Thanks for watching! Which laws did I forget to include? Sponsor info: aura.com/mrbeat to get a 14-day free trial of Aura and see if your personal information has been compromised. Dishonorable mentions: Tariff of Abominations Embargo Act of 1807 PATRIOT Act No Child Left Behind Act Comstock Laws Emergency Quota Act Espionage Act Sedition Act of 1918 Immigration Act of 1924 Indian Civilization Act Public Law 503 Tariff of 1824 Tariff of 1842 McKinley Tariff Force Bill The Tenure of Office Act Platt Amendment Immigration Act of 1903 Immigration Act of 1918 Harrison Narcotics Tax Act The Jones Act Emergency Quota Act Central Intelligence Agency Act Protect America Act National Firearms Act Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 Anti-Drug Act of 1986 1994 Crime Bill The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act The Telecommunications Act of 1996 Defense of Marriage Act The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq of 2002 And for those asking, of my Worst 10 list, the Alien Enemies Act of the Alien and Sedition Acts and The Authorization for use of Military Force of 2001 are technically the only two laws still in effect today.
EO 9066 was thematically on point. It imprisoned roughly 80,000 US citizens and 40k legal permanent residents because of Japanese ancestry for the duration of WW2. Small numbers of German and Italian non-legal residents were likewise incarcerated. The law/EO was famously upheld by the Supreme Court (another list idea!).
I think the PATRIOT Act should've made this list. In my eyes, it was one of the greatest affronts to the first amendment our government has ratified. It disrespected the tenets of our justice system such as being innocent until proven guilty and having a right to privacy
@vacuumgaze5277 pretty sure my library checkouts bring relatively anti imperialism in the aftermath of the AUMF got me on a list thanks to the patriot act.
@dapv144 the Patriot Act is the intersection between the War on Crime/Drugs and the War on Terror. Terrorism gave lawmakers the excuse to be tougher on crime leading to a continuation of pre-existing crime policy that disproportionately surveiled and prosecuted Black and Brown communities. This process of surveillance for these communities was not created by an evil white cabal, but instead by majority white lawmakers who wanted to impose social control over groups they deemed as threats. Many Black lawmakers rose to power on the back of this crime policy for a multitude of reasons. Simply because Obama is Black does not make the disproportionate targeting of Black and brown communities by law enforcement aided by the Patriot Act less racist.
@@iammrbeat, don't laugh, have you seen some of the proposed laws that have failed? They sadly keep coming back again and again, like a bad case of herpes, which oddly can describe many terrible politicians who keep getting re-elected! 😝
Hey Mr. Beat, I'm 22 years old and from the Netherlands. I am watching your videos for years now, and I just want to thank you for everything I learned from you about the (political) history of the United States. As a political junky and history-nerd who is fascinated by the USA, you are just the perfect teacher for that. Keep going with it! Greetings, Tobias.
@@ezandman6804 Ik zat toevallig onlangs weer te kijken, en ik heb 2 jaar geleden een top tier list gemaakt met presidenten die ik kan inschatten haha. Maar ik zag dat ik best toe ben aan een update op dat gebied, dus ik wil in aanloop naar de presidentsverkiezingen wel weer een nieuwe maken. 👌
@@tobiasdenhollander3210 ....ja daar begint t al bij mij: "De tier list". Ik vind dat maar niets om ze in te delen in groepjes. Ik zie persoonlijk gewoon liever een "harde" ranking van boven naar beneden. Gelukkig vind ik pre civilwar interessant dus die presidenten snap ik een klein beetje maar rond 1900 en daarvoor is nog steeds dikke mist bij mij, moet ik aan werken. En ja Mr. Beat helpt daarbij. Ik hing ook een tijdje bij VTH rond maar die kerel blijft me soms iets teveel hangen in "reactie nivo" en "militairisme" spreekt me ook minder aan. Beat daarentegen is altijd welkom.
