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I'm writing a video essay on social murder. Who has the guaranteed right to continue living? (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by to c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml
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Comrades, pretty please give me your yummy yummy facts and anecdotes about the silent atrocities in your favorite countries.

I'm making this in light of CPC's elimination of destitution in 2021 (by the standards of the 2 No Worries and 3 Guarantees) and thereby their largest source of social murder.

So far it looks like they're the only ones to have accomplished this?

In Germany, the social safety net is designed to keep you alive but in poverty, which still results in visible destitute populations that experience social murder.

I have a huge blind spot in Central Asia, Russia and Africa. Please help.

Spitballing and guesswork is highly appreciated.

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[–] 17 points 3 weeks ago* (10 children)

People do not really talk about the state of the Indian reservations in the United States. Not to mention they talk about racism and systematic racism, but do not mention how far it goes. They also forgot about the situation for America's territories like Puerto Rico, United States Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American Samoa.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Yeah like America sterilized a 1/3 of the ENTIRE female population of Puerto Rico until like the 70s literally a forgotten genocide.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    🫪

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago*

    Yeah puerto ricans where used as the examplary of “poverty culture” where due to their inherent culture they would breed uncontrollably and imbue traits in their children which systematically stifle their ability to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” (it was literally called Operation Bootstrap) into higher education.

    This was the era of “family planning” and neo-malthusian mania about India and Africa needing to institute a one-child policy or otherwise they would “eat up” the planet.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    If you are interested (both you and OP) in a specific and brutal case of social murder within the context of indigenous americans I recommend Yellow Dirt by Judy Pasternak. It's about how Navajos and their land were poisoned by Uranium mining.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Gabe Valdez, a New Mexico state trooper was looking into cattle mutilations in New Mexico in the 70s and talking about how he believed the government was mutilating cattle to test the after effects of radiation from Project Gasbuggy where they did a underground nuclear detonation in rural northwestern New Mexico.

    It is worth noting this was in places in or near Native American reservations.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

    I'm not sure to what extent destitution is forced upon those living on reserves. I assume some enforcement mechanisms are in place there to restrict the economy. Do you have an idea?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    There are towns outside the reservation that exist just to sell the native residents alcohol and other addictives.

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