Suzy the observer 3 years ago
I want to jump in this picture, cut the ropes, take her in my arms, flee and snuggle her until my arms fall off.
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Louise B 3 years ago
That's sickening. How could people do that to a tiny child? The look of trauma on her face is heartbreaking. What sort of person responds to that by throwing peanuts at her?
Bobbi Johnson 3 years ago
Because people were racist. They thought that they were higher than others, just because they did not look or think like them.
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Łukasz Markuszewski 3 years ago
This child might have been still alive just a few years ago. Do you see it? The person who have been a prisoner in human zoo might have walking streets few years ago, in the age of equality, antiracism and diversity, and you could met her and talk to her and didn't know that kind of horrible things happened to this person.
Rose the Cook 3 years ago
Such "attractions' were not unusual at the time including so called "freak shows" featuring disabled people.
V Michael Lazar 3 years ago
Freaks, however, were, for the most part, performing voluntarily and made good money doing it. Some, like Julia Pastrana, were horribly exploited, but most received excellent care and some became wealthy.
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Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
Holy c**p. I saw this from the thumbnail, and knowing about "freak shows," I wasn't so shocked. But a little girl bound by ropes with people tossing peanuts at her? It shows what people will do if only the social cues tell them it's acceptable, and it's thus terrifying, not merely tragic history.
Alicia GriffonLady 3 years ago
Humans are terrifying like that. And if they think what they are doing is right and you try to do what is truly right, they could kill you, just for being against them. Humans give me the heebeegeebees. (Hey, if some guy can become woman of the year, my seceeding from the human race is fine too.)
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Kitty Jordan 3 years ago
I realize she's likely dead by now, but I just want to go back in time and hug that poor little girl and give her chocolate and puppies and apologize that this was the world she was born in.
Patricia Orlowski 3 years ago
From the look on her face, she was likely wishing to be dead at that moment 😡
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The Radium Girls. In the 1920s, they worked at a watch company painting the hours on the watches using radium, a radioactive element that glows in the dark. They did this with no PPE and weren't told radium is dangerous. Meanwhile, the chemists had full PPE and worked in a sealed environment.
Worse, they were instructed to lick the tip of the brush to make a very fine point. Some of them would paint their nails or their teeth with it for fun when they went out at night.
They would develop cancer whenever the paint touched, and many of them had such decay in their jaws that their mandibles had to be held on with bandages.
Monday 3 years ago
It was considered to be a glamourous job too so many young women flocked to these positions. They had to fight tooth and nail to get compensation years later when the dangers of radium finally became public knowledge. There was also a guy who drank huge amounts of radithor (radium infused water) every day until his jaw fell off. Look up Eben Byers if you want to see what a jawless man looks like.
Blurryface 3 years ago
Eben Byers was born in 12 April 1880. His wealthy background permitted him a good education, even going as far as graduating from Yale University. He was an athletic young man who won many gold championships in the early 1900s. Once his father deemed him old enough, he made him the president of Girard Iron Company. In 1927, during one of his matches, he tripped and injured his arm. The wound wasn’t very bad, but it provoked a lot of pain, something Byers was not used to. Therefore his medic prescribed Radithor for faster healing besides all its other hypothetical benefits. Byers followed his medic’s prescription to only take a small spoon a day. Over a short period of time, Byers was also hit by the placebo effect as he was feeling great, so great that he started taking a whole bottle a day, then weeks later two, and after a year even three bottles of a day. In 1931 he got a surprise as his jaw literally fell down.
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Elizabeth Elliot 3 years ago
Worst, when they tried to sue, the company tried to smear them as having symptoms from STDS and waited out compensation until most were dead.
Miss Ann Thrope 3 years ago
My mother had a watch with a face that glowed in the dark. My sister took to wearing it. One day in science class, the teacher was showing a Geiger counter. He walked around the room and the thing went nuts when he got to my sister.
LRevello 3 years ago
Arthur Roeder (a plant manager at the US Radium Corporation) had a study done about the effects of the radium. When the study came back stating it was indeed hazardous, Roeder doctored the report (only submitted one page, which made it seem like radium wasn't a big deal) to the court. to try to cover up the company's culpability. Mrs. Kathryn Drinker (Harvard faculty member, wife and partner to Cecil Drinker, who conducted the study) found out about the coverup & exposed the company for lying & trying to cover it up. The company wound up paying restitution to some of the girls but at that point MANY of them had already died (with massive medical debts to their families.) TLDR: at some point the US Radium Corp. KNEW it was poisoning and killing young girls (and many others) & instead of trying to do the right thing they lied, denied all responsibility & tried to cover it up.
Blackstone 3 years ago (edited)
What's exciting (/s) is that c**p like this is still possible. If a company pays the right people enough to get sketchy laws/ exceptions put into place, they can get away with a lot of stuff. Creative data reporting and skewed research can be really profitable, just as long as the lawsuits don't cost more than the profits, it doesn't really matter how many lives or how much the environment is destroyed. It's sickening.
PC 3 years ago
No. you're surprised by this? We didn't have rights in the u.s. for a long time. entres nous? Women first got the vote on August 20, 1920.
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guesswho2who2 3 years ago
do a google image search for Radium Girls Cancer... there are some horrific pictures there...
Wise beauty 3 years ago
Yeah, this stuff definitely isn’t for the faint of heart.
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Decades later, the town of Orange, NJ, where the plant had been, started massively leaking radon. Instead of informing the residents, the citizenry woke up one morning to discover the entire town was missing a foot of topsoil. Imagine waking up and finding your lawn and the earth underneath was gone while anything paved was still there.
#4
The massacre of kalavrita. It is a village is Greece. The Germans entered it and rounded up all the male villagers in a field. They then shot them all with machine guns. After that they got the children and women and put them in the church. When everyone was inside, they locked the doors and set fire to the church. Around 20 minutes into the burning, a German soldier couldn’t take it anymore and opened the doors. Around half of the people escaped the fire but the rest perished. The German soldier was shot for this, and if you go to kalavrita today his name is on the memorial. No one was punished for this apart from the leader of the division, who I was told by my grandmother that he [perished] in a gulag. But everyone else got away with it. It is sad that no one knows about this, as things like this happened all over Greece and Russia and Poland. I only know about this because my Great grandmother was one who escaped in the church. This massacre was in retaliation for the villagers supporting the local resistance force, which had recently [unalived] about 10 nazis.
Sinkvenice 3 years ago
"Unalived"? I'm pretty sure nobody would be triggered or have an anxiety attack by reading that Nazis were killed.
Ray Martin 3 years ago
The censorship on Bored Panda is beyond absurd and well into obscene.
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This is a test 3 years ago
Horrendous. The nazis did something similar in France as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane_massacre
Mr Zipperface 3 years ago
Oradour sur Glane has been preserved as a memorial, everything left as it was found after the massacre.
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Jayne Kyra 3 years ago
Screw you, BP! You take content that is morbid, sexual, brutal, but censor out words like KILLED!? If you worry so much, go back to sharing only stolen Disney princess art!
Greta Kolding 3 years ago
I don't think BP censored the word killed. "Unalived" was the poster's choice of word.
Load More Replies... Alicia GriffonLady 3 years ago
We know what it means, so it'll probably be in Websters dictionary eventually. /shrug
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Premislaus de Colo 3 years ago
Same would happen in Poland. People would be rushed to a barn that would later be set on fire.
Rich Carver 3 years ago
Same treatment was used against Poles on Wołyn (eastern Poland) by Ukranian nationalists.
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Phandom Apostolis 3 years ago
They made a movie about this: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4593154/
PenguinQueen 2 years ago
I was reading this thinking I'm sure I have saw a movie of this before
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julien 3 years ago
On 10 June 1944, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 642 civilians, including non-combatant women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company. The women and children were locked in the church, and the village was looted. The men were led to six barns and sheds, where machine guns were already in place. According to a survivor's account, the SS men then began shooting, aiming for their legs. When victims were unable to move, the SS men covered them with fuel and set the barns on fire. Only six men managed to escape. One of them was later seen walking down a road and was shot dead.
Richard A Petro 3 years ago
The SS unit involved was "Das Reich" and they committed these crimes as they were trundling their way to the Normandy invasion. The deliberate torture, killing and raping of invaded territories was "standard operations" for the entire German Army during the war but in the aftermath of WW2 (Cold war, Communism and a divided Germany) many of the German commanders and participants of war crimes were given a "free pass" to rejoin the Bundeswehr as a bulwark against Stalin's aggressions. Remember, today's "enemy" becomes tomorrow's "ally" depending on which way the political and military winds are blowing.
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Naiya 3 years ago (edited)
How does an article about people being gunned down and burned alive need to use the word "unalived"? This is inane. Stop kowtowing to the triggered. The word "trigger" is something that activates a gun. Therefore the word "trigger" should trigger people. I jest, but y'all see my point. My family are from Greece, and I'm thankful to have this knowledge. I had no idea this even occurred. Sad and horrific. Just say it like it is and say "dead," or "killed," or "deceased." Seriously? WTF, SMN. This is inane censorship, and it's gone way too far. Padding the wording is an insulting injustice to the people who suffered this fate. Do you not see the irony here. If you do not, Bored Panda, you need lessons in humanity and paradoxic writing.
Naiya 3 years ago
Okay, whey does an article describing a massacre where men were machine-gunned and women and children were burned to death in a church use the word "unalived"? Seriously. This is beyond inane. Stop kowtowing to the triggered few and the triggered masses who now get attention just for being triggered. This is parenting 101, people. Stop protecting adult children from "words." The word "trigger" triggers me. Do something about that. "Trigger" is related to guns, therefore I am now traumatized by the word trigger. I jest, of course, but you see my point. An article about people burned alive and gunned down in a tiny village in Greece (my family's HOME COUNTRY) that can't say the word "killed." Or "dead." FFS, SMN. :/
#5
Mother Theresa being an absolute evil b***h. Letting so many [perish] on her watch, while collecting millions from dictators for the Vatican.
alwaysMispelled 3 years ago
I don't understand why western media treated her like a saint, because they did. I don't remember any 20/20 or frontline stories about her not giving people pain medication because it was good for their souls to suffer, or whatever BS she spouted
Ozacoter 3 years ago
You are right. I grew up in a catholic school and we were always told how amazing she was. Even nowadays a lot of people blindly defend her. She was disgusting
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Patti Vance 3 years ago
she was the anti-thesis of what charity should be. she believed the only way to get closer to g-d was through suffering and would deny people in her care with the basic needs of medicine and/or pain. she also made sure that she used her vatican passport to get to the united states in order to get medical treatment for when she was ill. she was not a person to be admired though her legacy has been whitewashed
El Dee 3 years ago
I never knew about this until after she died. The thing I can relate to most is that she refused to give painkillers to the patients as she 'didn't believe in them' but when it came to her own health she ensured she had the very best of care and all the drugs she needed. Not a good person after all..
Kantami Blossom 3 years ago
Old sow would hold treatment from sick people until they converted to her faith, religions should never be allowed to run charities and definitely should not have tax exemptions.
Agent 8433599 3 years ago
I honestly had no clue. I must have read a one-sided book about her. I wish I had dug deeper about her! (Not sarcastic)
BasedWang12 3 years ago
Let's not forget that she had her people "convert" patients in their care to Catholicism, therefor damning them to hell in their mother religion without the consent of them or their families
P R 3 years ago (edited)
Spiritually speaking, if The Catholic Church does not have a God-given authority (or more specifically MT) to change peoples religions on them then the fact that they performed a rite or other ordinance means absolutely nothing. It was just words. If it was not the patients will then it was meaningless & did not bind them. However, anyone can pray for another & still be heard by God. Without the patient’s consent it is just that. A prayer.
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Jellyboys
During the 1800s British noblemen in India would use so called jellyboys (local boys smeared in jam) to walk beside them attracting all the bugs, flies and mosquitoes, creating a neat golfing experience for the nobility and a not so neat experience for the boys.
title track 3 years ago
King Pepi II had his slaves covered in honey so as to attract the flies to them and not him around 2280BC
pusheen buttercup 3 years ago
Jeez, they could have just smeared an object with stuff instead of the people
Bobert Robertson 3 years ago
This is a great idea poorly executed. Would smearing jam all over an inanimate object not have the same affect?
Vuun 3 years ago
I'm starting to get really annoyed with Bored Panda for various reasons, constant spread of misinformation being one.
Load More Replies... Sven Grammersdorf 3 years ago
There's actually no real evidence that so-called "jam boys" ever existed
Kantami Blossom 3 years ago
An Urban Myth, there has never been a single shred of evidence that "Jamboys" ever existed especially when it would be so much easier to have a plate covered in jam you could sit on the grass whenever you had to take a shot.
Begum Sumiya 3 years ago
I am from Bangladesh, which was part of the colonial India, and I have read/heard stories about many kinds of atrocities British people had committed over the "natives". But I have never seen even a mention of those Jellyboys. The reason is probably because this " cool" idea will not actually work. Let me explain you why. The two most annoying insects over the Indian sub-continent are the mosquitos and the flies. The mosquitos don't care about jelly, or any sweet thing at all. They want blood. And the flies, well, if you ever attract flies with sweet things, they won't stop there. They will fly around and cause trouble for everyone. You need to keep your surroundings clear, or if you use any trap, you need to put them far away.
#7
Magdalene asylums, also known as Magdalene laundries. Places of "reform" for women that didn't fit the idea of a good upstanding citizen. The most well known ones were in Ireland. The women and girls were abused and mistreated by asylum staff, most of whom were nuns.
Mass graves, selling these women's children to people in other countries, blocking any parental rights... There's apparently at least one movie coming out, a lot of stories about it, and so many people sharing stories from their mothers and grandmothers. I guess it's more well known than I first thought.
Jiminy 3 years ago (edited)
They had similar ones for adolescents in the GDR until 1990, though not led by nuns. They were for boys and girls alike, who were labeled as "hard to educate" (read: didn't fit into the "socialist" society) or whose parents spoke out against the regime.
Richard Wareham 3 years ago
There has already been an excellent film - The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 film written and directed by Peter Mullan. If you want to see the horrors perpetrated by Irish nuns on the young women unfortunate enough to have been in their 'care', watch it. It will change your perspective.
Patti Vance 3 years ago
"reform" really meant any time an adult, usually a parent, felt that their daughter was not behaving "appropriately". that means if they were the victims of incest or rape or just started to show an interest in a boy. and, heaven help them if they showed signs possibly being gay!
Darach Dinneen 3 years ago
An excavation of one of the Magdalene sisters homes revealed a mass grave of over 700 babies. These women were often put in if they had sex outside wedlock and even if they were raped and became pregnant. There were also loads found in a sceptic tank in the same home. Horrific places and the sisters all got away with it without so much as an apology.
This is a test 3 years ago
There's already a movie about it but warning it's a tough watch (but a very good movie): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magdalene_Sisters
Rose the Cook 3 years ago
See the film 'Philomena" about the treatment of unmarried mothers in Ireland.
Sian Edwards 3 years ago
The last Magdalene asylum in Ireland closed in 1996. Less than 30 years ago. And while conditions may have improved, the stigma was still there.
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago
I think also Sinead O’Connor (can’t spell her name 😂) was there too when she was young which contributed to her feminist overtones
#8
Not many people outside of Canada know about the abusive residential schools many indigenous kids were forced to go to (up until the 90’s!!), but even less know that many were also experimented on in the quest to cure tuberculosis. Truly sick stuff.
Dre Mosley 3 years ago
Pretty much every country with an indigenous population is guilty of mistreating it, sadly.
K Miller 3 years ago
And they try to hide them too. I live in Canada, and I don't remember learning about Residential Schools when I was a kid at all. Pretty sure the first time I'd heard of them was when the first 215 children were found... we barely touched on anything Indigenous.
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LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
The girls would be raped by the priests, and boys were molested, too. If a girl got pregnant, when she had the baby it would "disappear". Infant remains have been found and some of the survivors recall seeing nuns carrying bundles of blankets and tossing them into an oven, or around the back of the schools. Children were ripped from their families who spoke in only their native tongues. Once they were in the schools they were stripped of their clothing, scrubbed aggressively, their long hair was chopped (long hair is sacred) and they were put in school supplied clothes. If they spoke in their native tongues they were smacked and/or beaten. They were not allowed to practice their cultural traditions, speak of their family or traditions. It was forced assimilation and cultural genocide. Today, many Indigenous don't know their original language, and some don't know much about their culture and traditions of their ancestors they would have learned growing up. The after trauma affects have
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
rippled into the new generations. The Indigenous families are still getting pushed around and ripped apart from government agencies, such as CPS and the police force, as they disproportionately are the majority of the demographics that are placed in government care and jailed. We have birth alerts here. Just for being Indigenous a mother in labour will end up getting CPS called by hospital staff, or social worker, to come take the baby away and claim the mother is "unfit", despite no evidence of anything wrong. Canadians are bombarded with stories like this often on the news. But to anyone outside Canada we're so innocent and tranquil.
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HannEli 3 years ago
It was called the "60'S Scoop" because "officials" (I call them b*s+ards) literally came in to indigenous people's homes and "scooped" children up to take them to residential school. If you got in the way of your precious, innocent baby going with a strange older man and told to "not worry about it", you'd be killed. There is a photo going around (I do not have the og. picture) of a devil "dancing" around a fire, with names of "disobedient" children's names in the fire, making "sure they knew" what would happen if they did not listen. I could GO ON for days but... it is great that this is coming to light recently and there are many photos, documentaries, stories, articles and YouTube videos on the horrors. The Native American 60's Scoop is one of the most dismissed and unknown massacres in history.