Timestamps #10: The Alien and Sedition Acts - 2:54 #9: The Authorization for Use of Military Force of 2001 - 4:21 #8: The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act - 5:40 #7: The Controlled Substances Act - 7:43 #6: The Kansas-Nebraska Act - 8:49 #5: The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - 9:57 #4: The Chinese Exclusion Act - 11:25 #3: The Fugitive Slave Act - 12:33 #2: The Dawes Act - 13:49 #1: The Indian Removal Act - 15:10
@@iammrbeat I feel the fact that the Alien Friends Act made it into the US Code should be mentioned, because it is the only one of the four acts to survive.
I hope everyone remembers how Rep Barbara Lee was raked over the coals for being the one vote against the AUMF. She was called a traitor, a terrorist sympathizer, she and her family were threatened. But her reasoning against the bill was so rational, so *patriotic*
@@kingace6186a lot of laws that made Mr. Beat's top 10 or dishonorable mentions were either genuine attempts to solve a problem that went horribly wrong (Every Child Left Behind), or explained to the public in a way that sounded benevolent and humane (Dawes act). It's sad that a lot more good stuff could have happened if people read the fine print and decided to edit it.
Thank you so much for calling the Indian Removal Act an act of genocide. It really isn't talked about like that here in the south and for young people being able to hear you accurately present history is so important. Keep up the good work!
What?!! Where in the south do you live? It's been taught as genocide here in Alabama at least since I was in school in the 90s. I'm sorry, don't answer where you live. That was inappropriate for me to ask, I'm just so horrified that's taught differently anywhere in America!
I feel like the controlled substances act is one of the worst pieces of legislation in us history, its caused millions of peoples lives to be ruined and countless people killed and created a huge divide between police and citizens. It also has made usa a prison state with the highest incarceration rate in the world
The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq of 2002 should be on this list, given that the Iraq War was an unjustified war and a geopolitical disaster.
That was one of the worst, both the going to war and the claiming of No We didn't support it, We authorized it but didn't think it would actually happen like that ... without the conditions that we didn't make conditions ...
Yeah , the laws made against the slaves and Native Americans should be among the worst in American history but laws made in the last three and a half years under the Biden administration should also be in the top 10
My wife was a history major when we studied at Humboldt State (now Cal Poly Humboldt) in California back in 2018. On orientation day for the history majors, a Chinese history professor opened with "You probably have a lot of questions about this area, such as, why are there no Chinese restaurants around here? The answer is that **all** Chinese people were expelled from the county in the 1880s, and Chinese folk are understandably hesitant to move back". The Humboldt County business board advertised in 1890 that the county was "the only county in the state containing no Chinamen". (yikes) To this day, Asians and Asian-Americans (with the exception of a Hmong community) are a much smaller proportion of the population in Humboldt County than you might expect for a coastal California county. (If you're curious for more, "1885 Chinese expulsion from Eureka" has a bit more info.) I remember learning about that and being reminded of just how long lasting the effects of policies can really be, even far after they've officially ended. It's always something to keep in mind when we talk about helping those negatively impacted by acts like these, just undoing the act is a first, tiny step in the process.
I knew about your channel for a while but I'm now huge into your history videos than ever before. I love the way things are explained and are easy and entertaining to follow.
Honestly this video is one of the reasons I hate what we are/were. It seems like some stuff from the 1800s is still lingering and nothing has been done to stop it.. namely the racism
“How can slavery still be affecting people, that was a long time ago?” “Like how people still idolize that failed slaver’s revolt from 160 years ago.” “Oh…”
@@warlordofbritanniaBecause there are elites that still enslave people tonthis very day. In 1808 slavery was outlawed but social exceptance is the reason it was practiced. In 1865, slavery was (abolished) only because the working poor at the time couldn't afford to buy, and have slaves. The civil was had NOTHING to do with slavery at all. After the war, the land owners became government electorate and employees to make policies to keep those that were slaves, subjugated to this very day through: religion, economics, social, and education. These are the forces that keep racism in affect today.
