I’d say the US government putting their own Japanese citizens in camps during WW2. What did that accomplish?

The betrayal of Anne Frank’s hiding place is one of the most heartbreaking in modern history.

Internal documents and investigative reporting revealed that Exxon's own scientists conducted sophisticated climate research as far back as the late 1970s and 1980s, producing findings that accurately predicted global warming from fossil fuel emissions.

Rather than making this research public, Exxon pivoted in the 1990s to funding climate denial campaigns, lobbying against climate regulations, and publicly casting doubt on the scientific consensus, even while internally acknowledging the risks their own research had identified.

"We should give tax breaks for the rich and help them get more money, its totally gonna trickle down to everyone else like, trust me bro"

~Reagan or something, idk.

Overturning Roe v Wade.

Native Americans being hospitable to pilgrims and then eventually pilgrims and their descendants massacring Native Americans and stealing their land.

How has no one said when Colonel Henry Bouquet and General Jeffrey Amherst handed over blankets infected with small pox to exterminate natives. This is the worst type of betrayal.

Alan Turing. Genius who helped crack The Enigma Code. Treated poorly for the rest of his life.

Russia telling Ukraine to hand over all their atomic bombs to Russia in exchange to never attack Ukraine.

Gonna put one in for Vidkun Quisling, who handed all of Norway's defense plans over to the Germans in WW2 in exchange for being made governor of the territory.

Nestle lying to breastfeeding African mothers that formula is better, once they couldn’t get access to said formula, their babies starved. Thousands and thousands of children passed in the aftermath of this.

The tuskegee syphilis study is one of the worst betrayals imo.

from 1932 to 1972, the u.s. public health service told a group of poor black men they were getting free treatment for “bad blood.” they weren’t. they had syphilis, and the whole point was to watch what happened if it went untreated.

penicillin became a cure in the 40s. they still didn’t treat them. they even stopped some of them from getting it elsewhere.

these men trusted doctors and the government, kept showing up thinking they were being helped, while they were literally being studied as they got sicker.

went on for 40 years. only stopped bc it got exposed.