Yulia Yakovenko 3 years ago
60' scoop especially was wider then that, government got children of many different origins, including Eastern European, and placed for adoption. This is additional to a residential school disaster
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Lacey Heward 3 years ago
I recently heard 90% of children at these "schools" were also sexually abused. Unbelievable and heart breaking.
Matthew Coughlin 3 years ago
We had those here in America too. "How do you get rid of the godless heathens? Remove their children from them, teach them to become Christians destroy their culture and never return them to their families." What a wonderful world we live in...
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
Yup. As I posted elsewhere I did learn about this as an American child in school. I remember thinking as a child it would be horrifying to be taken for my family to be raised by somebody else and that wasn't even knowing the horrors these poor people were really going through.
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Bert van Aalsburg 3 years ago
The U.S. Dept of the Interior just released a report of our own indian schools. Remarkable in that I doubt such a report would have ever been released if our Secretary of the Interior wasn't herself Native American.
LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago (edited)
I'm in Canada, I was only in elementary school when the last school closed but I was being taught about it.... from the point of view of how "good it was for them," that it was "beneficial", in high school not a word was spoken. But I remember being taught and thinking that it sounded wrong. I didn't realize I grew up in a racist town till I left and learned things on my own. Looking back, I'm amazed I didn't turn out like so many people I grew up around considering I had no examples of anything different. BTW, all I need to do is go for a short boat ride to find one of the hospitals these experiments were performed at. I grew up here and never knew the black part of history we played.
Mia Hamsa 3 years ago
There has also been a lot of suppression on the information and news of indigenous women specifically vanishing out of thin air (human trafficking, murder, domestic abuse etc). The percentage of them being treated as "runaways" with no further investigation is absolutely shocking. To the day. Not the past.
#9
This is more modern history (current history to be precise) but ... The Chinese Communist Party actively engaging in Nazi germany style genocide of Uighur Muslims via imprisonment in concentration camps. Forcing them into slave labour and [taking out] them if they do not comply. There is an estimated 1 million Uighur muslims currently being held in these camps with an undisclosed number of them dead (due to the secrecy of the CCP) Most people don’t know about this and the ones that do just bury their heads in the sand.
Nubis Knight 3 years ago
I'm especially dissapointed with Disney for acting it down while filming Mulan nearby that concentration Camps.
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China has nuclear weapons. China also has a chip on its shoulder due to the "hundred years of humiliation" it suffered at the hands of the Western powers and Japan. China also isn't appreciative of "religion". In short, besides wringing hands, publicizing the atrocity and applying, well, a couple of sanctions, don't expect anything much to change here as commerce, trade and the stock market would have a devil of a time showing a profit during a nuclear exchange. As Einstein was reported to have commented, "I don't know how WW3 will be fought but I know WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones."
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 3 years ago
Bored Panda. Stop censoring words. It only serves to sanitize aspects of history that need to be talked about and remembered accurately.
Sapna Sarfare 3 years ago
The fact that no one is speaking about these camps is scary... not even the Muslim countries...
Busy Panda 3 years ago
People speak https:www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55794071.amp But speaking only is not enough. Alas, almost the whole world speak against and condemn Russia for invading Ukraine (thanks to relentless campaign from Ukraine's president, Volodimyr Zelinskyy). But even it is not enough to help Ukraine.
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Nadhrah Chowdhury 3 years ago
if a white christian man kills someone they will just say 'man' killed a person on the news. If a black christian man killed someone they will say 'black man' on the news. If a muslim man or jewish man or someone from a different race or religion kills them they will saw " (Whatever race he is and Muslim/Jewish/buddhist?etc man killed somone.
Marykay Klim 3 years ago
Muslims, Jews and Christians are all enemies of the state. And there are certainly concentration camps in China. I try to boycott Chinese goods as much as possible (not so easy to do either.)
#10
The New London School Explosion. On the afternoon of March 18, 1937, the shop teacher at the school in New London, TX turned on an electric sander. Unbeknownst to him, there was a massive natural gas leak under the school. The sander sparked, which ignited the gas and caused a massive explosion that [unalived] almost 300 students and teachers. It was absolutely horrific. The force of the explosion was so great that a two ton block of concrete crushed a car parked 200 feet away. This event is actually why natural gas has a smell now. They started adding it after the explosion so that something like this couldn’t ever happen again.
My grandfather was actually one of the survivors of the explosion. He never talked about it, even to his own family, so I didn’t really know too much about it (other than the fact that he’d survived) until after his [passing]. Toward the end of his life, he’d suffered a series of strokes that left him pretty physically incapacitated, so my dad had given him a voice-activated tape recorder and suggested maybe he could record his memoirs for his grandkids to listen to someday. As it turns out, he did. We have hours and hours of cassette tapes of him telling the story of his (actually very interesting) life, including a big section on the New London school explosion. For the sake of everyone’s privacy, I’ll call my grandfather Papa and use an initial for anyone else.
Papa was in eighth grade when it happened, in his English class at about 3:00 PM on a Thursday afternoon. At the beginning of class, Papa and his buddy T had been messing around and being loud in the back of the classroom (as eighth grade boys often do). His teacher, Miss M, had enough of their disruptions and made Papa switch seats with another student. He moved into the girl’s desk in the front row, and she moved back into his desk in the back of the room. When the school exploded, they were taking a test on the book Ivanhoe. Papa was knocked out for a short time, and when he woke up, he couldn’t see anything because the dust was so thick. He looked down and saw that his pencil had blown clear through his hand. When the dust cleared, he saw that the whole back of the room was gone. I won’t go into details, but there were bodies (and parts of bodies) everywhere. The students in the front half of the room survived. The students in the back half did not. That included Papa’s friend T and the little girl who’d been forced to take Papa’s desk because of his misbehavior at the beginning of class. If he hadn’t been acting up, he would have been [unalived] and she would have lived. He carried the guilt of her [passing] until the day he [passed away].
Papa’s classroom was on the second floor. There wasn’t any way to get to the room other than the open cavity of the explosion. After the few seconds of initial shock wore off, he and another classmate jumped into action. They were the only two kids in the class who hadn’t been badly injured. They made a tourniquet out of a sock and a shoelace for a girl with a severe injury to her arm and dug out their teacher, who was alive, but badly injured. By then, men were running up underneath the hole, so Papa and the other boy started lowering the injured to them. Then those who could walk, including Papa, climbed down. He ran off to look for his older brother, B, to see if he was OK.
As it turned out, B had been supposed to be in Geometry class. However, he and his buddy had snuck out to go fishing. The explosion happened as they were opening the door to head out to the parking lot. The force of the blast sent them tumbling head over foot across the lot. They were both banged up and dazed, but they survived. The rest of their Geometry class was [unalived]. I don’t know that there’s a moral in the fact that both my grandfather and his brother survived because they were misbehaving that day. I do know that it weighed very heavily on both of them for he rest of their lives.
There’s a lot more to his story about the day and the aftermath (most of it absolutely horrific), but I won’t go into all of it here. A few small tidbits though:
- Papa and the boy who helped him rescue the other students from their classroom were both awarded medals and certificates of valor for their actions that day.
- Nearly every family in town lost a child - some all of their children. I’m sure you can imagine the extreme toll this took on everyone’s mental health. Papa described New London in the months following the explosion as a “town with no children.” To help with the healing process, the oil companies actively recruited families with kids to transfer in, so that there was some sense of normalcy when school started again in the fall.
- Papa had played French horn in the school band. However, when school started up again, he was asked to switch to trumpet, as the entire trumpet section had been [unalived].
A few years later, my grandfather went on to fight in World War II, and he saw some of the worst conflict in the Pacific (including Peleliu and the liberation of Manila). But he said that nothing he saw during the war was ever as bad as what he saw the day of the explosion. I’m always amazed that more people don’t know about it. It was major international news at the time.
Monday 3 years ago
There's a documentary on this one available on Youtube from the channel BadHQ. It's called Disasters Of The Century | New London School Explosion if anyone is interested.
Roberto Alonso Lago 3 years ago (edited)
Followed your lead and learnt it is actually Bad Day HQ (there is a bad day HQ channel, but that's not it). Here's a link to the video. Thanks! https://youtu.be/WOn6p-B9v2o
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Alma Muminovic 3 years ago
Thank you! Im glad to see Im not the only one who found it extremely irritating to sensor killed/died with another more awkward word that means the same thing! If people cant handle the word ‘killed’ then maybe don't read any of this article.
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J F 3 years ago
stop with th unalived nonsence its dead,.. unalived is not a word for the love of god please stope with this woke nonsense.
Zero 3 years ago
Multiple sites sensor variations of the word "dead". This is a way of getting around those sensors... for now.
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Rodney Bowie 3 years ago
Is one of the entries in "Dark Little Known History Events" going to be that Bored Panda censored the word "killed" and went with "unalived." We're looking through a list of horrible, horrible events but we can't handle the word "killed?"
Mr Zipperface 3 years ago
Yet they didn't have a problem with "death" or "bodies/parts of bodies".
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Shelli Aderman 3 years ago
Saying, “[unalived],” as opposed to, “Killed,” actually makes you think about it MORE, because your brain takes an extra moment to translate the word, and THUS, LINGERS ON IT! 🙄🤦🏽♀️
Polar_bear_lover 3 years ago
I've actually heard this story before, but not with this much detail. It is incredibly sad that so many people died.
Kimberly Herbert 3 years ago
The rotten egg smell added to natural gas is because of this tragedy. Also, Texas has strict qualifications for who can be an engineer to avoid amateurs connecting natural gas lines to buildings like the setup that caused this tragedy.
Lori Sandoval 3 years ago
I believe it is called mercaptan. I used to work in facilities management at the College of Chemistry at UC Berkeley. A few months after Tan Hall, a new chemical engineering lab building opened, it was discovered that the gas used for busses burners didn't have that smell (i.e., odorless). Turns out the piping used to transport the gas was of such a porous nature it ended up absorbing the mercaptan. As it was a safety issue (not being able to tell if the gas was on or if there was a leak) they shut down gas to that building until they found a solution.
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Marianne 3 years ago
"Unalived"?? This sounds so much worse than killed...like it's a joke or something...
Tobias the Tiger 3 years ago
Agreed, the usage of words like "unalived" in these posts just makes me think that they're making light of some serious issues.
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The Holodomor. Just Google it. Stalin starved around 10 million Ukrainians to further his political agenda. Was absolutely disgusting.
Richard A Petro 3 years ago
When it comes to massive killings AND covering it up, Stalin was the, shudder, master. And it seems Czar Putin wants to continue along these same lines. Perhaps the world WILL pay a little more attention this time though when I see people grumbling about "gas prices" while Ukrainian civilians are being murdered by the bucket loads, I tend to have my doubts.
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
I wouldn't be so sure. There are people I'm seeing commenting how they think Ukraine should just surrender, and how Ukraine isn't all that innocent. Meanwhile they've only read some news article 10 years ago, or 5 years ago to refer to, and have not even heard of the Holodomor.
Load More Replies... Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
Stalin killed more people than Hitler. The NY Times won a Pulitzer prize for denying this was happening. They have neither surrendered it nor have they had it rescinded. This is not mere history. There's a legitimate chance Putin gravely underestimated the resistance he'd meet because he grew up believing the Soviet (and NY Times) propaganda, and never questioned it.
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
I can't believe people refuse to believe it was a genocide. One lady I knew even had the gall to say "not enough people died to make it a genocide." WTAF?
Brenda 3 years ago
Stalin was the definition of cruel, insane, and only thought of using his position to make him look strong. In actuality, he was insecure, and just plain old bat s**t crazy. He had NO self control and didn't care who he hurt/abused/jailed or flat out ki!!ed to further his warped agenda. I've read that few of his "people " dared to cross or disobey him for fear of retaliation against them & their families.
Shelli Aderman 3 years ago
People are horrible to other people, and it just keeps repeating. How can we share love and kindness instead?
Susan Price 3 years ago
There is a man a few streets over with a huge sign saying Remember Holodomor - so sad :(
#12
The Children's Blizzard. It occurred in January 1888 on an unseasonably warm day. The weather was nice and many school-kids were tricked into not wearing coats or jackets to school, some only in short sleeves. While the kids were in class, the weather outside changed dramatically from warm and sunny at noon to dark and heavy like a thunderstorm, with heavy winds and visibility at 3 steps by 3 pm. Children left school to go home and do their chores (this was in Minnesota) and were expected to milk the cows and do whatever else was involved in the family farm. But they got lost in the darkness and snow and the wind and many froze in their town, just yards from houses or other sources of refuge. 235 people, mostly children [perished].
There is a novel about the blizzard out now, and there is a nonfiction book about the event as well. I think they have the same title, different authors:
The Children's Blizzard (Nonfiction by David Laskin)
The Children's Blizzard (Fiction by Melanie Benjamin)
MissPrideGirl 3 years ago
Those poor children. I wonder what happened to the parents after the blizzard.
Tina Fanetti 3 years ago
Some of them died looking for the kids in the blizzard.
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Ronald Morrison 3 years ago
That happened to me: School let out early because of an impending blizzard in Kansas. I almost made it home before falling into a snow filled ditch. By the time I dug myself out, my face and fingers were frostbitten. My parents were not aware school had been dismissed. In those days in the 40's, they didn't even have a phone at the grade school..I was in the first or second grade.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
Wow I remember getting out of school as a kid during a hurricane and walking home with water up to my waist.
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Upstaged75 3 years ago
That was a different blizzard based on the "long winter" which was also a real event.
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Bee she/her 3 years ago
There’s also “I survived the childrens blizzard”. I don’t remember who wrote it
Joe Reaves 3 years ago
Not all the deaths were people heading home. Some of the schoolteachers decided instead to keep the children in the one room schoolhouse until the storm blew over, but they ran out of fuel for the stove and froze to death. Other than letting them out early, which most people couldn't do because the warning signs weren't understood, there was no good option. Try to walk home and risk getting lost in the snow and freezing to death or stay in the schoolhouse and risk running out of fuel and freezing to death.
Marnie 3 years ago
It's weird that they would only have one day's worth of fuel :-(
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Kim Kermes 3 years ago
Then there was the Armistice Day blizzard - find a copy of All Hell Broke Loose.
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#13
Child marriage in America isn't talked about as much as it should be.
What's worse is that it's *still* a thing.
Nubis Knight 3 years ago
And may become a even bigger thing as in some conservative states the conservative politics press Charge for Lifting the minimal age for getting married so they could marry their underaged child-brides.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
You've got this precisely backwards. Utah, Kansas and North Carolina recently raised the marriage age to 18. California still has no laws against child marriage, and recent attempts to ban child marriage have been stymied due to concerns that such bans demonstrate bias against Muslims. Other states with no minimum age include Washington, New Mexico, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Maine, Massachusetts, Idaho, Mississippi and Oklahoma. Only the last three are generally considered conservative.
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K Wit 3 years ago
About to get much worse as womens rights are taken. Especially in states like Louisiana. They will keep as many children pregnant as they can while also forcing the next generation of women out of the workforce that pay higher wages. I'm sure this is their plan to make sure women cannot make enough money be charged w felonies so they cannot vote.
Hagen Radcliffe 3 years ago
K Wit … yup. Hit that nail right on its religious head.
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aaaggg hhh 3 years ago
Now we see why the republicans are so against abortion. It cuts down on their "domestic supply of infants" to choose from.
pamela nichols 3 years ago
Only girls suffer this outrage the world over being married to old buzzards.
Amanda Trent 3 years ago
I was one of those child brides. I got married at 15yo in south Carolina wayyy back in '97. To a man that was 8yrs older than me. I was actually a very mature and intelligent teen, except when it came to love, I was blinded by his smooth talk lol. He was my first everything. There were certain circumstances as to why I had to get married, and no, I wasn't pregnant. But the legal age was 14yo then. And there are other southern states where the legal age is 9yo or worse than that, no minimum age AT ALL! our marriage lasted 21yrs btw. It was no picnic, but we did love each other. And had our 1st child in '99, 2 weeks before my 18th bday. We had 2 more, all are 2yrs apart. And I would do it all again, to ensure my kids were born.
Miss Ann Thrope 3 years ago
In some states it's legal for a 14 year old to get married with a parent's consent.
Bedlamite 3 years ago
The problem is that children do not have the capacity to know what they are agreeing to. Most child brides are sold by their parents. They're not given a choice. Just because it's traditional doesn't mean it's right. Same goes for having sex with under age children. They don't have enough knowledge to make an informed decision on consequences of the act, ie, stds, or pregnancy. And who gets to determine whether the child is "willing"?
#14
The sad case of Ota Benga. He was a “pygmy” boy from the Congo who was essentially captured and brought to the USA to be displayed in freak shows. He had undergone tribal customs such as having his teeth filed into points before his capture.
He eventually got out of the carnivals and dreamed of returning to Africa, then WWI happened, making the trip impossible for the foreseeable future. He [ended himself] by gunshot.
Little Wonder 3 years ago
Partly because people find them triggering, and partly because advertisers don't like them. Honestly, in the case of BP, more likely the latter.
Load More Replies... AngryRobotsInc 3 years ago
Ota Benga died and was buried in the city I live in, in an unmarked grave near Gregory Hayes (who provided for Ota Benga to come here to study). Unfortunately, his remains have since gone missing (possibly during a transfer to another cemetery), so there is currently no chance of him being returned to the Mbuti, even post death. He has a memorial marker up in the city now (didn't happen until 2017, and many people were unaware of his existence period, or that his final years were spent here).
Lavender Moon 3 years ago
“Ended himself?” Since when is the word “killed” a bad word? Suicide should also not be seen as a bad word….especially this day and age.