Lets not forget The American Service-Members' Protection Act or also known as "The Hague Invasion Act". Which enables the president of the U.S. "to use all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any person described in subsection (b) who is being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court". Because The US doesn't like when its soldiers are judged for their war crimes.
@@vantaplat7411 Very few people, understandably, really support world government overall, pretty few people even really support strong forms of world government-like bodies.
@@vantaplat7411 If an American (or anyone for that matter) commits a crime *abroad,* they might get prosecuted abroad. That's how it generally works. Citizenship of a country does not mean that only that country's courts could handle the prosecution if the crime happens somewhere else. If e.g. a Chinese person came to the US and committed a crime, no one would accept the argument that only Chinese courts could prosecute him.
@@vantaplat7411 "they can be tried by the country the commit the crime in" I don't see how that would be essentially different from that country handing them over to the ICC if that country happens to be a party to the Rome Statute. And other countries that are parties to the Rome Statute can surely assist. "And these arent just any normal people." Being a soldier doesn't grant one some kind of special immunity against prosecution for war crimes nor some kind of restriction that only their country of origin could prosecute them.
i’m finishing up my last history class in undergrad and have to write part of my essay on the kansas-nebraska, and fugitive slave, and indian removal acts. such awful stains on our countries history, but i really appreciate you bringing attention to these grotesque laws! love u mr beat!!!!
@@theprime6439 as an ohioan, we need to annex Indiana. And then Michigan. Then the rest of the nation, except Florida. Florida gets to remain cause they're almost as weird as us.
Hey, Mr. Beat! I'm a big fan since I was grade 11 and now I'm a college student taking BA Political Economy in the Philippines, and I appreciate you always making this informative videos!
@@iammrbeat thank u so much!! i hope u make more informative, funny, and engaging videos!! btw i wish u could do a top 10 BEST and WORST executive orders like the EO 13769 (the Muslim Ban) or EO 9066 (Relocation of Japanese to Internment Camps)
Sadly, most Republicans today completely disagree on the idea of rights. They actively try to roll back civil rights. They don't understand the difference between positive & negative freedom. The freedom from interference and freedom to do as you please respectively.
@iammrbeat about the channel? I think it's one the best I've seen in terms of being informative and unbiased. In terms of the video I very much agree that our worst laws are the racially motivated laws with lasting effects that our kids need to know about. Although I actually did learn to hate the War on Drugs a little more because of this video lol
@@braydenhall1718despite conservative nerds saying mr beat is a leftist 😂😂 Ah yes “any normal history teacher that presents information, and doesnt present it in my pragerU format of conservative propaganda revisionist history, is leftisti”
@@piggy8761 gotta love it. I have definitely gotten my fair share of wild accusations for doing such radical things as teaching that the Civil War was fought over slavery lol
@@braydenhall1718 the “free and open ideas” side Federalist society implants although they may not be writing history books and teaching history, they get to be on courts
I’ve recently stumbled upon your videos and I couldn’t quite place why but you’ve always reminded me of my World History teacher from high school. Finding out you’re actually a teacher makes so much sense!
Incredible video as always! Hopefully this list is complete, and no new ones are added in the future... Also, I'd love to see a video about third parties and their history! I love how you talk about them in the Presidential election videos, and would love to see it expanded! All the best!
"Hopefully this list is complete." No kidding. Well put! Regarding your suggestion, I've already done this for multiple third parties. The Whig Party, Free Soil Party, etc. :)
Just want to say big Thank You to Mr.Beat. ive watched so many of your videos and have learned a lot more than my High School History class has taught me. I know these take a lot of time and hard work. Just want to let you know to are greatly appreciated
@@vanquish421 The police are a necessary exception, and they only issue them as needed. Are you saying bribery is rampant with gun sales? If that's true, that's something that needs a large scale investigation as soon as possible, although it's a separate issue compared to gun laws themselves.
