WhatWouldKarlDo

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Honourable mentions to:

The Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1987, where 200,000 people marched on Washington DC to demand equality for LGBT people. It had some marginal success, and the struggle is ongoing to this day.

In an incident very similar to The Attica Prison Massacre which I wrote about last month, prisoners in Washington DC rose up in 1972 to demand better treatment. They were promised improvements and no reprisals. They received neither.

Glad you enjoy it! It's a lot more exhausting than I was expecting, if I'm honest. I'm going to be very happy indeed when this project is complete. But I don't plan to stop in the near future. I've already made it much much further than I expected to.

It's always irritated me that so many people think that the holocaust was entirely about exterminating Jews. It does a disservice to everyone else who died at their hands. I would have been sent to the camps for at least 3 reasons. None of them for being a Jew. I recognise that Jews probably got the worst of it (Slavs would certainly be #2, which I am not either). I'm not trying to start genocide olympics, it's just seldom that people recognise that there were more than just Jews in the camps.

Honourable mentions to:

The Battle of North Fork of Red River in 1872, where the US army attacked a native village and took residents hostage.

The Balangiga Massacre in 1901, where Imperial US troops were hit by Philippine partisans in defence of their country. The US was horrified by the loss of their jackboots and responded by issuing an order to "Kill Everyone Over Ten".

The Second Occupation of Cuba in 1906, where the US once again invaded Cuba. The US regime stayed for 3 years until they could set up a government that they liked.