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BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours ago

I think the biggest disservice that I received from my US Public School education was being taught that the civil rights movement was something from the past.

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I think the biggest disservice that I received from my US Public School education was being taught that the civil rights movement was something from the past.

BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours ago
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  • protist@retrofed.com
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    12 hours ago

    Have any examples?

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      Just Google “forced sterilization of indigenous women” https://apnews.com/article/canada-indigenous-women-sterilization-apology-reparations-ebcacc0f27b8d4c12d8690718202531d

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        11 hours ago

        Clearly still happening recently in Canada, how about the US?

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          Y𝖾s, including in the Unit𝖾d Stat𝖾s.  Quick s𝖾arch𝖾s pull up many r𝖾sults, both on indig𝖾nous p𝖾opl𝖾s and on many oth𝖾rs including migrants in ICE d𝖾t𝖾ntion.


          Example 1 - Indigenous Peoples  Here’s a link that claims “From 1907 until as recently as 2018, tens of thousands of Native women underwent tubal ligation”


          Example 2 - Migrants Here’s a summary link of prior/current cases.   “On September 14, 2020, nurse Dawn Wooten filed a whistleblower complaint . . . Wooten said that nearly every [detained migrant] woman who went to see a doctor was told she had to undergo a hysterectomy.”


          Example 3 - Another link with more summaries and cited sources.  Some were court & judge approved coercion.   “As recently as May 2017, Tennessee Judge Sam Benningfield signed an order that offered misdemeanor offenders 30-day sentence reductions if they underwent either a vasectomy or a birth control implant [16].” “Between 2005 and 2013, 144 women were coerced into sterilization in California [19].”

          Edit: formatting

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      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/27/canada-indigenous-women-sterilisation-lawsuit closest I find find in 5 minutes

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      Another quick search https://www.nccih.ca/docs/child and youth/FS-Forced-sterilization-EN-Web.pdf

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