The fugitive slave act created extra territoriality in which free states couldn’t extricate themselves from the responsibility to enforce slavery within slave states. Alongside this, the irony in the contradiction between a revolution for liberty and the existence of slavery exacerbated racism in that it reinforced the idea that slaves were inherently incapable of exercising those natural rights of citizenship (in the same way children don’t have adult rights). I think about this often, makes you look at reconstruction in a different light.
Great video! I would love a video on the best federal laws in American history. A video on worst executive orders in American history could be great too. Although you already made a video on the following topic, executive Order 9066 (which incarcerated Japanese Americans in internment camps) comes to mind.
Just for a bit of extra research for y'all, look up The Long Walk (might need to add "Navajo" to your search as people are using that name for other stuff lately). It happened a little over 30 years after the Indian Removal Act, and lead to the death of around 3,000 Navajo people. Its impact is still felt by the Navajo to this day, and I know the Trail of Tears and Long Walk were not isolated instances of removal and relocation in this country. It's important to learn the history of your nation, including the bloody and brutal parts.
You didn’t mention the fact that under the Fugitive Slave Law a judge was paid twice as much for finding that an African American was a fugitive slave than they were paid for finding that he/she was actually free. That alone moves this up on the list for me.
Quick correction: the United States no longer has the highest incarceration rate of any country. Several other countries, most notably El Salvador, have surpassed it
All of these are shameful, but I thought you'd include the measures the FDR government took against the Japanese during WWII, imprisoning them in camps and confiscating their property.
@@iammrbeat "No more kings" - That's what the Romans said at the end of their Republican era. Previously, at the end of the Roman Kingdom, they had overthrown their last king, who was named "SuperBus" (ha). Nonetheless, the Republic eventually became excessively dysfunctional, and Augustus became "First Citizen" (euphemism for "emperor"; the word "king" continued to have a negative connotation through the Imperial Era). I kinda feel like the United States might be in the same place in its history as Rome was at the end of its Republic. The British monarchy during the colonial period is analogous to the old Roman Kingdom. The Constitution of the Roman Republic was no longer able to solve the problems which the Republic faced, so necessarily, ineluctably, it was replaced with something else.
#0: National Firearms Act Did nothing to change violent crime, restricted hundreds of millions from exercising their rights by directly infringing on them, and was a vessel for expansion of government overreach by the ATF attempting to arbitrarily add things to it illegally. SBR's, short barreled shotguns, and suppressors were added to it despite not being dangerous compared to normal firearms, and suppressors legitimately just being a very useful safety device. The entire thing was based off of demonizing inanimate objects as opposed to the root causes of crime. (Yes I know it's in the dishonorable mentions, I just felt like venting because it makes me mad)
Meh. Most democracies have far more restrictive gun laws than the US and do not suffer whatever imagined horrors or dooms are evoked any time gun restrictions are brought up here. "Inanimate objects" should be restricted and controlled in direct proportion to the collective danger and harm they pose to society. As guns, trucks and chemicals have become more deadly with time, so too should the control of them increase.
@@nev12345678910 Gun rights are conditional and the militia is no longer necessary for the security of a free state. 2A is the only right worded this way and read in conjunction with Article 1 Section 8, it is obvious that the state was very much intended to regulate and control guns. Still, the wording of 2A is poor. I'd add it the list of worst laws.
The worst laws I can think of off the top of my head are The Fugitive Slave Act and Defense of Marriage Act. If Prohibition counts (that was a Constitutional Amendment) then I’ll include that too. Oh, and the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Teaching history for 22 years, legit list, my order would be a little different but the same laws. suggestions for countdown videos: Most impactful American people. I assume doing the worst list might be easier but nice to have some that aren't all negative. Thank you for all your work I do enjoy the videos.