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago
So sad, and weirdly as a small kid I wanted my teeth like that, my Filipino (non related) family showed me family photos with old people with the teeth, then I found out how much it hurts to have done and in general
Matt Michalak 3 years ago
@Mona Lisa: the fact that you aren't bothered by censorship is almost as scary as the censorship itself. This kind of thinking is a HUGE problem.
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Kristie French 3 years ago
I hadn’t heard of this one before. So, I looked up. Such a terrible thing to do to another human. I am seeing conflicting info about his age when he was abducted though. Many articles are calling him a child of 12, and others calling him a teen, but from historic sources it looks like he was born in 1883, and was taken to the US 1904, when he had already been married, and had 2 children. He killed himself in 1916. Such a sad short life.
Rainy Day Wolf 3 years ago
Ota Benga wasn't a boy when he was captured and slaved, his wife and children were murdered by the King Leopold II of Belgium's Force Publique... he was 21 when he was purchased by Samuel Phillips Verner
#15
In the US it was common to do invasive surgery on infants without anesthesia until the mid 1980s. It was thought that newborns couldn’t feel pain.
Monday 3 years ago
That logic has never made any sense. Surely people must have noticed if you pinch a baby they cry?
Karma Black 3 years ago
It was thought to be a reflexive action rather than a pain response. Which is infuriating.
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Giles McArdell 3 years ago
Early anaesthesia was not subtle enough and would kill a baby (it's still really dangerous today). I believe this is more what doctors told themselves so they were able to go ahead with life saving operations rather than let the babies die. Try and put yourself in their position, if they don't operate the baby dies, if they try anaesthesia the baby dies, it must be really hard to force yourself to still go ahead and operate in order to save the babies life.
Brandon Marlowe 3 years ago
Yet they performed needless operations as well such as circumcision.
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Catie Brandyberry 3 years ago
When I was 10-11 (in the late 90s), my mom was a caretaker for the mentally disabled. One woman was just completely gone, needed help walking, eating, etc. She fell once and required stitches on her face, and the doctor didn't numb the area at all. The idea was "no brain, no pain." Even at that young age, I was horrified that anyone could think something so awful. I didn't understand how someone could be so cruel, especially a doctor.
ellie angel urban 3 years ago
Horrible. Typically, by the 80s they would numb the face, but not put the child to sleep, so the child would be awake during surgery to the face. I know this, because I had it had this happen to me. I was numbed but passed out from sheer terror during surgery and stitches. I still remember a bit of it to this day.
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chuck.dont.surf 3 years ago
It's still common in the US for OB/GYN physicians to do extremely painful procedures on women without any anesthesia, numbing, or pain medication.
Phillip Shepard 3 years ago
This is not "common in the US for OB/GYN" I have done many deliveries. I got my MD in 1968, I was trained to do "saddle block" (low spinal) and pudendal block (regional) or local block for episiotomy or repair of lacerations that result from vaginal deliveries. All C-Sections where I trained were done with spinal anesthetic. General anesthetics and narcotics are avoided in OB because they get onto the baby and suppress their respiration. Non-medical persons are making all sorts of ridiculous false statement here.
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Iifa A. 3 years ago
As horrible as this is, anesthesia was extremely dangerous. Until recently we had no understanding how it works and affects. Hence why anesthesiologist are one.of the most stressful and highest paid positions. It basically is calculating risks and making decisions based on experience, current situation and hope for the best. Since we have now the technological advantages and imagery solutions we start understanding better how anesthesia affects on cellular level. The more we know the more past mistakes will seem horrific. Many countries didn't have regulations around medical and pharmaceutical requirements. Not until 1970s. And even now some (FDA) have questionable regulations around new compounds for human/animal consumption. We learn from mistakes and try to do better. The better our collective knowledge becomes, the safer we can become. Unfortunately medicine is an area where you fail a lot of times before solution, like polio vaccine, electric shock treatment etc
Sheila Wall 3 years ago
And look at the idiocies that arose by around vaccinations during the recent pandemic fostered in part by a certain political party. Vaccines are v. safe. Smallpox used to kill large numbers before the smallpox vaccine which at first used a live virus. Now a killed virus is used. The risk w/ the early vaccine was that people could develop the disease.
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3 years ago
There was also an experiment conducted once where infants were taken care of but not spoken to or allowed to see any words because people thought babies spoke a language that no one else spoke. It was instead discovered that infants die when not given any social interaction for weeks on end.
Lisa Valen 3 years ago
Why? Why would newborns NOT feel pain? They are just tiny humans after all. Logic dictates that if toddlers, children, teens and adults feel pain, so would newborns. Right?
Tom Drummer 3 years ago
Honest to god, WTF. It makes no sense. Maybe they believed they wouldn't REMEMBER the pain, but all accounts say it was determined babies didn't feel pain.
Load More Replies... Phillip Shepard 3 years ago
I got my medical degree from a top tier medical school in 1968 and had a three year residency at a respected hospital. I have never seen major surgery on infants done without anesthesia. I always used local or regional anesthesia for episiotomies or repair of tears that occur during deliveries. male circumcisions can be done painlessly at any age using topical EMLA cream and local anesthetic. I only sutured up one laceration on a boy without local. I knew him very well. When he and his brother got into an argument their dad had them put on boxing gloves to settle it. I told him the needle for sewing was smaller than the one used to inject. He just sat there and watched me suture. The Nurses were amazed. My next door neighbor's son had all his dental work done without anesthetic. His mother said his dentist was very adept at hypnosis. People making these statements about doing major surgery without anesthetic on children or infants are are making things up.
#16
The R*pe of Nanking, a six week episode of mass murder, r*pe, torture, theft, arson, and various other war crimes committed by Imperial Japanese soldiers against the Chinese civilians of Nanking (formerly China's capital) during the second Sino-Japanese War. This happened from December of 1937 when the Japanese captured Nanking after a crushing defeat for the Chinese (of varying severity depending on which side you ask) to January of 1938 when the Japanese finished establishing the new "collaborative" government in the city. The body count was massive (estimates range from 40-50,000 to over 300,000), but the massacre is not only remembered for how many people [perished]. It is mainly remembered for the staggering level of cruelty on display, to the point the soldiers even made *games* out of butchering people. One such "game" involved the soldiers throwing babies up into the air and trying to catch them on their bayonets when they came back down. Live burials, castration, brutal r*pe, and the roasting of people became routine then the soldiers started getting bored and thought up even more twisted s**t like hanging people from their tongues on iron hooks, burying them up to the waist and setting hungry dogs on them, or forcing families to engage in incestuous acts. Homes and businesses would be randomly picked out and raided nightly, the Chinese hiding inside all systematically [unalived], r*ped first if they were unlucky enough to be a woman that wasn't elderly or a toddler, and children were not exempt from the worst of it. Just about any horrible thing you can think to do to another person it probably actually happened in Nanking. Even the Nazis in the city at the time were horrified by the carnage, one calling it "the work of b*****l machinery".
Jacob Nunez 3 years ago
Nope not at all. And the people who remembered or had it happen to them (IE the “comfort girls”) were basically ignored. No apology. Nothing.
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Spikey boi 3 years ago
You know things are the worst when even the NAZIS think you were brutal.
Black Pearl 3 years ago
I almost had to stop reading after they said the soldiers literally threw babies and caught them in bayonets. That's so horrible. I feel sick.
in.love.with.taylor.swift 3 years ago
i actually felt physically sick i thought o was about to throw up when i heard that
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Kim Chi 3 years ago (edited)
JFC tried to post what the original link shows for the censored word and of course the BP censors got me too... it's b e s t i a l
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Alienking06 3 years ago
Okay, so users can say "murder" and "torture", and yet "killed" is changed to "unalived"?
Crow (he/they) 3 years ago
Also the stuff tha this talks about is so much more disturbing than the word killed. I'd say put a content warning on posts instead of blocking words- words are just a way to communicate ideas, which are the only things that can really trigger someone.
Load More Replies... Patti Vance 3 years ago
the cruelty of the japanese towards the chinese during this time is the basis for the animosity between the nations. it was also reported that the japanese soldiers attempted to take several of the girls of a missionary school run by europeans in order to establish them as 'comfort women' aka sex slaves. however, the prostitutes that took refuge within the the missionary school offered themselves up in order to avoid having the young girls subjected to that torture.
Lacia Lew 3 years ago
Isn't that the plot of a film? Can't remember the title, but I vaguely remember reading an article saying that it was almost entirely fictional and the girls offered were actual schoolgirls?
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Lothar Ohr 3 years ago
All Japanese soldiers were taught that a prisoner is not a human anymore. That was why they would treat prisoners like that, and would commit suicide than to be captured - at least in the beginning. Sources say it had the extra effect on Amerivan GIs thinking that Japeneses soldiers is undefeatable (Source: The World at War series)
Isaac7lego🇺🇸 3 years ago (edited)
unlived 🙄, just seems kind disrespectful to try to make this atrocity seem less horrible
#17
The Vipeholm Experiment.
Sweden are mostly known as a not very scary country. With good and mostly accessible dental care.
The Vipeholm experiments were a series of human experiments where patients of Vipeholm Hospital for the intellectually disabled in Lund, Sweden, were fed large amounts of sweets to provoke dental caries (1945–1955). The experiments were sponsored both by the sugar industry and the dentist community, in an effort to determine whether carbohydrates affected the formation of cavities.
The experiments provided extensive knowledge about dental health and resulted in enough empirical data to link the intake of sugar to dental caries.[1] However, today they are considered to have violated the principles of medical ethics.
Hey, you are institutionalized and suffering and powerless - let's make your teeth rot out of your skull. For uhhh science.
Sian Edwards 3 years ago
Sweden (like many countries in Europe, including the UK) also took part in forced sterilisation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilisation_in_Sweden
Christina Eneroth (Eneroth3) 3 years ago
This is in my hometown. Many old institution buildings like these old hospitals but also old military regiments and the like are typically renovated and used for high schools today. Big rooms, natural light, high ceilings, nice parks, good architecture jada jada. The ironic thing is that Vipeholm is the one high school in the area with classes for mentally disabled teens. It's probably just a coincidence but thinking of it rubs me the wrong way.
Klas Klättermus 3 years ago
This is truly one of the worst atrocities that our socialdemocratic party comitted (after WWII, in which they supported the nazis)
Brenda 3 years ago (edited)
The Japanese did experiments on people doing the war, unit 731, i think WW2. In many ways it was just as bad, if not worse, than what the Nazis did. The Japanese have never admitted to it as far as I know, but the evidence is clear. And many of those experiments (Japanese & German) have led to medical advances, but as what cost to humanity?
The Q 3 years ago
"Sweden are"? *Sweden is. Does this company have an editor or anyone with enough education to check grammar?
Karl Leaning 3 years ago
and in New Zealand's National Womens Hospital. The study, led by Dr Herbert Green, started in 1966 and involved following women with major cervical abnormalities without definitively treating them. This occurred without the women’s knowledge or consent. Twenty years on, many had developed cervical cancer, and some had died.
Suzy the observer 3 years ago
When moral and financial corruption is present, depravity appears.
#18
British Gulags in Kenya. 1.5 million indigenous Kenyans were placed in concentration camps. Many of them were tortured. Many of them were [unalived]. But all of them suffered, and with silence from the international press. It's ironic that the Brits criticised the Soviet Union for their inhumane gulags yet they had gulags of their own in British Protectorate Kenya. This happened in the 1950s, after the second world war.
juezyparte 3 years ago
If I read unalived one more time I’m gonna kill myself, I’m gonna shoot my brains out… what I mean is: if I have to read unalived till I’m old I think I’m rather gonna commit suicide, of the killing myself variety…
Alienking06 3 years ago
We must start a revolution and overthrow the BP censors. /hj
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Jackie Lulu 3 years ago
Here we are, reading stories about the horrific things that humans do to other humans, and we're going to be triggered by words like "die" and "kill"? Really? Actually, there's something in almost every Panda article that is going to trigger somebody out there. So, are you going to shut down the website? Don't think so . Please, let us make our own decisions.
Autumn Artemis 3 years ago
Hmmm we can’t have people saying “killed” so let’s just put an alternative word in there and surround it in brackets! That will definitely draw less attention to the word! /s
Autumn Artemis 3 years ago
Like- the whole purpose of the article is to talk about dark events. Dark, as in death, murder, suicide, torture, etc. It’s not supposed to be a hush-hush concept, it’s about horrible events that happened. That’s like trying to talk about the Holocaust but calling it the “passing away community block party”.
Load More Replies... Joe Reaves 3 years ago (edited)
I love how killed is on the advertisers' list of words they don't want on pages with their adverts but tortured is fine.
pusheen buttercup 3 years ago
I keep looking through history for any country or people that haven't done anything next-level horrible, but I keep being disappointed.
3 years ago
Seriously about to delete Bp After all these years what's worth the stupid censoring!!!
George Gameston 3 years ago
Britain invented concentration camps during the Boer war. A rather ignoble accomplishment...
Aussie Bloke 3 years ago
Come on Bored Panda staff. There's being woke, then there's being IDIOTIC. Enough with the 'unalived'
#19
The Ideal Maternity Home here in Canada. From the 1920s till the 1940s, they took in babies from unwed mothers and they were selling them especially to desperate jewish families in New Jersey (adoption was illegal in the US back then).
It was later discovered that the people who ran this business would starve the "unmarketable" babies by feeding them only molasses and water (the babies would last around 2 weeks on this diet). They put the corpses in wooden box often used for butter and that's why the victims are called the Butterbox Babies. The boxes were either buried on the property or at sea or burned in the home furnace. The parents who gave their child to this maternity home would go back and see how their child is doing but were told the child has [passed away] when in fact it had been sold to adopting parents. Between 400 and 600 [passed away] in that home and at least a thousand were adopted but sadly, the adopted babies often suffered from diseases because of the unsanitary conditions and lack of care at the home.
K Wit 3 years ago
This is why Amy coat hanger barret is taking women rights away. She wrote that the US needs a domestic supply of infants to be adopted by the wealthy. Meaning poor white women that are forced to give birth. The black and brown people that this will affect the most are being forced to give birth to supply the corporations and the 13 most wealthy old white guys w minimum wage workers while also having as many as they can charged w felonies ie obtaining criminalized birth control so they cannot vote. This is a concerted effort by the wealthy and the people they pay in the govt and the judges while pretending it's about killing babies so their worshipping fan base gets riled up and votes in their gerrymandered counties excluding the people that will be most affected. Giving their people someone to hate while robbing them blind. Capitalistic exploitism cannot survive wo these conditions just listen to what musk said about chinese low wage workers tiday
K Wit 3 years ago
There was a fact check. Barret didn't write that alito was quoting the cdc. He said in his draft that women that will be forced to give birth don't have to worry bc the affluent will adopt them. Barret and the other women hating authoritarian criminal slave making conservative bribed by corporations "judges" agreed. Two of those judges were accused of sexual assault/harassment by very believable victims that they threw under the bus and called crazy liars out for attention. Barrets religion calls her forced very young girls cult members handmaids. Roberts also said he does not want anyone to have autonomy or privacy bc it's not a right and they will do the wrong things w their bodies and can't be trusted. He wants old white rich politicians to dictate that while he gets paid by the corporations that need a new generation of slave labor. Scotus is no longer a legitimate governing body
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Tamra Stiffler 3 years ago
How can a human being do this to another human being...and an innocent child, no less. Makes me sick to my stomach.
Paul Miller 3 years ago
Saying the babies "passed away" is disgusting. The babies were murdered. They were killed. The criminals running the place slaughtered innocent children. The babies did not passively "pass away," and saying so protects the willfully fragile reader at the expense of the true victim. This policy of censorship will have grave consequences, regardless of its intent.
Ozacoter 3 years ago
This was similarly done in Spain by the church until the late 80s-90s. They would steal a baby from a mother who them considered unfit (like unwed mother) and tell her that the baby did not survive labor. Then sell the baby to rich people to would adopt them. They have so many things to answer for...
Mokayokok 3 years ago
What the f**k is the point of them starving the 'unmarketable' babies? If they were this f****d up in the head they should have just shot the baby, or something quick if it was going to happen regardless - how f****d up do you have to be to get enjoyment out of watching a tiny baby slowly starve to death? I f*****g hate the human race.
Dread Hyena 2 years ago
I also hate the human race, babies included so I'm not terribly concerned by this other than the waste of good scientific studies. Maybe that is what they were doing, seeing how long it took to [unalive] a wee baby with molasses and water.
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Marsha Brown 3 years ago
It wasn't that adoption was illegal, but that in most states, a child could only be adopted by parents of the same race, religion and creed, i.e. Catholic kids could only be adopted by Catholic parents, Jewish kids by Jewish parents, etc. Because Jewish religion, customs and traditions put family first, most Jewish families would adopt, or at least raise, the children of siblings or other relatives who died or were otherwise unable to raise them. That left a very small pool of potential adoptees, and Jewish couples who couldn't conceive often went to great lengths to adopt.
Julia El Cee 3 years ago
This article says that it was illegal for babies to be adopted from other faiths. The Jewish families were mostly lied to: https://canadiancrc.com/Butterbox-Babies_Killers-Child-Trafficking-Canada/Butterbox_Survivors.aspx#:~:text=The%20adoptees%20came%20from%20the,in%20the%201930s%20and%20'40s.
