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maybe-later-honey They took my grandpa's slaves!

morello-shred Cry about it.

Also what kind of a fucking name is Robby Starbuck.

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[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

I know next-to-nothing about Peruvian politics. I've always thought of them as problematic—overall better good than bad—but I don't know any specifics. Is there somewhere I can read more about it?

Asking in good faith, of course. Not as a "SOURCE???? berdly-smug" dipshit, obviously.

[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's been a while since I looked into it, but what I remember finding was that they engaged in a lot of terrorism that wasn't necessarily directed at the ruling class.

-Massacred a lot of peasants.

-Including babies

-Sometimes executed people with boiling water or other forms of torture

Abimael Guzman, their leader, IIRC admitted to most of this in interviews and called it revolutionary excess.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

I've seen some dispute the boiling babies thing, but everyone seems to agree they killed a whole lot of peasants.

[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

My understanding is that boiling peasants isn't disputed, and neither is killing peasant babies, but that specifically boiling babies is disputed.

For me personally, "Hey, we only scalded adults to death, we shot their babies" is still really bad. That's like some IOF stuff.

[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

And it became ridiculously cult-like later in their existence, owing it more to their leader than any kind of revolutionary stance. And still kinda are to this day

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

I don't know that much about them, but from what I've seen, they don't seem to be liked around here (and may have been backed by the CIA?).

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