@@pengiunanimatorguy Am I crazy or do all those sound relatively reasonable. I mean a horse can’t be held to laws but a rider should definitely try to follow traffic laws. Glue sniffing is super dangerous. No Happy hour is odd but I suppose incentives binge drinking during the hour opposed to pacing. And teaching a monkey to smoke for entertainment is super unethical, I’m assuming that’s what that references and I know people do occasionally teach monkeys to smoke as like a “circus act” of sorts because people find it comical.
A double whammy from 1890 was the McKinley Tariff and Sherman Silver Purchase Act. The latter allowed the government to buy silver with certificates that could be redeemed for either silver or gold. This lead to a rush on gold reserves that led to the Panic of 1893. Basically, the government was issuing money at the same time the gold that backed it was disappearing.
Mr. Beat, I understand why you wouldn't be affected by the Naturalization act, but for other immigrants like me, it is a HUGE wall to climb over to officially become a citizen, smh.
@@vantaplat7411 ah yes making legal immigration harder, that is the best path forward. not like the entire entity of this nation was founded upon by immigrants but ya know i guess you right.
This was a very good video. I hope that you will do more videos like this, about the "Dishonorable Mentions" that you listed in the description. That way, you can go into some details about why those laws were bad.
Let's face it. #1-10 are the worst of the worst. Some of the other really bad ones mentioned in the comments would easily be #11-20. Just goes to show how many really bad ones there are.
The Patriot Act should at least be an honorable mention. But 1 law you should have included was “No Child Left Behind”. I might be bias because it affected me and tons of other students around the country. This law was terrible and I hated taking those god dam tests!
No. I would call it a disproportional response but far from genocide. Remember that Hamas would like to destroy Israel & annihilate the Jewish people, but do not have the means to. Israel DOES have the means to destroy the West Bank and Gaza and commit genocide against Palestinian Arabs throughout their many conflicts, but hasn’t. That speaks a lot about their intentions. I agree that it’s not fair, or that their responses are disproportionate, and that Israel goes to far with their settlements in the West Bank, but I don’t think it’s true to call it a genocide.
@@joelboutier1736I feel your response is at least a little disingenuous because of the fact that even if the ties to the land justify attacking hamas and taking land to gain is still overlooking the overwhelming fact that 35k people have died and thousands others harmed and displaced. To consider this as a fair decision to harm this many innocents just to finally destroy a terrorist group is NOT justifiable. And through the Oxford Dictionary definition of genocide “The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular race or nation…” if you say that this never deliberate for the thousands who have lost their homes, families, and access to food. Israel has always had the ability to incorporate and let others of different religions be allowed to be apart of their nation, before the nation was even known as Israel many Christians, Jews, and Muslims lived in the holy land with no tensions between them. If it is their right to the land why did they slaughter the civilians before getting any of their hostages back or members of Hamas killed en masse before an ethnic cleansing was committed on thousands on civilians (children and mothers included) that were not supportive of the decision on October 7th. Please understand I don’t say this to guilt you or cause harm, this decision of the Israeli government wasn’t justified.
@Muscleman456 i see thank you. If i recall correctly the patriot act is the one that allows to the government to invade privacy under investigation in some cases?
I love your videos and I always look forward to new uploads. The 1986 drug bill, 1994 crime bill and 1996 welfare to work act don't get enough hatred. They all collectively destroyed poor communities in the United States. Millions of kids, myself included, grew up in horrible poverty because of those laws. Derelict housing, cheap disgusting food, going hungry some nights, utilities getting shut off, low quality schools, poor medical care, etc. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. I see these laws as attempts by conservative Republicans to suppress the vote of anyone who might politically oppose them. African Americans & Hispanics tend to vote Democrat, so if you throw them in jail for drug offenses, they can't vote (unless you live in Maine or Vermont). It's because of these bills I will always support strong welfare programs, drug legalization, and Keynesian economics. I am staunchly opposed to austerity. It's also why I will never vote Republican until my dying breath. I cannot and will not forgive them for the harsh childhood they inflicted on me. Their conservative social policy & Austrian economics ruined my childhood.