#20
The Cambodian Genocide. You could have been [unalived] just for wearing glasses, therefore being an intellectual (at least this was the Khmer Rouge logic). The prisoners were tortured so badly that they tried to commit suicide in every possibile way, even by using some spoons. The executions used to be like this: the prisoners were put on a straight line and to the second prisoner was given an object like a shovel or a hammer which he had to use to [unalive] the prisoner in front of him. Then, the same object was given to the third prisoners and the cycle would repeat until there was nobody alive except for the last prisoner on the line, who was then [unalived] by the guards. Since many medics were [unalived] or sent to work as farmers, the local regime used child medics to conduct experiments on the prisoners: they used teenagers with no knowledge of western medicine to experiment on people without anesthesia. For example, they opened one person's chest just to see his heart beating. Imho, this s**t is even worse than Unit 731.
Lylan Daina 3 years ago
I highly recommend the book The stones cry out: a Cambodian childhood.
Valentina Lattante 3 years ago
I remember that book! read it as a girl and made a great impression on me
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Unalived is not a word. Is this a PC way of saying killed or dead? There is no PC way of saying killed/dead. Nor should there be. It should be seen as what it is: horrifying. Don’t sugar coat it! The word unalive makes it seem less than it is.
Egg 3 years ago
Exactly. This is literally a post about war crimes, aka rape and murder, why the f**k would there be any censoring, if someone isn't old enough to read the word "killed", they're not old enough to use the f*****g internet. New algoritihim is f*****g b******t.
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BasedWang12 3 years ago (edited)
unalived has to be one of the most annoying "words"... It also kills the flow of the story
Disgruntled Pelican 3 years ago
So according to BP, "killed" calls for a censor but "commit suicide" is fine and dandy? This site is getting ridiculous.
Fiona Harvey 3 years ago
Say "killed". What is this ridiculous "unalived"? Surely we're more advanced than this!!!
#21
The Cadaver Synod
Basically the pope had a previous Pope's corpse exhumed so the corpse could stand trial for something made up. So they dug up his bloated 7 month old corpse and convicted him, retroactively nullifying his papacy. Then they dumped his bloated and convicted corpse in a river. The people got pissed and overthrew the pope, who was strangled in prison. The next pope came along and had the corpse collected from the river and its papacy posthumously reinstated.
897 was a crazy year.
John Spookey 3 years ago
Whole papal history is rather disturbing.It was common to poison and or kill popes by wannabe popes,then they would retaliate and history would repeat itself.After reading history of popes and Vatican I became convinced atheist.All history of religion is dark and sickening.
Load More Replies... Alma Muminovic 3 years ago
I don’t know why the Christian’s keep doing this. The man is dead, it’s too late to take anything away. They did the same thing with a Pagan emperor/leader (can’t remember) by converting him to Christianity after he was dead. The whole point of religion is it’s a choice, you can’t force it on their corpse and call it a day.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago (edited)
As a Catholic, I am horrified at Pope Francis' changes to canon law allowing some pedophiles to continue as priests, in defiance of the Council of Nicea. (Strange fact: the largest number of people killed in the Spanish Inquisition were priests accused of molestation.) This? I'm like, "tacky, but meh." Hardly little-known.
Randy Klefbeck 3 years ago
Guy Fawlkes Day was like that, until there was virtually nothing left of his corpse.
Phillip Shepard 3 years ago
After the Restoration of the Monarchy in England under Charles II in autumn 1660 parliament ordered the exhumation and posthumous execution of several regicides (killers so Charles I). In January 1661 Westminster Abbey was searched for the remains of Cromwell, Henry Ireton and John Bradshaw. The corpses were beheaded and the heads displayed on poles for several decades.
ryan gentilcore 3 years ago
This would make for an insane movie Someone should tell whoever directed death of Stalin, they'd be a great fit. On a side note, I'm surprised Bo didn't censor corpse with something stupid like, unalived person
#22
"Khuk Khi Kai," or the "Chicken Poop Prison" in Thailand. Used by French forces to hold political prisoners (rebellious Thai people) in the Chanthaburi region.
The long-standing impacts of this much-feared torture are still felt in the region today - there's a Thai saying for those who buck authority that roughly translates to "Be careful not to get caught in a chicken poop prison." I learned about this prison from my parents who learned about it from theirs.
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How it worked, was there was a small, 2-story prison. Bottom floor houses the prisoners, and the top floor is basically a huge chicken coop.
The grated floor/ceiling ensures that the chicken poop falls onto the prisoners below.
Apparently, even though the "maximum sentence" in Khuk Khi Kai was around a week, it was one of the most feared punishments there was.
Lori Sifuentes 3 years ago
My dad worked in a chicken (egg) farm. The smell is terrible, there were always flies/maggots around the bottom where the excrement had to be shoveled away, and there was also bird louse that could eat your skin up. He took a shower before coming home so he wouldn't bring the smell with him, & they used a laundry service that washed their uniforms for them so they also wouldn't have to be brought home. I know it sounds horrible but the place where he worked was "clean". But there were 4 million birds per house, & 7 houses total.
NannyChachi 3 years ago
You know, I love my chickens as the pets that I intended them to be. But that coop is nasty if I don't clean it and put down fresh bedding every couple of weeks. Their poop is not so bad. It's the pee that stinks to high Heaven!
April 3 years ago (edited)
Chickens don't pee though, they don't even have a urethra. They do still have to rid their body of uric acid of course, but it is combined together with the feces as one product that exits through the cloaca.
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MiriPanda 3 years ago
I had the same question and googled it: "Well, those who don’t know, the poop of chicken has a very strong and extremely suffocating smell of ammonia. It’s not possible to stand the stench for more than a few minutes for a human. In fact, if forced to do so, the smell can create myriad adverse reactions such as vomiting, headache, and extreme level of irritation. This can also lead to severe depression in human beings."
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Lothar Ohr 3 years ago
Some historians believe it was made up, but then it sounds like something the French would do, or any other colonial power
#23
Croatia's Ustachas. Sick radical m***********s. "An ustacha that isn't able to take out a baby from its mother's womb with a blade, isn't a good ustacha." -Ante Pavelic Some of their most horrific crimes were burning babies infront of their parents, mangling kids from 0-14 y/o with axes, raping girls infront of their mothers, cutting off the ears and noses of their prisoners while being alive. Even the nazis were horrified by these guys methods.
Caro Caro 3 years ago
The Ustaše was a Croatian fascist and ultranationalist organization active, as one organization, between 1929 and 1945, formally known as the Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary. Its members murdered hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, and Roma as well as political dissidents in Yugoslavia during World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ustase
Maggie Man 3 years ago
Yes this should be made more widely known. Too bad, the west prefers to demonise the Serbs because of their friendship with the Russians.
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Shelli Aderman 3 years ago
Mustaches? I can’t read the posts anymore, due to all of the […..] and *****! OY!
Keilana Ferenczy 3 years ago
God... burning babies in front of their parents and raping girls in front of their mothers. That gets to me the most.
Vlada Vlada 3 years ago
Croats had the only one in the world concentracion camp for kids, ussually Serbian kids. Google "concentration camps for children in Croatia" you ll find out their real side in WW2
Curry on... 3 years ago
I'm always shocked at how these deranged 'leaders' seemingly hypnotize their followers to allow such atrocities.
John Spookey 3 years ago
Nah nah.Both Serbians and Croatians were going at each other,that story has more angles.It’s a complex history,I’m not the one to judge.Read the history of the Balkans in WW2 if you want to know more ,but neither side was acting nice and decent .
Mirjana Balta 3 years ago
Not in WWII. Croatians sided with the Nazis and tortured and executed hundreds of thousands. Mostly Serbs. This is what let to the back and forth in the Balkans in the 90s. Look up Jasenovac. During WWII Serbs fought the Nazis.
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Shaun Coleman 2 years ago
When a Nazi is horrified by your actions you really are a sick radical m*********r.
#24
The United Fruit Company’s crimes in Latin America. They perpetrated massacres, slave labour, overthrew governments and generally just ravaged each country they stepped foot in. They left when the soil was dry and no-longer efficient, leaving millions out of work, destabilised governments and still continued to extort locals for years later. It is absolutely disgusting what they did, I encourage everyone to read about it.
Lucifer 3 years ago
They did this with the help of US government. And the term 'banana republic' was coined because of their monopoly in some regions.
Terry Fergusson 3 years ago
The company then became Chiquita. The USA essentially destroyed the economies of central america and propped up dictators and death squads and is now upset about all the people coming north to get away from the devastation they caused. You broke it, you bought it.
GPZ 3 years ago
For a country built on the ideals of democracy (and I’m not saying they’re alone in this but seeing as they’re the topic of this particular post) the US seems to have gone out of its way to ensure a lack of it in some other countries, especially South America. How many millions of people have been tortured and murdered under fascist governments installed by the CIA/US.
B S 3 years ago
and now the drug lords, warlords and cartels are doing the same. and all the morons who buy up avocados and quinoa like its going out of style in 1st world nations just fuel the machine.
robman1ok1 Hernandez 2 years ago
I don't think avocados and quinoa are as profitable as cocaine and heroin. So I'm not sure that particular purchase is me helping fund the Sinaloa.
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Lothar Ohr 3 years ago
Suddenly I understand why an American fruit company was the main villian in Tropico 4😋
Mark Melton 2 years ago
United Fruit Company changed it's name to Chiquita Bananas. They are still just as evil.
K80.127 3 years ago
I was waiting for this one. Rios Montt was a very bad man. Once president of Guatemala, he leas a mass genocide of the Mayans (including: rape, torture, taking the children from their parents- unaliving the parents- and sending them to be sold for child labor or adopted in the US. He used "spreading Christianity" as his crutch and reason to eliminate villages. This ties into the United Fruit Company and their forced slave labor as many of the individuals were Guatemalan/Mayan. It's amazing how many genocides the USA has funded under the guise of "Christianity".
#25
In my family's region in Africa they used to carry out the "capital punishment" by snakebite.
Just a snakebite to each ankle, and then letting the man spend his remaining time with his family before he [passed away] (under supervision).
I thought it sounded sort of humane in a way, like our lethal injections, but apparently they say it was one of the most horrific ways that existed.
not_at_school ;) 3 years ago
i guess it sounds more humane than hangings and stuff, and it does sound sort of like lethal injections.
Load More Replies... Shelli Aderman 3 years ago (edited)
2 or 3 days of torture while your internal organs fail does NOT sound like a humane method…
Patrick O'Harris 3 years ago
I mean, depending on the venom... Most are pretty horrible. I mean, having your venes full of blood thats too thick to properly flow... Or having such thin blood it runs out of every opening. (I know theres other ways venoms can work, thats just examples).
NoPandashere 3 years ago
Well slowl and painfull death infront of your family is a punishment for the person and for the whole family.
WoodenLion 3 years ago
i think different toxins work different ways - maybe it was one that killed you but didn't hurt. probably not
Grabthar's screwdriver 3 years ago
Depends on the venom, creeping necrosis is not a way any sane person would choose to go.
Commander OwO 3 years ago
I want to know if there was an incident in which the guy handling the snake got bit
Amanda Trent 3 years ago
THANK YOU!!! I was beginning to think I was the only one that thought that!
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Alex Ernst 3 years ago
Not that lethal injections are humane, it's just less unpleasant for the audience than hanging or just shooting someone. Lots of ways it can go horribly wrong.
#26
Once in the seventies, a film crew was filming an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man, and they were shooting at an amusement park fun house kind of thing. A stage hand was moving what he thought was a prop wax figure on a noose, only for one arm to fall off, revealing human flesh and bone underneath. After an autopsy, it was revealed to be the 60 something year old corpse of an old wild west outlaw that had been taxidermied to an extent.
WillemPenn 3 years ago
They were filming at the Pike in Long Beach, CA. It is a legend here. The guy who ran the fun house didn’t even know it was a real corpse when he came into possession of it. The corpse was that of an outlaw who died in a shootout. Nobody wanted to claim to be his relative so the undertaker just propped up the body in his parlor to show of his embalming skills and make sales. Eventually the corpse ended up as part of a freak show and somewhere over the years the story of it being a real human corpse got lost and it made the rounds as a prop. SMDM was not happy when the discovery was made because production had to be shut down and there was a big investigation. No one could believe the body was half a century old and they figured foul play must have been involved.
Lacia Lew 3 years ago
Did nobody try to get forensic checks on it to determine the actual time of death?
Load More Replies... censorshipsucks 3 years ago
If there wast still human flesh, ie not just skin around stuffing, which is actually what taxidermy is, then it must have either been rotten or *embalmed* whcih is a different process to taxidermy.
Stephanie Chapman 3 years ago
When Poltergeist was filmed they used real cadavers for the dead people in the pool. They said it was cheaper then buying fake bodies. The actress who had to swim around with them had no idea! https://screenrant.com/poltergeist-movie-ending-real-human-skeletons-reason/
#27
The January 1945 sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff. It was a German ship carrying fleeing Germans from the Eastern Front to the West through the Baltic Sea. It was sunk by the Soviet Navy shorty after setting sail. The total [perished] toll is unknown but estimated at over 9000 since there were so many stowaways. It is the worst maritime disaster ever, several times more than the Titanic. It didn't get nearly the press because they were the enemy so who cares, and the Nazi media certainly didn't report it because they're at the waning days of a war they're badly losing so the last thing they need is more hits to their already sinking morale.
Weed in the Garden 3 years ago
From Wikipedia, "MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military transport ship which was sunk on 30 January 1945 by Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea while evacuating civilian evacuees from East Prussia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Estonia[3] and German military personnel from Gotenhafen (Gdynia) as the Red Army advanced. By one estimate,[4][5] 9,400 people died, making it the largest loss of life in a single ship sinking in history'.
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Jrog 3 years ago (edited)
To be fair, large part of the blame is on the Nazis since the ship behaved as a hospital ship, despite being ineligible for the status and not being signaled as one. It was armed, it did not properly display the red cross markings, and was carrying active personnel, all while steaming with lights on in an active war zone.
Marion Banks-Wilkinson 3 years ago
My German brother in law and his family were fleeing the Russian army from the same port, they got the next boat.
Captain America 3 years ago
It’s a very sad thing, this story, and I don’t want to make light of it. But… I see what you did there: “sinking” morale.
Jane Campbell 3 years ago
Got my doubts 9000 would get on that ship without it sinking at the dock. Been on enough cruise ships to think this.
#28
Anyone who's familiar with Mary, Queen of Scots most likely knows that she was beheaded, but many people don't know *how* she was beheaded. My APUSH teacher told my class this story and it's probably one of the most simultaneously interesting, funniest, and saddest executions in history.
The first thing to note was that Mary wore a red dress rather than a white one for a very specific reason: after the execution of a royal or high-class person, commoners would often tear off blood-stained fabric from their clothing solely to flex that they got their hands on the blood of a noble. With red fabric, it would be difficult to see actual blood on the dress. Smart move on Mary's end.
During the actual execution, it was said that Mary's executioner was not very experienced and actually *missed* the initial swing, jamming the axe or whatever weapon they used into the back of her head rather than through her neck. This didn't [take out] her yet, though, and she instead made some sort of medieval olden-time exclamation that can be roughly translated to "goddamn!"
EDIT: After the executioner was done, he picked up her head by the hair, not knowing it was a wig, and the head fell out and rolled onto the floor (thanks Plug_5 and moiochi for reminding me)
After Mary was properly [unalived], her body was left for public viewing, but the audience was surprised to see her red dress start to rustle before allowing Mary's small terrier dog to climb out from underneath. Tragically, the dog refused to leave the body and eventually passed away after staying at the same spot for a lengthy amount of time.
History buffs, please feel free to make any corrections as I heard this story a while ago and probably made a few errors in my recalling! :)
TL;DR: Mary, Queen of Scots avoided crazy memorabilia-savers at her execution with a very intelligent move, got shanked in the head during a failed attempt, the executioner dropped her head onto the floor, and had her dog in her dress with her the entire time
Susie Elle 3 years ago
Jesus christ BP, 'unalived', seriously? Aside from that; that's quite a way to go :/
Julija Nėjė 3 years ago
Hey, BP editor here, we would love to post uncensored words and pics but unfortunately then the article would get demonetized. Sorry, we know you all hate it!
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Jayne Kyra 3 years ago
Describing a f*****g EXECUTION and they censor KILLED. What the actual f**k?
Uncle Bud 3 years ago
I agree. It's the dumbest modem word I've ever read.
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The guillotine was invented to be a cleaner way and more humane way to execute someone. An executioner did not always have the skill to take off the person's head with one blow and would sometimes hack away at someone.
Gail Edenson 3 years ago
Please enough of "unalived !" Were did you get your education from? There is no such word as Unalived!!!!
Patti Vance 3 years ago
first i heard of her wearing red because she wanted to thwart souvenir hunters. all that i have read on her and the other tudor rulers was that she wore red because it was the traditional color for catholic martyrs. apart from that bit, this is a pretty accurate account of her execution regarding the need for multiple whacks, the wig, and the dog.
Uncle Bud 3 years ago
Every time I see this stupid word I just roll my eyes.
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#29
Margaret Beaufort - mother of Henry VII (father of Henry VIII)
She was married off at age 12 to Edmund (25) who was desperate to get her pregnant as quickly as he could. It was not unusual for members of the aristocracy to marry young. It was slightly more unusual, because of the risk to both mother and child, for them to get pregnant before the age of 14.
Edmund [passed away] of plague while Margaret was pregnant, she was widowed and alone and pregnant during war. The birth was a very difficult one and would scar her forever. For a time they believed that she and her unborn child would perish. Not only was she very young but she was also slight of stature and undeveloped for her age so it’s a wonder she even survived childbirth. It was so difficult for her that she never became pregnant again over the rest of her years, despite remarrying two more times. It is widely believed that she was physically damaged during the childbirth and was unable to conceive again, but it’s also possible she was too traumatized to ever put herself in that situation again. Either way, Margaret devoted herself to her son, calling him “my dearest and only desired joy in this world.”
