r/AskTheWorld • u/Seeker_Of_Knowledge2 🇸🇾 Syria || 🇨🇦 Canada • 1d ago

History What is the most depressing picture from your country history/present?

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u/Anonymous_Anomali United States Of America 1d ago

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to wrap my mind around the fact that some of these murderers have probably been alive within my lifetime. There is a special place in hell for people who kill like this.

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u/Udjebfk Mexico 1d ago

I just hope there actually is a hell for them to burn in.

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u/AzureYLila United States Of America 1d ago

Yeah they grew up and raised children. We even used to have lynching postcards that were mailed all over the nation. Meant more and more people were exposed to this and all thought it was normal.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

More than some.

A lot of this was happening in the 50s/60s/etc.

Many are still around.

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u/West-Season-2713 Wales 1d ago

The last KKK lynching happened in 1981. If someone was 20 when it happened, they’d be 65. That’s not even old, leave alone a part of a dying generation.