vr enjoyer and occasional gamedev living in ohio, usa who uses arch btw
The Tulsa Race Massacre beats it by a few months, May 31st to June 1st. It leveled around 35 blocks of a wealthy black community, partly using firebombs dropped from planes, which was known up until that point as “Black Wall Street”. A 2001 commission put the death count somewhere between 150-300 deaths, and noted that the city aided in the massacre.
And (if they’re American) when they go “well, MY government wouldn’t do that!” counter with how Meta has already, numerous times, gotten people arrested for talking about getting abortions on Facebook