Aileen Grist 3 years ago
It's as well that the OP didn't say that she dedicated her life- or it would become unalivacated her life to him
G R 3 years ago
Yeah but she ended up basically winning the entire War of the Roses (conspired with her York rival Elizabeth Woodville to overthrow Richard III and orchestrated her son's return which led to the Battle of Bosworth where Richard III was killed), was essentially responsible for bringing the entire Plantagenet line which had lasted hundreds of years to an end, created the House of Tudor via her son and the political marriage she helped arrange with the intention of uniting York and Lancaster and ending decades of war, held huge power behind the throne during her time as the mother of the King of England, and was Henry VIII's grandmother. Plus her work and commitment to education and the arts left a lasting mark on England that can be seen to this day. She was one of the most extraordinary women to ever live.
G R 3 years ago
Not mentioning that her son literally became King of England and the first ever Tudor monarch (dad of Henry VIII and grandad of Elizabeth I) is uh slightly stopping before the punchline m.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago
Uhm. Since he's "Henry VII", I'd say that punchline is already in the wording? He'd just be "Henry Beaufort" if he wouldn't have been king, right?
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RinLo14 3 years ago
And thanks to the insane Republican Party in the U.S., young girls who become pregnant through rape or incest will now be forced to give birth. They don't care about the risk to girl's lives or the permanent damage to their bodies no matter how "pro-life" they claim to be.
Limey 3 years ago
This censorship resulting in stupid phrases like “unalived” and “ended himself” etc is getting ridiculous to the point where reading stuff on BP is becoming increasingly annoying and not entertaining. If people are “triggered” (ridiculous millennial nonsense) by everyday words about death then lord help us all. How do these people even read a book… oh wait, they don’t
T Lane 3 years ago (edited)
The only "triggered" people I see are the ones who can't get it through their thick skulls that the censorship is because of advertisers, not "millennials." It's just a silly made up word, why are you letting it upset you so much?
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#30
The Parsley Massacre. Dominican dictator really didn't like Haitians, so he ordered Dominican troops to the northern border region, which was fairly loose and undefined at that time (1937), and told the troops to [unalive] any Haitians on the Dominican side which, again, was fairly unclear. How they determined who was Haitian and who was Dominican was based on how they pronounced the word 'parsley'...the vowel sounds in French and Haitian Kreyol make a Kreyol or French speaker saying the Spanish word very obvious. The reports of what happened are truly horrific...babies on bayonets, head bashed on trees, etc...and somewhere around 15-20K people were murdered in less than a week. Most Haitians have stories about extended family or friends who were hunted like animals and murdered, and it's said that the Dajabòn River is where the murdered souls live...lots of folks won't drink water or wash in the river because it is (still) a river of blood. It ran red during the Massacre. The DR paid reparations and citizens/survivors in Haiti got about 2 cents as their reparations because of corruption. The DR is still engaged in trying to get rid of anyone that looks Haitian (read: dark-skinned) with regular deportation of even Dominican citizens who might be Haitian descended or are too dark skinned to be Dominican (by state standards). It has created a huge crisis at the border...people are being forced into Haiti and don't speak Kreyol, don't have anywhere to go, and will never find work on Haiti. It's almost like the Massacre never ended...just evolved.
Mouse 3 years ago
Ok, first the unalived thing didn't bother me much. But it's been said so much in all these BP post,now I'm annoyed. Stop infantilizing your readers ffs.
Becky Klebe 3 years ago
But 'murdered' makes through a couple of times. Makes no sense.
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Althea Armwood 3 years ago
Um, I agree about the "unalived" thing but can we stop focusing on that and focus on the fact that THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND THE MASSACRE HAS NEVER ENDED?! It's like it doesn't even matter to anyone!!
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago
THANK you! I was getting really annoyed, at this point (just reading through this post today) and I'm glad you mention it.
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Alonso Victoria 3 years ago
So Die and death and kill are wrong but massacre don't... massacre is even a worst word!! It means a lot of people were "unalived", stop being clowns.
John Seidel 3 years ago
I'm not reading any more of these. The "unalived" b******t is just irritating. Why is there a mentally defective censor working at Bored Panda?
Catherine Spencer-Mills 3 years ago
"unalived" early on and then later murdered. WTF is the difference?
#31
During prohibition the government funded and lead an operation to release barrels of alcohol that they had poisoned to make people sick and shy away from bootleg liquor. Lots of people ended up [passing away] but people still drank more than ever.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
Government “forgotL to warn people about it. Since it had previously been OK to use in making “bathtub gin”, no one thought it would be hazardous. Just ONE warning would’ve saved lives.
Alex Boyd 3 years ago
Some more details on this: it was industrial alcohol (which isn't supposed to be ingested and is already poisonous to some degree), but they made it even more poisonous, because people were processing it to make it drinkable, usually for sale. There were warnings, but they weren't widely heeded, because everyone already knew that illegal alcohol wasn't necessarily safe. (Also, a lot of the people drinking the absolute worst stuff were severely dependent alcoholics, who'd drink anything to stave off withdrawal symptoms.) There' s a good article on it here: https://www.vox.com/2014/8/8/5975605/alcohol-prohibition-poison
robman1ok1 Hernandez 2 years ago
At least no one was unalived... passed away, yes but thank you not unalived... I hate that word so much...just like f*****g umami.
Markus Holstein 3 years ago
Yup, and the government's response was to put more and more poison (think methanol, diesel fuel) into the booze for years
#32
The St. Pierre Snake Invasion / The Eruption of Mt. Pelee
Volcanic eruption, Snake attacks, Boiling Mud Slide, Government negligence, Major volcanic eruption, Tsunami.
Population of 30,000 reduced to a population of 2.
In the late 1890’s and early 1900’s, St. Pierre, Martinique was known as the “Paris of the West Indies”. It was renown for its red-tiled cottage, beautiful tropical plants and charming streets. Although most of the population of 20,000 were native Martiniquans, most of the wealthy were Creoles or French colonial officials. The only thing marring this paradise was the volcano looming over its picturesque streets. Citizens of the area were so use to the volcanic activity on the ‘bald mountain’, that no one took it seriously when the fresh steaming vent-holes and earth tremors stared during April 1902.
On April 23, 1902, minor explosions began at the summit of the volcano. By early May, ash began to rain down continuously, and the nauseating stench of sulfur filled the air. The homes on the mountainside were made uninhabitable. Even worse, more than 100 snakes slithered down and invaded the mulatto quarter of St Pierre. The 6-ft long serpents [unalived] 50 people, mostly children, and many animals.
There are reports of horses, pigs and dogs screaming as red ants and foot long centipedes crawled up their legs and bit them. Things came to a head when on May 5, a landslide of boiling mud and water from the Etang Sec crater lake spilled into the River Blanche. Near the mouth of the river, 23 workman were [unalived] in a rum distillery.
This was followed by a tsunami that [unalived] hundreds. This naturally caused concern in the town, and many wanted to leave for Fort-de-France, Martinique’s second most important city. Unfortunately, this all coincided with a national election and public officials wanted to keep people in town to cast their ballots. They convened a committee to assess the danger, with the only scientist involved being a high school science teacher. The report they sent to Governor Louis Mouttet said “there is nothing in the activity of Mt. Pelée that warrants a departure from St. Pierre.” It concluded that “the safety of St. Pierre is completely assured.” On the assurance of that report, people from the countryside flocked into St. Pierre for safety.
They could not have been more wrong.
Three days later, May 8, Mt Pelee finally exploded, sending a murderous avalanche of white-hot lava straight toward the town. Within three minutes, St Pierre was completely obliterated.
There was a V shaped notched cut through the cliffs surrounding the summit crater. This acted as a gun sight pointing down at the town sending super-heated gas, ash and rock down at more than 100 miles per hour. The on slot was enough to move a three ton statue sixteen meters from its base, and blow one meter thick masonry walls to smithereens. It continued down to the shore and hit the ships in the harbor with hurricane force, capsizing several ships killing their crews. The heat set rum warehouses and distilleries ablaze and sent rivers of flaming liquid through the streets.
Of its 30,000 population, there were only two people survived.
Louis-Auguste Cyparis survived because he was in a poorly ventilated, dungeon-like jail cell.
Léon Compère-Léandre lived on the edge of the city and escaped with severe burns. Havivra Da Ifrile, a young girl, reportedly escaped with injuries during the eruption by taking a small boat to a cave down shore, and was later found adrift two miles from the island, unconscious. The event marked the only major volcanic disaster in the history of France and its overseas territories.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
“Unalived”. What is it with this ridiculous censorship? I am curious in genral. I understand for most swear words since there may be a few kids but why censor words such as “r****m” or “death” in the posts?
Julija Nėjė 3 years ago
Hey, BP editor here, we would love to post uncensored words and pics but unfortunately then the article would get demonetized. Sorry, we know you all hate it!
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Judes 3 years ago
Surely there are three survivors, not two? Louis-Auguste Cyparis the prisoner, Léon Compère-Léandre on the edge of the city, and Havivra Da Ifrile in the boat. Unless one of these three later died? Or are they not including the girl in the boat because her story is only that she 'reportedly escaped'?
Sheila Stamey 3 years ago
I agree about the censorship. There was one the other day that had so many things censored, not swear words. But just stuff, and it was nearly unbearable to read it. Almost a puzzle.
Joe Reaves 3 years ago
The podcast 'Doomsday: History's Most Dangerous Podcast' has a fun (depending on your definition of fun) episode on this.
Patti Vance 3 years ago
just a piece of trivia: bob dylan wrote a song about this event and can be found on his "desire' album. it's pretty good.
Diamond Velvetleaf 3 years ago
Why say repeatedly that only 2 survived, only to then describe the 3 survivors?
#33
The Halifax Explosion.
Regarded by many as the biggest man-made explosion prior to the invention of the atomic bomb. A ship laden with explosives collided with another vessel in Halifax Harbour. The resulting explosion flattened much of the city's downtown core, [unaliving] roughly 2,000 and injuring 9,000.
The blast is said to have temporarily displaced the water in the harbour, forming a tsunami that reached up to 15 metres high, surging over the wreckage of the waterfront.
The following day, Halifax was hit by a blizzard that dumped 40 cm of snow on top of the city, further complicating rescue efforts.
The city is also home to a cemetery where many victims of the Titanic were laid to rest. It is said that the body identification system developed at the time of the Titanic's sinking in 1912 aided efforts to identify victims of the Halifax explosion in 1917.
Isabella 3 years ago
Why on Earth they do that? Silly is a njce word! ! I am so angry with this! What is wrong with using the correct word for this? "Killing", it is an English word, dear BP.
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Davo gifman 3 years ago
If a word such as dying, death, dead, or kill, killing, and killed actually triggers someone. They may want to seek professional help; instead of using ridiculous word in place of.
NsG 3 years ago
If I remember a short documentary I saw on this, there was one heroic train driver (or something) who returned to the radio to warn incoming trains to stop, potentially saving hundreds more lives. His name escapes me, but his pocket watch (minus hands which were blown off in the explosion) appears in the museum dedicated to the event.
Linda Roy 3 years ago
Nice to see a comment for this article, instead of whining about 'that' word 👍! The aid that was immediately sent from Boston saved a lot of lives and many 🇨🇦 will ALWAYS be grateful for that. The telegraph operator was Vincent Coleman, and he stayed at his post in Halifax while everyone was urging him to leave because they knew an explosion was seconds away. RIP Mr. Coleman
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T. D. Bostick 3 years ago
BP doesn't realize that children's books in English use 'die' and 'kill' without qualms.
Cydney Golden 3 years ago
There's a great novel about this by Robert MacNeil (of MacNeil/Lehrer Report) Burden of Desire
#34
Dekulakization. The soviets [unalived] an entire social class of people. My great grandma was one of them, and witnessed her whole family be slaughtered in front of her. Then was told to run. My grandma was then raised in a gulag. Apparently it's not genocide though, because [taking out] an entire social class doesn't fit the technical definition.
Jonny Man 3 years ago
I recall being in a bar back in early 2013 helping some friends with a gig they had there, Pink Floyd tribute concert. One of the guys we met there was a hardcore Tankie - if you're involved in leftist or progressive politics at all you know the kind. Got a few drinks in him and started spouting off about the necessity of dekulakizing the peasantry back in the day to kill off - sorry, [UNALIVE]-off class enemies. Sick thing is, this stupid jerk would've been first to go if that stuff happened today. Comfortable semi-bourgeois "working class" guy like him? Yeah, they'd've shot him and taken his stuff and that'd be the end of it. Someone oughta do a song called "Tankie Punks F*** Off!"
Literal Pigeon 3 years ago
As a leftist- this is what the term "tankie" means. Not "any leftist I disagree with" like some people seem to think.
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Joe Reaves 3 years ago
By the end of the process kulak pretty much meant 'anyone who disagrees with or inconveniences the regime in any way' rather than a specific social class. It was just a convenient label to stick on someone so you could kill them or ship them off to a gulag and take anything they might own.
Yulia Yakovenko 3 years ago
Same as now " Nazi is anyone we don't like" Will it ever and
Load More Replies... PADNA 3 years ago
I am from Lithuania, a country famous for being a marching land for most of the wars. So couple of stories: * great grandfather suffered an imprisonment by germans (this was either during WW1 or first occupation in WW2, not quite sure). This was pre-concentration camps era - all prisoners were forced to slave labor for german farmers. His only story from those times "stones are the only not edible items". So he returned home after the war, slowly got on his feet. Married, built a tiny house, had 4 kids. WW2 started. Then soviets came. They saw list that he was working for german farmers and thus is german spy. Congratulations, you have won a one way trip to northern syberia where 2 of your children may rest there permanently. That tiny house was converted to a school and later burnt to ashes.
PADNA 3 years ago
The other story is from my neighbor. She used to live on a farm in a rural village. German army visited, cow was in a grass in front of the house, they asked for a milk. They replied that cow cannot give any. Germans left. Then came russian army, asked for a milk. Her father explained the same thing. Russians straight up shot the father and took the cow. Liberators at their finest.
Load More Replies... Arnetha Elliott 3 years ago (edited)
Instead of unalived maybe eliminated? A thesaurus to reword would keep your readers interested.....
Niall Mac Iomera 3 years ago
...what a strange distinction to make. It's not regicide either because it doesn't fit the technical definition
Bert van Aalsburg 3 years ago
We were asked for dark events. And here we are, sanitizing those events by substituting [unalived] for everything from "killed" to "died". Can't say those, but we can say a family was slaughtered.
Seth Matthews 3 years ago
SERIOUSLY... If you're so worried about people being triggered by a word then add a disclaimer, don't change the English language just to spare someone's feelings when the word isn't offensive in the first place, (unpleasant maybe, but not offensive.) There are all forms of death in the world, its a fact of life, might as well call it like it is. If you can't handle using the proper words, maybe you shouldn't be writing or reporting in the first place.
Michelle Colman 2 years ago
It’s not about poor word choice; this info artical will be removed by the site if use of word killed, killing, murdered slaughtered etc is used too many times—-
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You know Jameson Whiskey? Well a long a*s time ago in like the 19th one of their family Heirs fed a little girl to cannibals. Like legit went and bought a little girl in the Congo as a slave and brought her up to a cannibal tribe because he wanted to see them. Sick f**k drew pictures of it and s**t as it was happening. Of course for years the family tried to bury the fact, and the stories and such. Discredit the witnesses. But the crazy bastard was happy to document the whole thing, his only rebuttal incase it reflected badly on him was that "he wanted to see if they would do it"
And his accounts matched up with the evidence witnesses had provided.
Eastendbird 3 years ago
Yeah, this is disputed. Link to the Snopes article: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jameson-whiskey-slave-cannibal/
Michelle Carlson 3 years ago
They don't dispute it happened or that he was present, but only whether he "bought" the girl. He did pay someone to see it happen.
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MCathenaE 2 years ago (edited)
Jameson paid 6 handkerchiefs for a 10 year old girl, gave her to the tribe & detailed her death & dismemberment. His translator on the expedition later stated all of this in an affidavit. Jameson didnt make it back from the expedition, but His journal did. His wife tried to downplay it as "he didn't think the tribe would actually do it". There are enough accounts to say he did do this intentionally.
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#36
I am surprised nobody has mentioned the Atrocities in the Congo Free State perpetrated by Belgian King Leopold II. His tenure was responsible for about 10 million deaths in Congo, not to mention numerous other Congo residents whose hands were chopped for not meeting rubber cultivation quotas.
#37
**The Battle of Hayes Pond**. Robeson County, North Carolina. January 18, 1958. During the 1950s, the Lumbee Indians made nationwide news when they came into conflict with the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan headed by Klan Grand Dragon James W. "Catfish Cole. At that time, Cole had began a campaign of harassment against the Lumbee, claiming they were "mongrels" and "half-breeds" whose "race mixing" threatened to upset the established order of the segregated Jim Crow South. After giving a series of speeches denouncing the "loose morals" of Lumbee women, Cole burned a cross in the front yard of a Lumbee woman in St. Pauls, North Carolina, as a "warning" against "race mixing." Emboldened, Cole called for a Klan rally on January 18, 1958, near the town of Maxton. The Lumbee, led by recent veterans of the Second World War, decided to disrupt the rally. The **"Battle of Hayes Pond"**, also known as "the Klan Rout", made national news. Cole had predicted more than 5,000 Klansmen would show up for the rally, but fewer than 100 and possibly as few as three dozen attended. Approximately 500 Lumbee, armed with guns and sticks, gathered in a nearby swamp, and when they realized they possessed an overwhelming numerical advantage, attacked the Klansmen. The Lumbee encircled the Klansmen, opening fire and wounding four Klansmen in the first volley, none seriously. The remaining Klansmen panicked and fled. Cole was found in the swamps, arrested and tried for inciting a riot. The Lumbee celebrated the victory by burning Klan regalia and dancing around the open flames. The Battle of Hayes Pond, which marked the end of Klan activity in Robeson County, is celebrated as a Lumbee holiday.
