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Can you give examples of how US Americans do/perpetuate these things?

Asked by Jenniehowell (2214points) September 11th, 2015

Tell me how the US & it’s citizens currently commit these acts &/or how they perpetuate the results of these types of acts they’ve committed in the past.

UN Convention on the Prevention & Punishment of Genocide defines the international legal definition of genocide as….

any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Some examples of the types of things I’m looking for:

*In 2013 in California it was discovered that black & Latino female prisoners were being sterilized without their permission or knowledge and it had been done for decades. They only stopped because they were caught.

*Despite legal agreements and govt. treaties with Native tribes to the contrary, it often occurs where if a Native parent is deemed unsuitable, the child is placed with a non-Native foster or adoptive parents.

*US Missionaries go around the globe attempting to convert people to Christianity therefore eroding other religious practices and cultures and then those who are converted begin to take the teachings they have learned and use them to justify the making of limiting laws or the rapes and killings of certain groups of people – such as “kill the gays” laws in Kenya or the killing of people suspected to be witches in various African places or the abuse of women in various places in Africa etc. Similar things happen in India and elsewhere as well.

*The US – despite govt. treaties barring them from doing so, have recently sold Native reservation land to non-US countries for business purposes.

*The US has law enforcement policies and patterns that target particular ethnic groups over others to a point where a white person and a black person can commit the exact same crime and come out with results that are different to the extreme ranging from excessive force & murder by cop to loss of property and extended sentencing.

Of course there are also ways that the US contributes to these things around the globe – giving weapons to one country or another or one group or another. Assisting &/or ignoring our allies despite the atrocities they may commit (Israel for example) etc. the list goes on.

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