How did they destroy poor communities? Welfare and Keynesian economics don't work and drugs killed the black communities. I seriously doubt you had a bad childhood. Austrian Economics is the way to go
@@night6724 You're completely wrong. Welfare works, it lifts people out of poverty. Police brutality and systemic racism ruined poor black communities. The Reagan administration smuggled cocaine into the country and spread it around black communities. Austrian economics lead to inequality. Rich get richer, poor get poorer.
@@night6724 Keynesian economics work, Austrian doesn't. Austrian leads to inequality, welfare lifts people out of poverty. Police brutality hurts black communities. The Reagan administration distributed the drugs.
@@night6724 Absolutely not. Austrian economics has never been proven to include the scientific method - and a lack of regulation almost always leads to a disaster.
I went to rural California schools in the late '60's and '70's. Most of this kind of history was passed right over. I didn't learn about the Trail of Tears until I was in college. We need to do better. You, Mr. Beat, are doing better.
For what it’s worth I think we are doing better, bit by bit atleast. I went to high school in a relatively rural part of Pennsylvania in the early 2010s, and a lot of the less than savory parts of American history were in the curriculum, and even more of the niche topics were discussed by some of my teachers on their own just cause they felt it right to atleast mention.
@@lukem21 I'm around the same age and I had a teacher mention the patriot act. for what its worth US history should be at least 2 years. We had world history and that was just ancient history and while important, I feel US history is more vital to students today. Everything post 1945 was just glanced over
I am not American, and generally not interested in politics and laws (other than needing to follow a few). Yet, this video was very informative. Keep this sort of information flowing. Thanks
Major laws you overlooked are: 1. the Muslim Ban (2018) passed by Trump 2. The extension of copyright ("Mickey Mouse Act") passed in 1998 by Clinton 3. The 22nd Amendment (1947) passed by Truman 4. Executive Order 9066 (1941) passed by FDR 5. The Acts segregating the public service (1910s) passed by Wilson.
I don't think 3 and 4 count as it's an Amendment and an Executive Order respectively, rather than a Congress approved Federal Law. 1, 2 and specially 5 are indeed God awful though.
What is so bad, terrible about extending copyright for another 20 years? Or about a president not being able to serve more than 2 terms (Truman didn't support that)?
@@suarezguy Considering that Mega Corporations have took massive advantage of that in order to destroy competition, employment, gain power, and stifle technological/creative advancements, solidifying the power and control the Mega Corps have over citizens, should be enough
@@suarezguy The copyright one extends the rule to cover a work even after the maker of movie/ author is dead. It is life of the author after publication + 70 years after death of the author. It makes no sense to extend a work past the death of the person who made the work. The term limits rule is bad because what happens if we have another FDR type figure emerges from the Dems that does immeasurable good the country would be kneecapped by the term limits. Just look at the Trump administration they tried to overturn ACA, which is a step in the right direction for the States to catch up to the rest of developed world (universal, single payer healthcare).
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Thanks for watching! Which laws did I forget to include?
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Dishonorable mentions:
Tariff of Abominations
Embargo Act of 1807
PATRIOT Act
No Child Left Behind Act
Comstock Laws
Emergency Quota Act
Espionage Act
Sedition Act of 1918
Immigration Act of 1924
Indian Civilization Act
Public Law 503
Tariff of 1824
Tariff of 1842
McKinley Tariff
Force Bill
The Tenure of Office Act
Platt Amendment
Immigration Act of 1903
Immigration Act of 1918
Harrison Narcotics Tax Act
The Jones Act
Emergency Quota Act
Central Intelligence Agency Act
Protect America Act
National Firearms Act
Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984
Anti-Drug Act of 1986
1994 Crime Bill
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act
The Telecommunications Act of 1996
Defense of Marriage Act
The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq of 2002
And for those asking, of my Worst 10 list, the Alien Enemies Act of the Alien and Sedition Acts
and The Authorization for use of Military Force of 2001 are technically the only two laws still in effect today.