Brenda 3 years ago
My mom grew up in Charleston, WV. As a child they lived wherever they afford, often "the other side of the tracks ". Many friends & neighbors were African-American. One of her best friends was & they often played together. The family was awoken one night by yelling & general mayhem. Some KKK members decided to teach the family a lesson about fraternizing with "those people ". They burned a cross on the front lawn, damaged the house & started tearing up their garden. Imagine the KKK's surprise when a 6ft 4in man came out with a shotgun and "those people " came to help them. If was about 5 to 1 against the KKK. The neighborhood stood against them, making them fix things. It started at 10 & continued until early morning. . Funnily enough, that neighborhood never had a problem again because they stuck together.
Bender Bending Rodríguez 3 years ago
Only thing I see bad about this is none of the racists died.
#38
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
If I remember correctly, Between 1932 and 1972 they basically had around 600 all black subjects where they treated syphilis on some patients, and then faked most to others, just to see how the disease would attack the body. Like the ones they were fake treating told them “oh you’re good. You’ve been treated for this s**t.” And they continued to get worse and be documented it. This is also the time we discovered that aspirin was called a “miracle drug” for the relief it gave these patients in back aches, headaches, etc. These people, may I remind you not a single one of them was white, were treated like lab rats. To this day I’m still in shock that for over 40 these so called scientists had the moral turpitude to perform such atrocities on other human beings, and at the end of it all day “eh. It was for science.” Disgusting.
title track 3 years ago
Unfortunately, it's because of these disgusting kinds of things that modern medicine is where it is today. If only it had come from a more humane source.
Ozacoter 3 years ago
Not really true. Most cruel human experimentation was pointless (like the ones in Japan and Germany during ww2) or could have easily be done differently. There is no progress through torture no matter what some media says.
Load More Replies... Althea Armwood 3 years ago
It's one of the main reasons why some African Americans don't trust not only the government but medicine (such as COVID vaccines). It's almost more humane to die from the disease itself than to be "treated" and studied in a place where an entire group of people were treated like objects instead of human beings.
#39
When the women's pill was introduced in the 1960s it contained approximately 40 times more estrogen and progesterone, which causes cancer. The pill was tested on marginalized Puerto Rican women because there were no birth control laws and it was close to the US. The inventor of the pill, whose sponsor and rep was Gamble of Proctor & Gamble, was pro-eugenics and thought that the poor should be cleansed. Women died quickly, the side effects were horrific and long lasting, and many women died of ovarian cancers years after the tests. [https://www.history.com/news/birth-control-pill-history-puerto-rico-enovid](https://www.history.com/news/birth-control-pill-history-puerto-rico-enovid)
Nubis Knight 3 years ago
If the pill would've been invented today and tested on men it never get accredited cause of it's heavy side-effects. If you think I'm exxaggerating: that's exactly what happened to the "pill for men" while in development a few years ago.
Jihana 3 years ago
When I have a headache I'd rather swallow a pill than chew on willow bark and pray to some wizard in the sky.
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#40
There's a surprising amount of people that don't know about the Rwanda genocide that happened pretty recently (like when Bill Clinton was president). Basically there were two "types" of Rwanda natives: the Hutus and Tutsis. The Hutus believed the Tutsis were invaders of land that was theirs, and after the assassination of the Rwandan leader (who was a Hutu), the Hutus were ordered to "chop down the tall trees" which meant [unalive] the Tutsis. The "differences" between Hutus and Tutsis were that Hutus were supposedly darker-skinned, shorter in stature, and had shorter faces. That's why the Tutsis were called "tall trees." The events that followed [unalive] so many Tutsis, yet the UN was stingy to call it a genocide (they never like using that term because of its association with WWII and the Nazis). It wasn't until very recently that the [unalivings] stopped. To this day, Hutus and Tutsis that survived the genocide speak at events side-by-side speaking about how terrible the events were.
hello Wendy 2 years ago
I had to watch that movie in ap history! SUCH a good movie! But, imo, doesn't exaggerate or sensationalize, just good story telling in a way that is more engaging than a dry historical documentary. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it!
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T'Mar of Vulcan 3 years ago
And guess who sought to divide the indigenous population into these groups, making one hate the other? If you guessed "colonizers", you get points. Look up the absolute disgusting things that colonizers did to the indigenous populations of Africa. I'm a descendant of Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and of course British settlers to my country and I wish they'd all stayed the heck out. Even if it meant I wouldn't be here today. The things Europe did to our beautiful continent are shocking.
WillemPenn 3 years ago
Madeline Albright is being lionized now, but she could have stopped this and she and the Clinton WH turned their backs. Also the Hutu/Tutsi distinction was really perpetuated by Belgian colonizers as a way to foment division and prevent uprising. Those labeled Tutsi were given better positions and Hutu were looked down upon. Modern scholarship has demonstrated questionable genetic distinctions between the two groups and proven physical distinctions fallacious.
Mohammad Ammar 3 years ago
It's best if you don't read up on it, trust me. The humans of New york series on this was unforgettable, and not in a nice way.
Susie Elle 3 years ago
There's documentaries on Youtube on this, it was bone-chilling to watch
#41
Japanese Comfort Women. Basically, after a Japanese military unit occupied a village, they would ship out the more attractive females to sites where military officers would routinely r*pe them. Many were as young as 14 and would be separated from their family. This went on for a whopping 13 years. Ironic how a society with so much devotion to honor committed such an unfair and unborable atrocity. What's scarier about this is how these ra*pe camps likely inspired many Hentai creators when making their content, which would explain a lot.
Lothar Ohr 3 years ago
"Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes--" "But they starts with thinking about people as things..." --from Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett.
PandaRave 3 years ago
You know what I don’t get? How are so many people during this war pedophiles? How is it comforting to molest a little girl? Who wants to do that to a teen?
Ozacoter 3 years ago
I am convinced that many many people would be ok with raping children and teenagers if it was legal. I mean it is illegal and extremely frowned uppon and yet children keep being molested, look at the church. I always said that i dont want to know how many people i know would be willing to do it.
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#42
The Armenian Genocide. The exact numbers of people that died isn’t even know, but historians speculate around 1.5 to 2 million people were [unalived] during it. Very horrible event that has been brushed under the rug.
Mr Zipperface 3 years ago (edited)
Armenian Christians exiled, murdered or forcibly converted to Islam by Ottoman Turks. Modern Turkey denies it was genocide.
#43
1989 Tiananmen Square protests In what became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, troops armed with assault rifles and accompanied by tanks fired at the demonstrators and those trying to block the military's advance into Tiananmen Square. Estimates of the death toll vary from several hundred to several thousand, with thousands more wounded. Many were crushed by the tanks as well. The People’s Liberation Army power washed all the blood and guts down the drain.
#44
I think that many people are unaware of the history of mental health institutions/ asylums. There was widespread use of asylums in the past two centuries (esp in europe and north america) and they were effectively used to store anyone who society deemed undesirable. So yes, people with mental illnesses, but also unmarried women, the lgbt population, ethnic and religious minorities, etc. When you look at the use of asylums/ mental institutions in europe, it echoes the history of mass incarceration in america in some respects. People in mental health institutions/ asylums were often turned into forced labourers and they were used as guinea pigs for medical experiments and drug trials. There was also the widespread use of psycho surgery (i.e. lobotomies, etc). Unfortunately, institutions are still widely used in europe today, especially in central and eastern europe. In many jurisdictions, people in institutions lose the right to manage property or make their own decisions. This means they cannot discharge themselves and their relatives assume control of their property. This has incentivised many to place their relatives is institutions in order to legally steal from them by assuming control of their property. I know that some people might think that people who need to be institutionalised cannot control their own property anyways, but one of my colleagues recently represented a man who was institutionalised by a court because he had mild depression. His mother applied to institutionalise him on the basis of his diagnosis and the judge approved it by simply signing a form after looking at his medical records- he never even met the man, and my colleague's client did not know that his mother made an application for his detention until people showed up at his house to take him away. His mother then gained control of his bank accounts. One in four people have a mental health condition. This is an extreme example, but think about how many people are vulnerable to this type of treatment if they happen to live in a jurisdiction that has this type of procedure for institutionalization. I didnt expect to go on such a ramble, but hopefully I informed a person or two about an interesting part of recent history, which isnt actually historical at all in some parts of the world. Source- I have a master's in disability and mental health law, I work as a legal representative for people in mental health facilities, and I have worked as a legal researcher for mental health law reform on the international arena (I dont want to disclose my former employer but they are a well known intergovernmental organisation).
Auntriarch 3 years ago
Until 1967 it was legal in UK to put a woman into a mental institution for having a baby out of wedlock.
WillemPenn 3 years ago
We are working on bringing that to the US. Just ask Samuel Alito.
Load More Replies... Markus Holstein 3 years ago
Back in the day, a lobotomy was even considered a modern and "mild" method as it would "calm the patient down" and make them manageable so you could keep them in your home instead of sending them to an asylum. We should all be really grateful we have modern psychiatric medication today
Yanny 3 years ago
Not to mention Electroconvulsive therapy which isn't a treatment its torture.
My O My 3 years ago
Today it is not as bad as it was. And I personally know two people it really helped get out of their depression. And yes, when the day comes that there is no medication that will help me cope anymore I'll try electroconvulsive therapy
Load More Replies... Aileen Grist 3 years ago
The Jimmy Stewart film Harvey shows a man locked up for embarrassing his sister - in his home - by talking to a 6ft white rabbit. It was a comedy but it horrified me.
Spike Matthews 3 years ago
The novel Skallagrigg by William Horwood is an excellent window into these institutions. It's not only about that, true, but it does highlight how difficult things are for disabled people. It remains my all-time favourite novel.
#45
The death of Roger Williamson, at the 1973 Dutch Grand Prix. In the 1970s era of Formula 1, the cars weren't far off from being an overpriced metal coffin on wheels, surrounded by highly flammable fuel, and during the Dutch Grand Prix, this became painfully obvious indeed. Roger Williamson crashed out after a tyre puncture, and his car came to rest upside down, with him trapped inside. He was not seriously hurt by the crash, but then the fuel tank ignited and the car burst into flames. Another driver named David Purley was behind Williamson when the crash occurred, and he saw the whole crash unfold. Purley stopped his car on the other side of the track, *ran across an active race track*, and proceeded to try and save Williamson's life. This is where the dark part of it comes in, and depending on your sensibilities, downright outrageous and disgraceful. *None* of the trackside marshals had *any* fireproof equipment, which prevented any of them from helping Purley to right the burning car; they also had a grand total of *one*, yes *one* fire extinguisher between them, which was incapable of putting out the flames. Additionally, not a *single* other driver who saw the calamity stopped to help, despite Purely's frantic waving to them, to try and get anyone to assist in saving Williamson's life. Meanwhile, Race Control decided *not* to halt the race *despite a flaming wreck being present on-track*, and it took almost 10 minutes before the fire engine arrived on-site, by which point, Williamson had asphyxiated from the smoke and flames. As soon as the fire was out, they simply put a blanket over the burned-out car and continued racing. Later on, other drivers and the race controllers would claim that they assumed Williamson's car was actually Purley's, and that there was no-one at risk at that time; something that the many hundreds of people within the grandstands would strongly disagree with, there. Yeah, Williamson burned to death right in front of a grandstand packed with spectators, who all got a front row seat to watching Williamson die before their very eyes. So there you have it; a young, promising driver slowly being burnt alive over the course of 10 minutes; a second driver desperately trying in vain to save his life; a group of marshals woefully underequipped for the job; indifferent drivers; incompetent race control and a disaster which shook Formula 1 to its core. As a result of this debacle, changes were made to try and avoid this type of event occurring again in the future. The biggest change was the mandate that marshals should wear fireproof clothing, and it was also noted that drivers were more willing to stop at accident sites to assist in rescuing fellow drivers; This was most clearly seen during the 1976 German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring Nordschleife, where Guy Edwards, Harald Ertl, Brett Lunger and Arturo Merzario all pulled over to assist in getting Niki Lauda out of his burning Ferrari, after the infamous crash that took him out of the German, Austrian and Dutch Grands Prix.
sugar-dusted-strawberries 3 years ago
i’m seeing similarities to Romain Grosjean’s crash at Abu Dhabi a few years ago. massive fire, no drivers stopped to help ( but a few asked if he was alright through radios. ) Grosjean lived, but had burns on his hands and retired from Formula 1 after.
Black Pearl 3 years ago
That's so sad. Even if it had been Purley's car, they should have stopped and been concerned. Winning a stupid race isn't worth someone's life.
Oh look, another username. 2 years ago
I've watched a Youtube video about this. It's horrible. The other racers (at the time) thought he was trying to save his own car, as they only learned of Williamson's death after the race ended. After Purley retired, he carried the burden of Williamson's death with him for the rest of his life. It was a horrible desicion on the FIA's part not to stop the race. Purley should not deserve to feel that bad after Williamson's death. It was never his fault.
#46
Mother and Baby homes here in Ireland. Most Irish people will know about this, but most people from other countries don’t. Basically, mother and baby homes (or laundries) were places run by nuns where women would be sent if they got pregnant before marriage, and would do all the laundry from people who sent their dirty clothes to the homes until they gave birth. During childbirth they would be provided with no real medical procedure, anaesthesia etc, and the nuns would often verbally abuse them during the process for being so sinful as to have sex before marriage. When the baby was born, the umbilical cord was cut and that was the last contact the mother would have with the baby. Ever. The nuns would only ever rarely let the baby live, and if they did it would be abused by the nuns it’s whole childhood for being the product of sin. But, most of the babies didn’t survive, and you would think, maybe, they would be [unalived] humanely. Nope. Dropped into a septic tank. They’ve all been shut down now obviously, but they ran until the late 70s I believe. During excavations they would find the remains of around 300 newborn babies for each home.
Monday 3 years ago
The idea of mother and baby homes are well known in most countries. But most of these would sell the babies to married couples rather than straight up murder them.
ソニャ ゲルデス 3 years ago
Ever heard about the chatolic Church being humane? If you did, then that was the exception.
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thatdisasterpanda 3 years ago
excellent point! this is what's wrong with a lot of "pro-life" arguments!
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#47
Near the end of ww2 the soviets in their invasion of Germany and Easter Europe would burn villages [take otu] civilians and r*pe innocent woman. One woman in Berlin after the occupation of the city said “how many times” to another woman in the city in reference to how many times soviet soldiers r*ped her that day. It’s so often brushed aside in history which makes sense seeing how it takes place around the same time as nazi Germany but this and the large amount of forced migration caused by the soviets are just so little talked about. Many American history teachers don’t even talk about these things because it’s a lot easier to explain to a bunch of high schoolers that there is a good side and a bad side in every war and two we fought along side the soviets in ww2. It’s something so little talked about and I think by not talking about we forget how we as humans will often justify commuting a atrocity with another atrocity.
Nubis Knight 3 years ago
"Komm, Frau" was a term widely feared as thus way the sowjet soldiers commanded the women to follow them to get raped nearby.
Java Addict 3 years ago
Giggling that they misspelled their own censoring. Assumed it was a filter that automatically replaced the words but some poor person is apparently doing it by hand.
#48
The US military's actions in the Philippine-American war (also known as the Philippine uprising). After the Spanish-American war the Philippines became a US colony and naturally the locals didn't like the idea of being handed over to another colonial power, especially when they had previously been slated for independence after the war like Cuba. The war lasted from 1899-1905 and the US won with minimal losses against scattered local resistance. However this was ultimately achieved because the US [took out] upwards of 1.4 million civilians in the Philippines over the course of the war in order to establish control by force and terror. They burned down and massacred entire towns and funnelled thousands upon thousands of people into concentration camps where many more died from disease or being murdered by soldiers in terrible conditions. More Philippine civilians were [unalived] in the war than the US has lost in all its wars combined. Another 1.6 million would be [unalived] by the time the Philippines became independent in 1946. While not as deadly as the Bengal famine or Belgian Congo, the brutality on display, which was then covered up, ignored, or later "justified", is horrifying.
#49
Cannibalism at Ma'arrat al-Nu'man.
In 1098 crusaders occupied the city, massacred 8000 people and then ate their dead bodies.
It is well documented in christian sources because they were not ashamed of what they did.
