30 Horrifying Historical Facts That Few People Know About

We are living in scary times: media is complicit and conciliatory instead of adversarial, plucking activists and deporting, disappearing people into prisons. It ain’t good

First they're trying to k**l or arrest all the trans people, today they're going after kids, next are us gays, then they're coming for women and non-conservative men.

Well Trumps ICE goons just sent at least 2 if not many many more legitimate asylum seekers to El Salvador under the guise of being Venezualan gang members. The 2 reported thus far are an LGBTQ persecuted trans and a soccer player who had a Rio Madrid tattoo which ICE claimed was a gang tattoo. None of those collected had any due process, their names and the circumstances of their arrests are not available, none have been allowed any legal representation. Only ICE report that they are gang members was used to deport them and those reports, including the names of the reported are not even available for review by any party. EL Salvador has made no investigation into the accuracy of the claims against any of these men, they just accepted them off the plane at face value, shaved their heads and threw them into their over crowded prison system with no known representation or opportunity to appeal. Again, nobody knows their names. Trump has claimed war powers acts to do this.

They are already here. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney?fbclid=IwY2xjawJIl3tleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHanGh__Dqr1RaCFFU2vNn4ARLHGUw6KtGrpRppYr4lAJJLSBwiOtvzzbLw_aem_ynrghimhu4HqyO9QL68gSQ

What a stupid lib/tard dem statement - to compare a Rep/Conservative to a Democrate socialist shows you KNOW NOTHING!!!

It's already in the works.

Oh pul-eez.

Umm Trump isn't trying to take away women's right to vote. Geez.

Somehow, no matter how much libs hate Trump I doubt if he will get women denied the right to vote

if y'all really think it's that bad then why aren't you doing stuff? You act like it's 1930 Germany and yet all you do is b***h about it online.

This is a great way to put it I'd never really considered before, but as an American, it makes sense. We have a decent amount of resources, so we don't worry about fighting another country for them too much, (sorry to Hawai'i ) and the nearest country to where I live is probably over a day's drive away, so we don't worry about our neighbors or their wars. We could still stand to be a little less stupid though, lol

So much happens here you can spend hours on the news and never leave the US.

Not down voting, but coming from another very large and diverse country, I call some BS on this. We could spend 24 hours a day just reporting the goings on in our own country. But we don't. Because we recognize that we are not the only country in the world, and our news is not the only news worth knowing. That being said, as many have pointed out, there is a distinct lack of news reporting when it comes to certain areas, countries, races, genders (even within our country). So it's not right to call people purposely ignorant, but it is also not right to essentially say "Too busy with my own life/country to care about anyone else's."

@Hippopotamuses tell that to the Iraqis you clown

If the media doesn't report it - how are we supposed to know`?

It’s the mindset of the media. We can’t control what they broadcast and more importantly what they DON’T - so why are you blaming the general public? I moved abroad and am lucky enough to have access to international news stations now. That doesn’t exist in the US. It’s the fault of the government, not the people. I’m wealthy and choose to travel and expand my horizons with my wealth. That is not the case for 99% of the population. And people everywhere generally are selfish and stupid. Traveling is my passion but I’ve come to that very unfortunate yet resolute conclusion. In Lisbon right now and the general manager has been bending over backwards for me over one of the stupidest decisions their front desk made in error on my part.

Cue Americans blaming the media. Pro tip: BBC reports in English.

Upvoted because it's a perfectly reasonable comment. There was THE thing, and then the other thing, and we all know that media coverage of Africa is close to non existent. Not only in the US, in my country we only heard about it tangentially.

And to be honest, the folks aren’t White

That is the dumbest most white privileged way of thinking. Trust me, people outside america laugh hysterically at how stupidly ignorant we are about the outside world. They say if it isnt spoon fed through certain news, americans don't know. America has become a joke to those in other countries... Im so thankful i was able to get outside and see the real world and actually LEARN stuff about this amazing world i live in and not just murica! :'(

A lot of really important minerals come from DR Congo. The reason that your media stay quiet is that so long as there is conflict, the minerals will continue to be mined by slaves under appalling conditions and you can get them nice and cheaply. It absolutely *does* have an effect on your lives - it makes you richer. Pretending that American wealth isn't dependent on child labor, slavery and appalling suffering is to be unbearably naïve.

What a ridiculous thing to say. There is an entire world outside of your country- start taking notice of ot as you may learn a thing or two.

Another reason was that the importation of slaves was illegal in the US after 1810-ish (I may be off by a few years there). And while smuggling definitely happened, and it sounds terrible to say, in general American slave owners had a more limited supply, and therefore it wasn't financially viable to work American slaves to death to quickly. That's not to say that it didn't ever happen, or to defend American slavery in anyway

its why 11 million were shipped to brazil while only 220,000 to what is today the USA

I’ve heard some people say that, with our current global population being larger than ever before, there might even be more people enslaved today than there ever has been before in history :( (I haven’t fact checked this so keep that in mind, but it’s a pretty grim thought)

That's an excellent show. This was really an interesting thing to learn .

Dark Winds is amazing! I physically got sick in the doctor's office scene when the translator, Emma Leaphorn,.wife of the lead character, told Sally Growing Thunder what would actually happen if she had her baby at that clinic--non-consensual sterilization.

Between the sterilizing and the Scoop.. Horrifying. :(