My top 5 "Darkest Moments in America History"

[Ferrets are Cool]

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5- The last 4 years of tRump presidency

4- Kennedy Assassination

3- the Vietnam war

2- the Civil War

1- the genocide of the Indigenous Americans


This is my list. It is not cemented in stone. Change my mind.

[empedocles]

1. Slave owner/Robber Baron, cruel ripoffs

[Glorfindel]

2. ummm....I think you mean "assassination"

I mean there may have been "assignations," but they'd hardly count as darkest moments.

[Ferrets are Cool]

8. darn spellcheck and being blind

[lpbk2713]

3. The Great Depression and The Dust Bowl might squeeze in there somewhere.

It might be a tough call.

[Arne]

4. I've got one

When Yellowstone blew up and destroyed the Northern hemisphere.
Oh that hasn't happened yet?

[My Pet Orangutan]

6. The bartender said 'We don't serve time-travellers here.'

A time-traveller walks into a bar.

[UncleTomsEvilBrother]

5. People...

...literally "owned" other people and considered them less than human by raping them, beating them, and treating them like animals. It's even sanctioned by the US constitution.

[Ferrets are Cool]

10. Yes

I was doing an all inclusive with that and the Civil War, but that is not accurate. Thanks for adding it.

[zipplewrath]

7. Trail of Tears

Innumerable white riots against black communities that wiped them out, often killing many of them in the process.

Jim Crow

The attack on Fort Sumter.

Mexican American War

The internment camps of WWII

The War on (some) Drugs.

[Ferrets are Cool]

9. Those are some good ones

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. Slavery and its aftermath.

[Dem4Life1102]

12. Pearl Harbor?

9/11?

[Ferrets are Cool]

13. In my list neither of those are in Top 5

but all lists are subjective.

[Act_of_Reparation]

14. Interesting that slavery didn't make the cut.

[Ferrets are Cool]

15. As I said in another post, I combined

the civil war and slavery into one thing. It may have been wrong not to separate them. But, it WAS what the civil war was fought over.

[Act_of_Reparation]

16. Hey, no judgement.

Ask somebody to rattle five things off the top of their head, it is interesting to see how the unconscious mind works. I would also say there's a lot of recency bias in your picks, i.e. events that happened during your lifetime. Vietnam, Kennedy, and Trump are all very important to people in a particular age group, but how does their broader impact stand up?

[Ferrets are Cool]

17. Yeah, it's all subjective.