Eva Sawyer 3 years ago
Let's be clear about what happened here - The crusaders had first laid siege to Antioch and then found themselves without adequate stores of food - which lasted through the winter months. By the time they laid siege on Ma'narrat al Mu'man many of them were malnourished and starving. They had hoped that their siege would yield food for the crusaders, and when it was done there was hardly any food to be found (there had been famines in the region). It wasn't that they said "hey, let's kill 8000 and eat them" it was a matter of being starved and unfortunately seeing the dead as the only acceptable source to be found.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago (edited)
To be clear: the Christian sources were not so ashamed as to cover it up. But the implied brazenness is misleading: "I shudder to tell that many of our people, harassed by the madness of excessive hunger,..." (Fulchres of Chartres)
Eva Sawyer 3 years ago
the crusaders had been starving since their siege on Antioch just before the winter months. They were malnourished and starving to death when the crusaders came up on this city. They had hoped that by laying siege they would be able to get food - not realizing that the region had been struggling with famine and that there was nowhere near enough food. Sadly they looked at what was available - much like people in survival situations may be forced into cannabilism. They didn't do it because god commanded them, or they thought it was a cool thing to do - they were forced into it by starvation
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#50
The bombing of Dresden in 1945. I mean, you could argue the dark event at play was WW2, but I find this bombing especially dark. On the evening of the 14th of February 1945, the RAF Bomber Command flew over the city center, dropping 1477 tons of high explosive bombs, and another 1181 tons of incendiary bombs. The resulting firestorm [unalived] thousands of civilians, to this day nobody knows exactly how many, death tolls range from 20,000 to 25,000. The witness accounts are what make this especially harrowing. >!It is not possible to describe! Explosion after explosion. It was beyond belief, worse than the blackest nightmare. So many people were horribly burnt and injured. It became more and more difficult to breathe. It was dark and all of us tried to leave this cellar with inconceivable panic. Dead and dying people were trampled upon, luggage was left or snatched up out of our hands by rescuers. The basket with our twins covered with wet cloths was snatched up out of my mother's hands and we were pushed upstairs by the people behind us. We saw the burning street, the falling ruins and the terrible firestorm. My mother covered us with wet blankets and coats she found in a water tub.!< >!We saw terrible things: cremated adults shrunk to the size of small children, pieces of arms and legs, dead people, whole families burnt to death, burning people ran to and fro, burnt coaches filled with civilian refugees, dead rescuers and soldiers, many were calling and looking for their children and families, and fire everywhere, everywhere fire, and all the time the hot wind of the firestorm threw people back into the burning houses they were trying to escape from.!< >!I cannot forget these terrible details. I can never forget them.!< — Lothar Metzger >!To my left I suddenly see a woman. I can see her to this day and shall never forget it. She carries a bundle in her arms. It is a baby. She runs, she falls, and the child flies in an arc into the fire.!< >!Suddenly, I saw people again, right in front of me. They scream and gesticulate with their hands, and then—to my utter horror and amazement—I see how one after the other they simply seem to let themselves drop to the ground. (Today I know that these unfortunate people were the victims of lack of oxygen.) They fainted and then burnt to cinders.!< >!Insane fear grips me and from then on I repeat one simple sentence to myself continuously: "I don't want to burn to death". I do not know how many people I fell over. I know only one thing: that I must not burn.!< — Margaret Freyer Over 90% of the city center was destroyed. Air raid shelters were found crammed with burned bodies.
Markus Holstein 3 years ago
Many of the bombs dropped on German cities had delayed detonators to get those people who would come out to check trough the rubble once the initial bombing was over. The problem is those detonators didn't work 100% reliably, therefore hundreds of thousands of un-detonated bombs remain hidden in the ground even today. It is not unusual that you get a bomb alert in Berlin every couple of months. It's been estimated that it will take thousands of years to dispose of all remaining WWII bombs.
#51
Not so much an event, but rather, a tool that was used on multiple occasions: early thermal weapons. Most people think of burning oil, but boiling water, hot sands, boiling animal fat, and basically any other liquid that could he heated up to the point of scalding skin. They were primitive, effective, and easy to get, and a mainstay of siege warfare for centuries. These weapons were not designed to [take out] or be lit on fire. That's Hollywood b******t. No, early thermal weapons were dumped on people merely to disable them by causing incredible pain, not [unalive] them. If they did die, great, but that wasn't the goal. Heated sand was particularly terrible, as it could get into the gaps in armor and cook your skin directly while heating up your armor, making its removal virtually impossible without inflicting further burns. If you were wearing a suit of armor and got hit full on by a bucket of heated sand, you were in for a very, very long and miserable death. We like to think our ancestors quaint and naive, but they had a brand of cruel cleverness that has not died out.
Yanny 3 years ago
Its approximately the era of Monty Python and the Holy Grail I think.
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IDK_Something 3 years ago
We can in comments, but unfortunately they will lose revenue if they use certain words. The whole "unalive(d)" thing in this article is pretty unbearable, though 😅
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#52
Highland clearances - thousands of Scots were forcibly evicted from their homes, many were forcibly exported to Canada, the US or Australia, many who refused were massacred with whole villages of women & children r*ped, many died of starvation on the forced marches or from famine, all so they could farm sheep.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
Just learned this: So many highland tenants joined the military service as a way of seeking employment, that these clearances are how "Highlander" became associated with warriors. Even the New York Yankees were originally known as the Highlanders.
Anne Reid 3 years ago
They were called the Highlanders because they played at Hilltop Park, which was on the highest point in Manhattan.
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The US has a history of abusing Puerto Rico— they put a gag law out on our anthem and flag, massacred a peaceful holiday parade what wasn’t even political in nature (Ponce massacre) They also bombed the town of jayuya, at one point used our women to test a birth control pill (something like 1/3 of them were sterilized), and held the independence leader in a cell where he was subjected to radiation poisoning.
Crow (he/they) 3 years ago
Unrelated but is your icon the omnisexual flag?
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DuPont knowingly poisoning the world with “forever chemicals”. Watch the 2019 movie called Dark Waters. F****d up.
WillemPenn 3 years ago
Oh we have an unimaginably gargantuan secret DDT toxic dump site just off the coast of Los Angeles and it has gotten hardly any press. It is so terribly effed.
Marykay Klim 3 years ago
well, let's get out some Round Up and see how much more damage we can do!
#55
The Frank Slide, Alberta Canada. A huge chunk of mountain fell off and covered an entire town. [taking out] everyone but a baby and a cat apparently.
#56
The Hillsborough Disaster in the UK. During the FA Cup final in 1989, the police opened up too many entrances and negated crowd control. Basically the masses of people started pushing forwards and people started to get crushed alive pressed against the barriers to the football pitch. About 100 people died, around 800 injured, a real tragedy and example of the incompetence of law enforcement, thats barely talked about.
Scagsy 3 years ago
Stadium police chief, David Dukenfield, should pay for his decisions on that day. He and the South Yorkshire Police have blood on their hands. The man was barely qualified for his role and there are rumours that he only reached that level due to his connections to the Freemasons. And the lies that were told by him and his cronies were despicable. Absolutely despicable. He won't need a coat, where he's going.
Terence McGuire 3 years ago
Worse still the fans were blamed, the S*n newspaper printer horrible misleading lies that contributed to this injustice. The fight for justice continues to this day. JFT97! YNWA
hello Wendy 2 years ago
What you can't say the word sun now? Why tf was that censored?? 🤣
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In the early 80's, Bayer knowingly sold millions of dollars worth of HIV and hepatitis tainted medications to Asia and Latin America. These countries didn't have laws to prevent the proliferation of tainted drugs. Thousands of people died as a result. It was hardly mentioned on any news platforms.
Monday 3 years ago
Blood products, not medications. They sold tainted blood to be used for transfusions.
LJ Robinson 3 years ago
The Red Cross knew about it as well. Bayer is a regular sponsor of the Red Cross. Shame on both their houses.
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and Bayer owns Round Up, toxic chemical for weed killing. They just settled a multi--million $ lawsuit, but won't even post labels on their product. So yeah bayer for keeping w/ that "winning track record!"
Eva Sawyer 3 years ago
Bayer is a pretty c**p company so this wasn't a surprise.... Want to see how awful they have been in just the last few years? Check out any articles on Essure!
#58
This may be hard for some people to read but you can fact check. The mass exodus/Genocide of Kashmiri Hindus from Kashmir in India. One fine night in Jan 1990, all the mosques in Kashmir announced that all Hindus need to either flee to other parts of India, die or convert to Islam. If you had to flee you had to leave your women and girls behind. The next morning, those who did not flee and did not convert were ruthlessly [unalived], their women r*ped, their houses burnt. The most astonishing fact was that there were radicals too but a lot of them were the same people who these Kashmiri Hindus grew up with, played with, were friends with. This is not publicised because our “Pseudo-Liberal” historians don’t want most of us to know. Hindus in Kashmir has reduced from 600,000 to a mere 2,000.
Lucifer 3 years ago
1.) Vivek Agnihotri is massive bigot & a big supporter of Modi's Hindutva terrorism 2.) There is a lot more history than what was shown in the movie (Kashmir Files) 3.) He chose very specific facts to fit the narrative 4.) If you really want to know how far the back the conflict goes, read more about what happened during the partition. 5.) Agnihotri is still massive bigot
Lothar Ohr 3 years ago
Explains why Hindus are killing and oppressing Moslems in India at the moment. There is a long history of hatred here
Queen fhk 3 years ago
The problem with the Muslims and Hindus is that we can't justify who's wrong and right.... they have a crazy history conflicts.
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Laura Edwards 3 years ago
I can't possibly learn every historical event that occurred in the history of the world. I have a pretty good grasp, but gee whiz.
Nadège Vallet 3 years ago
I highly recommend you read Freedom at midnight by Lapierre and Collins (and every other historical account they've made). It is about the independence of India and has a section dedicated to this event and what led to it. On the Wikipedia page there is a summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_at_Midnight
#59
The Barbary Slave Trade isn't a well known even though it lasted for around 200 years. "Davis estimates that slave traders from Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli alone enslaved 1 million to 1.25 million Europeans in North Africa, from the beginning of the 16th century to the middle of the 18th (these numbers do not include the European people who were enslaved by Morocco and by other raiders and traders of the Mediterranean Sea coast)."
Jonny Man 3 years ago
A lot of violence in Europe by POC against White people, particularly women, bears the DNA of the mentality that produced this atrocity. 21st century and European people are still viewed as fair game, "sluts" and "whores" and "naked harlots" that deserve it both for being infidels and for being of an enemy race.
#60
The Hangang Bridge Bombing during the Korean War. The South Korean Army decided to destroy the bridge in Seoul to stop the North Korean Army's advance, but they didn't let civilians know they were going to detonate. Thousands of South Korean civilians were on the bridge fleeing Seoul at the time, and an unknown number of people were [unalived] when the bridge was destroyed. The South Korean government claims that less than 1,000 civilians died, but it seems unlikely that the true number was that low.
#61
The first Bloody Sunday in Ireland. 20th November 1920. British troops marched into a Dublin - Tipperary match and opened fire on the crowd and the players. 14 [unalived], including 2 children, and 2 wounded. Britain does it’s best to cover up the attack but it won’t be forgotten.
#62
I control f'd to see if anyone else posted, apologies if someone has, but the Peshtigo Fire. It was the deadliest wildfire in American history, in a small town in Wisconsin that [unalived] between 1,500 and 2,500 people. It occurred the same day as the Great Chicago Fire, the Great Michigan Fire, and the Port Huron fire (October 8th, 1871; that was a bad day for the Midwest), outshined by the Chicago one, but much deadlier and more devastating. It was so bad, it jumped over a bridge, and burned down both sides of the town, it also made a fire tornado. Many people who tried to escape it by jumping in the river died from hypothermia. There's more info and witness testimony [here](http://www.peshtigofiremuseum.com/fire/). Today, it's a quiet little community, and the lake where so many people died is stunning to look at. My friends and I have visited Peshtigo a few times to pay our respects, at the lake and at the cemetery. There's also a really good restaurant there too. If you're in the Green Bay area, it's only about a 40 minute drive I think, and it's definitely worth checking out. A few years ago, and I can't find the source now, so not totally sure how true it is, but one of the Michigan towns who helped send lumber to rebuild the town, over logged so much to send wood to help Peshtigo, that their town was eventually overtaken by the sands of Lake Michigan and they became a ghost town.
#63
The Umfakaan, (The cleansing!), when the Zulu tribe of South Africa adopted a policy of ‘Join us or die’ in the early 1800’s. Entire tribes were massacred by Shaka’s Impi, (Warriors). Millions died or were displaced during the height of the Zulu empire
#64
On a gulag in an island in the heart of Siberia during the days of stalin, they had to resort to cannibalism due to the fact that, well, it was in the middle of Siberia, and also it was an island I the middle of a river in the middle of nowhere. Just goes to show why stalin was about as bad as, if not worse than, Hitler.
Lothar Ohr 3 years ago
Why is Hitler also portrayed as worse than Stalin? Is it OK cause Stalin did it to his own people?
Eva Sawyer 3 years ago
or Mao? They don't even KNOW how many millions he killed...
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#65
Im not sure if this is considered "dark" but I would say the battles of world war 1. World war 1 often gets overlooked because it was mostly a stalemate for 4 years that was all an attritional meat grinder and it was not as "flashy" as WW2. Everyone knows the "main characters" of World War 2, could basically name leaders and certain generals without a second thought and probably all the major battles. But world war 1, people often go "ummm idk". The soldiers in world war 1 went through absolute hell. Terrible conditions and terrible strategy. Hundreds of thousands of men lost over a small piece of land that would just get retaken in another month or so. Millions died in world war 1 and most people don't even give them a thought compared to the guys who fought WW2. Also with WW2, everyone forgets that China was a major combatant and lost so many lives fighting the Japanese. The Chinese side of the War is often overlooked unless your chinese basically, which is a shame considering they played a major part in helping defeat the Japanese. I think this gets overlooked due to cold war relations shortly after the War.
Markus Holstein 3 years ago
The German high command bluntly referred to those battles as "material battles", that is, battles that would be lost by whatever site ran out of "human material" first
#66
Prior to expansion of technology (telephone/telegraph), and centralized police and law enforcement in rural parts of the US, you could easily make a livable wage as a hired assassin. It was common for multiple people to sign up and pledge their services to wealthy or powerful in rural areas. Sometimes entire families would provide services on behalf of corrupt politicians, wealthy aspiring industrialists, or regional syndicates associated with factions in larger cities. Assassins / Mercenaries were used as enforcers in the hollows, bodyguards, or muscle as a show of force whenever they wanted to intimidate the populace. In the days before mobs and the quintessential "mobster" era, gang wars were being waged across the rural parts of the US. [An ancestor of mine, "Bad Tom" Smith, was a famous hired assassin / mercenary for a wealthy industrialist in southeast Kentucky who came under odds of a fellow local industrialist who gained the backing of the populace in their feud in the late 1800s.] For example of how devastating this was, officially, just over 20 deaths were attributed to this backwoods feud. The largest city near where all this took place only had a population of 100 people at the time.
#67
Like most atrocities that happened in American history, the California Genocide was never taught in school. It’s about the [taking out] of native Indians during the gold rush in California. I didn’t learn about it until after college. And Governor Newsome finally made some type of apology maybe last year or the year before.
#68
The enormous wave of suicides in the final weeks of the Nazi regime in Germany. Thousands upon thousands of Nazi officials and Germans [unalived] themselves and sometimes their entire family out of fear that the Allies would commit atrocities against them. The Wikipedia for this topic estimates that 7,000+ people [unalived] themselves in Berlin alone, while saying this is an under representation when considering the chaos in Germany at the time. I dunno, even though these people sucked, it’s so strange to ponder the idea of thousands upon thousands of your countries leaders all [unaliving] themselves.
Karen B 3 years ago
Why did the German people suck more than many others people? Many "German" ideas, weren't particularly German. But rather the ideas at the time. The people in power ofcourse ordered these atrocities. Germany lost the war and the German people suffered atrocities, not the least by Russia. Who it seems haven't gotten any further since the war, and kept up camps. German refugees in Denmark where refused help by doctors and kids in particular, even newborns, died well after they should be in safety. No excuse for what the Nazis did but the German people where wictims aswell.
#69
The Native American slave trade. In early stages of colonialism in North America European powers had a very limited presence on the continent and relied on Indian allies for security and trade. A lot of Native American tribes had a system of hostage taking from neighboring groups and they would usually be adopted into the tribe. However, European traders would often trade finished goods and guns in exchange for slaves. This created a feedback loop where tribes would raid one another for slaves, trade them for guns, and then the tribes without guns would join in to keep up with their rivals in an arms race. This had a huge impact on Native populations alongside disease.
Jonny Man 3 years ago
Every invasion of one people by another in history is rife with such heinous abuses. Colonialism is remembered as particularly brutal because only because it was well-documented, but no place wherein one group displaced another has ever done so peacefully nor kindly.
Eva Sawyer 3 years ago
Unfortunately there is virtually no civilization since the dawn of time that has not had some form of enslavement
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so many ppl tend to forget that first nation, mesoamerican nations, the middle east, asia and areas of africa had roaring slave-trades long before the dutch started the most modern era of it concerning europe and the new world territories. not condoning jack s**t just pointing out the topic runs deep and no one f*****g talks about pre-east india co. era colonialism or slavery nor the current indentured servitude and trafficking that goes on in so many places.
#70
Not as dark as some other ones on this thread, but I recall learning about a story from WWII: When the US invaded the island Japanese of Iwo Jima (I’d assume this happened on mainland Japan as well), the Japanese were obviously scared and trying to find any way to fight of the Americans. Some kids were pulled out of school and given clay grenades. The people giving them out would give a child one or two. The obvious purpose was to [take out] the invading Americans. However, when the kids were given two grenades they were told, “Take one and use it to [unalive] an American. Take the other and use it to [unalive] yourself”. Not to mention, these grenades were made out of clay so some kids may have even died without doing anything with the grenades.