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Don't companies legally buy our info too?
EO 9066 was thematically on point. It imprisoned roughly 80,000 US citizens and 40k legal permanent residents because of Japanese ancestry for the duration of WW2. Small numbers of German and Italian non-legal residents were likewise incarcerated. The law/EO was famously upheld by the Supreme Court (another list idea!).
EO Schedule F, though I understand the list's criteria so it makes sense
The agricultural adjustment act is an underrated law that should have gotten a mention in the video or the description.
I think the PATRIOT Act should've made this list. In my eyes, it was one of the greatest affronts to the first amendment our government has ratified. It disrespected the tenets of our justice system such as being innocent until proven guilty and having a right to privacy
@vacuumgaze5277 pretty sure my library checkouts bring relatively anti imperialism in the aftermath of the AUMF got me on a list thanks to the patriot act.
Before watching I thought it would be
Definitely gotta be #11, too many overtly racist laws and ones related to escalating foreign conflicts for Patriot Act to be on here.
@@CthonicWisdomobama was the guy who increased the power breadth and scope of the patriot act.....was it racist?
@dapv144 the Patriot Act is the intersection between the War on Crime/Drugs and the War on Terror. Terrorism gave lawmakers the excuse to be tougher on crime leading to a continuation of pre-existing crime policy that disproportionately surveiled and prosecuted Black and Brown communities. This process of surveillance for these communities was not created by an evil white cabal, but instead by majority white lawmakers who wanted to impose social control over groups they deemed as threats. Many Black lawmakers rose to power on the back of this crime policy for a multitude of reasons. Simply because Obama is Black does not make the disproportionate targeting of Black and brown communities by law enforcement aided by the Patriot Act less racist.
Hot take: I support good laws and dislike bad laws
You're a genius
What kind of horrible opinion is this?
Revolutionary how did you even think of it 🤯
so hot... oh my... OHHH THAT'S SO HOT aeugh OHHHHH
How horrid! Bad laws are good laws what do you mean!
Homer to Bart: The worst 10 Federal Laws *So Far!*
lol
@@iammrbeat, don't laugh, have you seen some of the proposed laws that have failed? They sadly keep coming back again and again, like a bad case of herpes, which oddly can describe many terrible politicians who keep getting re-elected! 😝
The way the Government acts these days I'm sure there are worse to come
You think it’ll get worse than literal gen0cide?
lol so true especially with this insane and unqualified "Supreme" court we have right now
Being a resident of Indiana, I'd _love_ to see a "Worst 10 Indiana Laws in History" video. The list of dishonorable mentions alone would be hilarious.
lol
As a fellow resident of Indiana, I would also like to see this. This state’s crazy.
@@-Vannah- as someone who covers Indiana laws and policies for their job, I agree
Your state came pretty close to banning bus lanes 😂 And light rail is illegal
Dishonorable mention goes to the Indiana Pi Bill! It did pass a house of the general assembly!
Hey Mr. Beat, I'm 22 years old and from the Netherlands. I am watching your videos for years now, and I just want to thank you for everything I learned from you about the (political) history of the United States. As a political junky and history-nerd who is fascinated by the USA, you are just the perfect teacher for that. Keep going with it! Greetings, Tobias.
