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This may not be verbatim but what the fuck is going on? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by FatTony@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The US waged a campaign of sterilization in Puerto Rico to slow down it's population growth and to prevent it from becoming a state. The US also regularly sterilized Latinas up until the 1970's

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, and we're in good company.

(To be clear, this is reprehensible. But it's not helpful to focus solely on the US on this topic.)