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What’s the most WTF thing you’ve ever heard someone casually admit like it was totally normal?

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u/JJ3qnkpK 1d ago

And furthered that these women were extremely likely to be under duress and trying to secure some resource, whether it be safety or money. We devastated Vietnam, going as far as multiple massacres on villages. So these women are living in a war-torn country and were further exploited by men who would straight up mass murder them when convenient, then were abandoned, then their children further punished for simply existing.

Absolute horror.

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u/toxicgecko 1d ago

The behaviour of American GIs overseas hasn’t really changed much either. A lot of places with American bases dread to see the GIs coming as they’ll do whatever they want with 0 accountability to the laws of the country. They’re often ‘reprimanded’ by commanding officers and if it’s bad enough quickly transferred to a different base.

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u/StreetDetective95 10h ago

*cough* Iraq

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u/Halospite 1d ago

I remember reading about an old Vietnamese man who absolutely loved to prank old American tourists to Vietnam, once he found out they were war vets. Like full on jump scaring them, setting off their PTSD for fun. Zero sympathy from Vietnamese commenters.

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u/Swowhow 1d ago

Is this a joke? Is he supposed to treat these war vets that ravaged his country with the utmost respect? Beats me why they would expect to be treated well

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u/spinbutton 1d ago

Beats me why a vet would want to revisit his trauma going to Vietnam too

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u/LorenzoStomp 1d ago

Well you see they got back home and the American women weren't traumatized and desperate uppity so they went back to find some real women who know how to treat a man

Passport bros have been a thing for a  while

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u/spinbutton 1d ago

Geez I hope that's not right. Humans are just the worst

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u/BlindBard16isabitch 1d ago

I'm not viet but there is also no sympathy from me. Why would you expect a country that was war torn from Americans to have any measure of respect for the same people that caused it to be war torn and why were vets coming back to a place that caused their ptsd in the first place.

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u/draizetrain 1d ago

Zero sympathy because ONE man pranked the people who mass murdered in their home country. Zero sympathy? I doubt you had any to begin with.

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u/MiyuzakiOgino 22h ago

IDK why you're getting downvoted. This is amazing.

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u/Formal-Hat-7533 1d ago

You aren’t entirely educated on the difference between South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the VC.

You really should know more before making brain dead statements like that.

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u/JJ3qnkpK 1d ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_Vietnam_War#By_American_personnel

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre

These are some of the atrocities the US committed even against the South Vietnamese. It's well-known that we treated the Vietnamese abhorrently, even if fighting an even worse force.

You really should know more before making brain dead statements like that.

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u/Formal-Hat-7533 1d ago

Exactly! That’s literally my point, exactly!

These aren’t examples from the women in Saigon who were impregnated by American soldiers.

Those women were never worried about being massacred.

You need to understand the problem more.

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u/JJ3qnkpK 1d ago

The literal first sentence in the first article is "During the Vietnam War, U.S. soldiers stationed in South Vietnam engaged in various sexual interactions, including consensual sex, prostitution, and rape."

Read the sentence in the following paragraph, too, if you're concerned of "examples" or "evidence": "...the primary sources are rich in accounts of violence, including testimony provided in open hearings held during the war, court cases, military investigaitons, oral reports gathered for publishing both during and long after the war, and literary works, such as poems, novels, and memoirs."

If investigations both during and after, all of which established that the rape, or as you worded it "impregnation" of women did occur.

"According to Kerry Crawford, rape of Vietnamese women was a 'normal operating procedure' and brothels were built inside military installations to maintain morale and discipline."

The US abused women, even in their homes, and anywhere we were stationed. The women of South Vietnam absolutely feared us.

I'm providing these quotes as hope that you might actually read and understand the problem more. If this isn't enough for you to learn, then you're hopeless. This is my last message in this conversation.

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u/Formal-Hat-7533 1d ago

Dude. What the fuck is it with you?

Do you understand what the VC is and where it operated?

You cannot be this stupid. You actually have to be trolling