Let's talk about twisted moments in human history
#1
The orange turd being elected as president of the US of A.
110points
#2
What we did to the Native Americans
106points
#3
Auschwitz
89points
#4
Leopold's genocide in the Congo. More than 10 million Africans killed. Children and/or their parents who refused to harvest rubber for tyres had their hands amputated.
88points
#5
Anti-abortion laws - all of them.
75points
#6
The holocaust
61points
#7
the story of the radium girls from the 1920s. if you don't know, these women worked in factories painting watches for years on end. it was a very good opportunity at the time,paying as much as men's jobs and helped families who were struggling to make ends meet. but the paint used for the watches? it had radium in it to make the watches glow. the women had to lick their paintbrushes to make a fine point on them and they ingested the radium. it got to the point where it was disintegrating their bones and they would literally glow in the dark. and all that time, the companies knew what the radium would do. but they kept it a secret from the public. the girls died after putting up a fight to win their court case and won, but they still died. it honestly makes me sick that this happened.
58points
#8
How Christ's teachings were twisted to serve the political power structures - and still are. For just one example, how women were pushed out of their rightful places as part of the early movement, in particular by lying about Mary Magdalene the Apostle and her teachings, which were directly derived from Jesus, so called (His real name was Yeshua). There was no hierarchy, no priests, no concept of Heaven or Hell, or the concept of "a just war" in those early days. Reincarnation was part of the early teachings, rejected centuries later for political reasons. One of the reasons the Romans didn't like these people was their extreme pacifism - which limited the intake of soldiers that the Empire depended on. The versions of Christianity that exist today are travesties of the original teachings. It's like the Pharisees won.
57points
#9
The birth of the Reality Show. Sure, it might not have had such serious ramifications as other things on this topic, but just think about how much better television would be without them...
55points
#10
The Trail of Tears
53points
#11
Trump being elected as president then everybody in the Republican party worshipping him. Not to mention the way he handled the pandemic and the United States in general. Piece of garbage.
48points
#12
Tulsa Race Massacre.
47points
#13
Human experiments by the Japanese in Manchuria. What Unit 731 did to Chinese and Russian prisoners was brutal. Worst thing is the American government gave immunity to the perpetrators in exchange for their results. Chief surgeon Shiro Ishi lived a comfortable life after the war, completely untouched; and a great deal of what doctors know about the human body in combat situations are because of such experiments.
44points
#14
The things that happened in asylums. It was pretty much torture for the people who had to go through that, because of anything from autism to PTSD to being queer to even being a woman and not listening to men. It's horrific and scary. I'm glad that I live in a world where it's mostly over, although the stigma is still alive and well.
38points
#15
the shooting of gay bars...
35points
#16
the crusades
34points
#17
Murders, genocides, isolation, and everything related to any religion.
33points
#18
The attacks of 11 September 2001, and the subsequent "war on terror" that has merely created even more terrorists, as well as wrecked many rights of US citizens.
The Republicans and Big Business conniving for decades to destroy the working class.
30points
#19
The rape of naking
29points
#20
The Spanish Inquisition and burning ‘heretics’ at the stake.
27points