Chema Hernández Gil on Nostr: The Salem witch trials, slavery, segregation, the California Genocide, and many other ...
The Salem witch trials, slavery, segregation, the California Genocide, and many other similar barbarities were well within the rule of law, until they weren't. And even technically illegal acts, like the Abu Ghraib abuses, only led to minimal consequences.
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