Absolutely bizarre thing to say. The first liberation of women in the US was 1837 when women were allowed to control their own property. The second big liberation was securing the right to vote in 1920.
The issue with what you say is how women were treated after the “boys” came home. As other responses pointed out Women have always worked. The change was the type of work.
They were forced out of their new roles. This was not liberating at all. In fact, it was quite the opposite know your place kind of adjustment.
I suppose you could make an argument that this created an eventual backlash where the first women won the right to equal pay in 1961-2.
You have a point about more women working after this time, but it was not equal as they were forced into “pink” color jobs. I would argue the war really lead to more exploitation of women.
Hitler’s murder crusade inadvertently lead to women being exploited even more than they were before by US capitalism. I suppose it did prove that women could do the job of men, even if their society didn’t respect them.
Fascism comes in many flavors and in varying degrees and the US has lead the way evolving corporatism into its logical conclusion the corportocracy. Think the military industrial complex itself lobbying for military action or proliferation. A sick partnership ensuring future death.
The fact that I can be critical does not mean I don’t recognize some of the good things. The US did help prevent spreading of disease in countries despite overthrowing 70 plus countries and killing uncounted millions of civilians.
China has raised close to a billion people out of abject poverty even if its policies killed millions of its own citizens.
The British Empire did bring modern technology to the colonies they brutally oppressed. Always look on the bright side of life?
I have to disagree with hand waving away what the US has done. Certainly you might compare it to history, but this isn’t ancient history with the Mongols or the Romans.
These are modern times and intent matters in culpability. The propaganda used to draw people to the Americas is another great example of the knowledge of what is right. The founding fathers of America loved to write about their virtues.
Is it fair to hold them to a higher standard? As I said we get to look at all this from a modern lense. The answer in unequivocally yes. We debated and decided on genocide. It was not a happenstance or an unfortunate externality.
Hitler was inspired by the genocide of the Native Americans and modeled his eventual extermination of the Jews after it. Ford and other wealthy US industrialists helped bankroll the Nazi Empire.
When Hitler approached other nations to take the Jews in the US refused and these wealthy lobbyists made sure to stroke anti-jew sentiment throughout Europe to ensure no one else would.
Nowhere to go the Jews were sent to the ghettos only the Nazi didn’t have a way to track them effectively. None other than IBM comes to the rescue and develops a census system that was used for those cool looking WWII arm tattoos.
IBM then helped with the computing power to figure out just how many Jews to load onto the trains per day so the deaths camps wouldn’t back up. You know, just typical logistical stuff.
That is another genocide the US participated in. That is what makes all the pro US WWII propaganda so ridiculous. Fascism was never defeated, a chapter was just closed for the moment.
As I stated the ruling class that calls the shots for the US are unlike anything before and they are not just what anyone would do. I am sure some people would describe it as evil and I think it was and is criminal in nature.
Playing both sides of conflicts and eventually turning this apparatus against US citizens in a third genocide known as The War on Drugs. Resulting in no less a third of all US citizens having some sort of criminal conviction, millions of families destroyed and millions of lives lost and still going strong to this day.
Almost everyone in America has lost a loved one to addiction. Crazy amounts of people overdose because the government tries to criminalize them in its genocidal efforts.
Out of control gun violence. I know several people in my lifetime that have been shot and killed. Being shot and killed is the number one child killer in America. It really does boggle the mind to realize there are more guns than people in the US.
It is not normal, I am trying to explain this to you. US technology has been unbelievably devastating to the world and has ushered in our AI apocalypse of mismanaged dysfunction.
US is responsible for so much suffering just through their technology alone. From the extremes like the Nuclear technology to the environmentally devastating like leaded gasoline. Just leaded gasoline alone has killed hundreds of millions of people and was estimated to still kill five million per year.a couple of years ago.
I don’t think anyone can truly comprehend the destruction that the the US has brought. Insane things like poisoning every human on the planet with both forever chemicals and plastics.
Back in the 1950s petroleum scientist knew about global warming. The US have fought tooth and nail to discredit the information they knew from the start. This purposeful campaign to deny or minimize reality will lead to the inaction that will displace a billion people with no plan which will likely become the greatest loss of life from a man made event in history.
It will be in the billions of dead before it is all said and done and that is if we don’t face total annihilation with the possibility of a nuclear winter.
This is not the future that humanity deserves. The list goes on and on and no matter what horrors you learn about, there are several more afoot. More research reveals more atrocities that would all take a lifetime to truly research.
I really wasn’t looking for a counterpoint to everything I said. Thanks for the effort though.