Not a lot of domestic mass casualty events in modern times, especially with death tolls above 200. That’s true. But there are some truly horrific ones in more turbulent times in US history, particularly when the US was a younger country and cops didn’thave riot dispersal gear/less-lethal ammo. You have to remember that China as it exists today didn’t really exist until 1949 at the end of the civil war.
In the US there’s lots of historic ones. Many of which happened closer to our civil war (in the following decades) - wounded knee, atlanta race riots, tulsa massacre, etc. Hundreds died in all those and were extremely fucked up.
Then there’s more modern ones like the LA race riots in 1992 which killed like 60+ people minimum. Detroit race riots in the 1960s with a death toll of ~50 iirc. Like 40 people died in the BLM protests just a few years ago. Fatalities are largely lower due to cops using less-lethal weaponry.
It’s a different historical and tech context. I’d say they aren’t directly comparable. But yeah the US gov’t hasn’t killed 200-500 protesters in a single event within the last 100 years afaik.
Not a lot of domestic mass casualty events in modern times, especially with death tolls above 200. That’s true. But there are some truly horrific ones in more turbulent times in US history, particularly when the US was a younger country and cops didn’thave riot dispersal gear/less-lethal ammo. You have to remember that China as it exists today didn’t really exist until 1949 at the end of the civil war.
In the US there’s lots of historic ones. Many of which happened closer to our civil war (in the following decades) - wounded knee, atlanta race riots, tulsa massacre, etc. Hundreds died in all those and were extremely fucked up.
Then there’s more modern ones like the LA race riots in 1992 which killed like 60+ people minimum. Detroit race riots in the 1960s with a death toll of ~50 iirc. Like 40 people died in the BLM protests just a few years ago. Fatalities are largely lower due to cops using less-lethal weaponry.
It’s a different historical and tech context. I’d say they aren’t directly comparable. But yeah the US gov’t hasn’t killed 200-500 protesters in a single event within the last 100 years afaik.
Yet.