#71
Everyone thinks of Chernobyl when they think of major industrial disasters in the modern era, but the disaster at was two years prior to Chernobyl and much, much worse. Many times worse. If you want to go into a deep dive on how this happened, Well, There's your Problem has an [excellent two-part podcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCKVreNqMjI) on the engineering failures behind it and the true extent of the aftermath.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
The greatest disaster of Chernobyl was the paranoia it instilled. Tens of thousands of abortions were obtained, for instance, by women needlessly worried that their exposure to low levels of radiation from 1,000 km or more away would mean they would give birth to babies with absurd birth defects. In reality, only 31 people died at Chernobyl, and cancer rates in the surrounding area were actually suppressed by radiation "inocculation." (It turns out exposure to radiation can trigger an adaptive response by the body to limit mutations.)
A_Reddit_User 3 years ago
I watched the whole hour and a half of the podcast now I want you to watch the entire pokemon series on netflix.
#72
Mountain Meadows Massacre. In September of 1857 a group of Paiutes and Mormons dressed as Paiutes raided the Baker-Fancher party traveling through Utah to California. The people in the wagon train figured out the Mormons involvement. The Mormons and US were on the brink of war with each other. Fearing that word of their involvement would get back to the US Army, the Mormons massacred the party (100-200 people in the party). They auctioned off the goods and took in the 17 surviving young children. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-aftermath-of-mountain-meadows-110735627/
#73
Have you heard of Tarrare? He was born with a stupidly rare eating disorder and basically ate everything he found get his hands on including a cadaver and finally hit rock bottom when he ate a baby whole...
Alias Delfs 3 years ago
Also eat a cat (sorry fur baby lovers)and most of the time literal garbage. When he died they could not preform an autopsy because his insides smelled so putrid
#74
Mk Ultra experiments. CIA in the 1950’s ran large scale experiments on its own people trying to achieve mind control over them. They tried many methods, including electroshock therapy, but primarily focused on psychedelic drugs. One of the people they experimented on likely went on to become the UNABomber.
#75
The use of honey as a death sentence, used in the middle ages. They would cover you with honey and wait for the insects to [take you out] while you're tied up. Takes up to weeks for the person to die.
#76
The Colfax Courthouse Massacre, basically the 1872 Governor's election in Louisiana was contested. Mainly because white, ex-confederates were beating black people up at the polls. The two sides both declared victory and both parties began installing their office holders across the state. In Colfax, LA both parties brought in their own sheriffs and judges. The Democrats had allied themselves with ex-Confederates and the Republicans had installed a federal militia mostly made up of black ex-Union soldiers. Long story short the outnumbered black population of Colfax took refuge in the courthouse. The white mob, full of ex-Confederates laid siege to the courthouse. The "Battle of Colfax" lasted most of the afternoon with the Confederates victorious. They set fire to the courthouse to flush the black people inside out. They rounded them up and executed about 150 of them.
#77
Bangladesh 1971 Genocide by Pakistan during the independence war, Up to 3 million people were [unalived]. Majority Pakistanis say only 26,000 people were [unalived] or outright deny it.
Lucifer 3 years ago (edited)
When the British left India they partioned it in such a way that the conflict they created would be there long after they are gone. So they divided the country Pakistan, India & East Pakistan. The distance between Pakistan & East Pakistan(Same country) was about 2000km (1250 miles). During the 1971 unrest the PM of India, Indira Gandhi intervened to separate East Pakistan which later came to be known as Bangladesh.
#78
The British did the same to the South African Boere in the second boer war as the Germans did to the Jews.
Kristie French 3 years ago (edited)
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/south-african-concentration-camps Just because the Brits didn’t actively kill the vast majority of the internees they are just as responsible for the loss of life. Forcing that many people into tight quarters with minimal food, sanitation and lackluster medical care will ALWAYS, and HAS ALWAYS been been deadly. Those camps were “organized” mass killings. Negligence does absolve one of guilt!
ADHORTATOR 3 years ago
No they did not. There were concentration camps, but no organised mass killing
CozyPanda 3 years ago (edited)
it wasn't exactly the same but hundreds of people dies in these camps
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#79
Muslim invasions in the Indian subcontinent [unalived] an estimated 600 million Hindus from ~700 AD till the fall of the Moghal dynasty in the 18th century.
Lucifer 3 years ago
Mughals (Uzbeks) were there for about approximately 250 years.(1526-1761) That is till the British took over. The Muslim invasion started most notably with Turks(Ghazni) They destroyed universities, temples (specifically ones that had goddesses), looted much of the natural resources and wealth. Pretty much what the British did, but much earlier. The country had been under almost a constant loot since 700 AD - 1940s
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
Most of my History syllabus this year was about muslim rulers conquering us and ruling from the throne of Delhi
#80
**Srebrenica massacre** Slaying of more than 7,000 Bošnjak (Bosnian Muslim) boys and men, perpetrated by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica, a town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in July 1995. In addition to the [unalivings], more than 20,000 civilians were expelled from the area—a process known as ethnic cleansing. The massacre, which was the worst episode of mass murder within Europe since WW2, helped galvanize the West to press for a cease-fire that ended three years of warfare on Bosnia’s territory. However, it left deep emotional scars on survivors and created enduring obstacles to political reconciliation among Bosnia’s ethnic groups.
CozyPanda 3 years ago
Yes but the European Council rarely wants to admit the wrongs that were done by people they deem as right..especiallywhen religion or race is involved..if the Bosnians had done the same it would be much more publicised...
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The expulsion of the Germans from basically everywhere not-Germany after WWII. Estimates range from about 500,000-2,500,000 people were [unalived] as a result, and much, much more who were expulsed from their homes. It tends to be a very touchy subject because it sounds like you're defending Germany when you bring the subject up. I always just think of it as an extension of the Holocaust and put the blame squarely on the German government, even if it was the surrounding nations that did this after the war. My mother's family were Silesian refugees from the expulsion, my grandmother had some absolute horror stories about what went on.
#82
A bit of local history from my hometown. I lived in central Minnesota, in an area that used to have a high population of Native Americans, and an area that really doesn’t have any historical significance. I found records from about 100 years ago detailing the conflicts the townspeople had with the Dakota in the area. There were countless stories that I can’t remember, but this one story sticks out in particular to me. There were these 2 brothers that lived in this little pre-town at the time. One brother was supposedly [unalived] by the Dakota during one of their night raids. The records stated that no one knew for sure what happened to his brother. However, all of a sudden the brother who was still alive would start to disappear every night. He would come back later with tally marks on the stock of his gun. This record ended with it saying that no one ever asked him about those marks and he never talked about it, but by the time he was done there were 20+ marks on his gun. (I apologize for the lack of detail as it has been years since I’ve seen these records) I remember reading this with my mom when I was like 10 years old and it sent chills up my spine. How could this have happened on the same land that my family has called home for the last 50 years? Really hit home for me, literally and figuratively.
Crow (he/they) 3 years ago
If you're actually 10 you really shouldn't be on social media, much less looking at something like this.
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The Tet Offensive. This was during the Vietnam war. If I remember correctly from high school history class, the USA went from village to village, and they claimed the lives of many, many innocent women & children by essentially lining them up and executing them one by one.
PandaRave 3 years ago (edited)
I’m trying to think of a massacre. What was it the Mai Lai massacre? (Just googled it, I got it first try. I’m a great historian 😎.) Anyway yeah that was horrible. And of course, there were pedophiles. Every single horrific historical tragedy has pedophiles somehow! This really is the American Rape of Nanking. But the good thing is that this really made people in America more angry that the war was still going after the cover up was exposed.
Brenda 3 years ago (edited)
There are also stories about the North giving children guns, grenades, wiring them with bombs etc. They died trying to kill the South, Americans & whoever else was involved. Manywere young, elementary school age & didn't understand things. My uncle has horror stories about it. The "advisors" allowed many South allied soldiers to do unspeakable acts because "war". Torture, rape, destroying entire villages because they "might" harbor enemy soldiers (especially close to the border" who were family or conscripted by the North & sent South. Indiscriminately killing w/o checking fact or fiction. Both sides were guilty. The Korean war,, roo (police action my a*s) but we learned nothing, I guess. War has death. But involving kids, inflicting needless harm, killing innocents/civilians w/ no proof of wrongdoing is unacceptable. PERIOD! There should be consequences. Yet humanity doesn't learn 😕
Load More Replies... Ploploplop 3 years ago
The Tet Offensive was an attack on the South by the North on Christmas.
#84
During WW2 the Japanese actually invaded the tip of Alaska. Very few people new about because the government kept it secret to keep people from panicing, it's actually a pretty interesting story
Vicki Doggurl 3 years ago
Alaska and Oregon got bombed by the Japanese. The Balloon bombs in southern Oregon killed some kids at a church picnic. The Balloons were filled with explosive gas and sent over by the Japanese and just so happened to land at this little town by Klamath Falls, Oregon, just 50 miles from the CA border. Crazy! My grandmother was a teen living in Unalaska, Alaska when they got shipped down or OR bc of the Japanese. Now I live in Klamath Falls.
Brenda 3 years ago
There were rumors that the Germans landed a submarine along the coast of Maine. It was never confirmed though. All coastal areas had watched for just that reason
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Maggie Smith 2 years ago
My mom lived in St Augustin, Florida during WWll. She said German submarines were seen off the coast of St Augustine, causing the black-out of all lights at night. She was there, she saw it.
#85
Derby's dose. Slave owners and overseers were so deprived this was deemed an acceptable punishment. When you think about it they couldn't use death as a means of torture as that would cost them money, so they improvised. And the UK only finished paying the compensation to the slave owners in 2015 for taking the slaves and freeing them. That's right everyone, if you were paying UK tax before 2015 you were still paying off the slave owners!
Kiss Army 3 years ago
Derby’s Dose was a form of torture used in Jamaica to punish slaves who attempted to escape or committed other offenses like stealing food. The punishment was invented by slave overseer Thomas Thistlewood, and was named after the slave, Derby, who was made to undergo this punishment when he was caught eating young sugar cane stalks in the field on May 25, 1756. According to Malcolm Gladwell in his 2008 book Outliers, “The runaway would be beaten, and salt pickle, lime juice, and bird pepper would be rubbed into his or her open wounds. Another slave would defecate into the mouth of the miscreant, who would then be gagged for four to five hours.”
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People may know about the Great Depression, but not many people know that it was so bad for certain people that they had no choice but to sell their own children. I could have never imagined that happening in the United States of America.
Another note: two UCLA Anderson School of Business professors published a paper claiming that Franklin Delano Roosevelt's economic policies—notably the New Deal—were so bad, they extended the Great Depression by 7 years. [https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/professors-big-intellectual-risk-grabs-eyeballs-years-later](https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/professors-big-intellectual-risk-grabs-eyeballs-years-later)
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Zophra 3 years ago
IF BP has to do this much editing, perhaps the article isn't worth posting? Seriously, this is a bizarre amount.
mmph25 3 years ago
The unbelievable censoring is out of control. I never want to read the word unalived ever again.
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Queen fhk 3 years ago
Let me remind you of what type of cruelty that Will be a dark history for the younger generation to come. Well this article has forgotten the atrocities committed by Israeli occupation, killing of Muslims in Al aqsa mosque , About 1,500 Palestinian lost their homes due to an Israeli court rule . How many children were killed in Gaza bombings . Yet how publicly USA came out to support Israel, yet somewhat hypocritically came out to support Ukraine (I also support Ukraine because invasion and killing of lives cannot be justified in any manner). Oh and yet Jews haven't learn from the Holocaust and inflicting such harm on others*bonus fact *state of Israel was formed in 1948. Seems like humanity it's quite the impossible.
CozyPanda 3 years ago
To be fair most Israeli people are against it...especially the proper Jews l. The zionists are the ones who mainly in power
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Little Wonder 3 years ago
Yanno, i get that sponsors don't want their adverts next to words like "killed" or "suicide" but maybe BP just shouldn't run these sorts of articles because honestly it's kind of offensive to downplay these terrible stories with silly words like "unalived".
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
BP should not accept this kind of bullsh!t - any idiot company that cannot understand basic language is not worth the effort. As soon as people stop reading BP completely because they are sick and tired of reading [unalived] and the like, nobody will see their ads anyway...
Load More Replies... Ray Martin 3 years ago
I'm done with the absurd censorship on this site, which is far more obscene than any word they're censoring. To use "unalived", which is not even a word, instead of kill is disgusting. So, to the editors and owners of this ridiculous operation, I say a hearty "fück you", because I'm so done with your bullsh!t that I'm about to delete my account - assuming I can figure out how to do it.
JMC5003 3 years ago
Totally off topic, but your name is so unique... My grandfather was Fay Martin and he had a twin named Ray Martin. Fay died in 1984 at around 90 some years old, had been estranged from Ray since I was a child (mid 1960's). Sound familiar? : ] I'd love to find out what happened between them, although I strongly suspect it was religious differences. Sigh...
Load More Replies... Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
Back in the 70’s India experienced its darkest time during what was known as “The Emergency period”. Many politicians were arrested and several human rights were violated. There was a mass sterilization done by the prime minister’s son. Freedom of press was gone and multiple elections were suspended. The prime minister was accused of cheating during the elections in court but she denied it. Her assasination was very constroversial. India almost turned into a dictatorship because of all this
Catherine Spencer-Mills 3 years ago
"Unalived" = killed, "passed away" = dying, "passed" = dead. I down checked, unliked, expressed my opinion in a negative fashion because of these ridiculous edits. The actual information and stories are interesting, but the editing is off putting to say the least. Grow up.
Scarlett 3 years ago
I’m surprised no one mentioned the Battle of Osoweic. It was a battle in WWI where a group of Russian soldiers were severely outnumbered by the Germans. The Germans used poison gas on the Russians, who didn’t have protective gear, and then advanced on the fortress. However approximately 100 Russians survived and charged the Germans. The Germans were so taken aback by their zombie like appearance that they fled. Sabaton wrote a song about it; Attack of the Dead Men.
Justin Arnold 3 years ago
Yet another post that won't load on Android. Will this app ever get fixed?
Zedrapazia 3 years ago
So I'm not the only one with that issue? Thank you, i thought my phone was broken somehow
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Elvia Szymanski 3 years ago
Are the words “dead”, “rape”, “died” and “suicide” forbidden now? Unalived is the most ridiculous censorship I’ve ever read
Zophra 3 years ago
IF BP has to do this much editing, perhaps the article isn't worth posting? Seriously, this is a bizarre amount.
mmph25 3 years ago
The unbelievable censoring is out of control. I never want to read the word unalived ever again.
Load More Replies... Queen fhk 3 years ago
Let me remind you of what type of cruelty that Will be a dark history for the younger generation to come. Well this article has forgotten the atrocities committed by Israeli occupation, killing of Muslims in Al aqsa mosque , About 1,500 Palestinian lost their homes due to an Israeli court rule . How many children were killed in Gaza bombings . Yet how publicly USA came out to support Israel, yet somewhat hypocritically came out to support Ukraine (I also support Ukraine because invasion and killing of lives cannot be justified in any manner). Oh and yet Jews haven't learn from the Holocaust and inflicting such harm on others*bonus fact *state of Israel was formed in 1948. Seems like humanity it's quite the impossible.
CozyPanda 3 years ago
To be fair most Israeli people are against it...especially the proper Jews l. The zionists are the ones who mainly in power
Load More Replies... Little Wonder 3 years ago
Yanno, i get that sponsors don't want their adverts next to words like "killed" or "suicide" but maybe BP just shouldn't run these sorts of articles because honestly it's kind of offensive to downplay these terrible stories with silly words like "unalived".
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
BP should not accept this kind of bullsh!t - any idiot company that cannot understand basic language is not worth the effort. As soon as people stop reading BP completely because they are sick and tired of reading [unalived] and the like, nobody will see their ads anyway...
Load More Replies... Ray Martin 3 years ago
I'm done with the absurd censorship on this site, which is far more obscene than any word they're censoring. To use "unalived", which is not even a word, instead of kill is disgusting. So, to the editors and owners of this ridiculous operation, I say a hearty "fück you", because I'm so done with your bullsh!t that I'm about to delete my account - assuming I can figure out how to do it.
JMC5003 3 years ago
Totally off topic, but your name is so unique... My grandfather was Fay Martin and he had a twin named Ray Martin. Fay died in 1984 at around 90 some years old, had been estranged from Ray since I was a child (mid 1960's). Sound familiar? : ] I'd love to find out what happened between them, although I strongly suspect it was religious differences. Sigh...
Load More Replies... Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
Back in the 70’s India experienced its darkest time during what was known as “The Emergency period”. Many politicians were arrested and several human rights were violated. There was a mass sterilization done by the prime minister’s son. Freedom of press was gone and multiple elections were suspended. The prime minister was accused of cheating during the elections in court but she denied it. Her assasination was very constroversial. India almost turned into a dictatorship because of all this
Catherine Spencer-Mills 3 years ago
"Unalived" = killed, "passed away" = dying, "passed" = dead. I down checked, unliked, expressed my opinion in a negative fashion because of these ridiculous edits. The actual information and stories are interesting, but the editing is off putting to say the least. Grow up.
Scarlett 3 years ago
I’m surprised no one mentioned the Battle of Osoweic. It was a battle in WWI where a group of Russian soldiers were severely outnumbered by the Germans. The Germans used poison gas on the Russians, who didn’t have protective gear, and then advanced on the fortress. However approximately 100 Russians survived and charged the Germans. The Germans were so taken aback by their zombie like appearance that they fled. Sabaton wrote a song about it; Attack of the Dead Men.
Justin Arnold 3 years ago
Yet another post that won't load on Android. Will this app ever get fixed?
Zedrapazia 3 years ago
So I'm not the only one with that issue? Thank you, i thought my phone was broken somehow
Load More Replies... Elvia Szymanski 3 years ago
Are the words “dead”, “rape”, “died” and “suicide” forbidden now? Unalived is the most ridiculous censorship I’ve ever read
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