Heb je al een "top10 beste en/of slechtste presidenten" lijstje? Anders doe je niet mee. lol ....ik werk nog aan de mijne... grt
@@ezandman6804 Ik zat toevallig onlangs weer te kijken, en ik heb 2 jaar geleden een top tier list gemaakt met presidenten die ik kan inschatten haha. Maar ik zag dat ik best toe ben aan een update op dat gebied, dus ik wil in aanloop naar de presidentsverkiezingen wel weer een nieuwe maken. 👌
@@tobiasdenhollander3210 ....ja daar begint t al bij mij: "De tier list". Ik vind dat maar niets om ze in te delen in groepjes. Ik zie persoonlijk gewoon liever een "harde" ranking van boven naar beneden. Gelukkig vind ik pre civilwar interessant dus die presidenten snap ik een klein beetje maar rond 1900 en daarvoor is nog steeds dikke mist bij mij, moet ik aan werken. En ja Mr. Beat helpt daarbij. Ik hing ook een tijdje bij VTH rond maar die kerel blijft me soms iets teveel hangen in "reactie nivo" en "militairisme" spreekt me ook minder aan. Beat daarentegen is altijd welkom.
Timestamps
#10: The Alien and Sedition Acts - 2:54
#9: The Authorization for Use of Military Force of 2001 - 4:21
#8: The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act - 5:40
#7: The Controlled Substances Act - 7:43
#6: The Kansas-Nebraska Act - 8:49
#5: The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - 9:57
#4: The Chinese Exclusion Act - 11:25
#3: The Fugitive Slave Act - 12:33
#2: The Dawes Act - 13:49
#1: The Indian Removal Act - 15:10
Thanks!
My money was on fugitive being #1
Thank you for your service.
Number 10 should be at 2:54, otherwise correct.
@@iammrbeat pin this comment please! 🙏
When the Alien and Sedition Acts are bringing up the rear you know you’re in for a doozy 😅
Ikr??
That was my reaction. I heard that and knew we were in for some brutal laws to come.
That was just the appetizer, to probe the absurdities of these American laws
@@iammrbeat I feel the fact that the Alien Friends Act made it into the US Code should be mentioned, because it is the only one of the four acts to survive.
@@iammrbeat Mr Beast I'm a big fan PLIS Money im poor
I hope everyone remembers how Rep Barbara Lee was raked over the coals for being the one vote against the AUMF. She was called a traitor, a terrorist sympathizer, she and her family were threatened. But her reasoning against the bill was so rational, so *patriotic*
@@bridgecross No it wasn’t. She wasn’t patriotic. She hates america. She is traitor and terrorist sympathizer.
@@bridgecross Barbara Lee is a PoS human being
@@bridgecross Barbra Lee is a horrible person
@@bridgecross Yeah no Barbra Lee is a terrible human being and a traitor. She hates america
@@night6724Why did you reply 4 times to say the same thing over and over?
the espionage act still has negative ramifications to this day so i think it should've been on the list
Fair point. It was pretty darn close to making it.
I get the need for an espionage act, but the way it was written and the way it has been used often flirts with unconstitutionality.
@@kingace6186a lot of laws that made Mr. Beat's top 10 or dishonorable mentions were either genuine attempts to solve a problem that went horribly wrong (Every Child Left Behind), or explained to the public in a way that sounded benevolent and humane (Dawes act).
It's sad that a lot more good stuff could have happened if people read the fine print and decided to edit it.
Thank you so much for calling the Indian Removal Act an act of genocide. It really isn't talked about like that here in the south and for young people being able to hear you accurately present history is so important. Keep up the good work!
Indians refused to join the united states and wanted their own sovereignty, so they got expelled. Should we accept foreign invaders?
What?!! Where in the south do you live? It's been taught as genocide here in Alabama at least since I was in school in the 90s. I'm sorry, don't answer where you live. That was inappropriate for me to ask, I'm just so horrified that's taught differently anywhere in America!
Great video Beat
Thank you!
@@iammrbeatThis has really got your last video beat...beat.
I feel like the controlled substances act is one of the worst pieces of legislation in us history, its caused millions of peoples lives to be ruined and countless people killed and created a huge divide between police and citizens. It also has made usa a prison state with the highest incarceration rate in the world
The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq of 2002 should be on this list, given that the Iraq War was an unjustified war and a geopolitical disaster.
True!
@@iammrbeat The 1991 Iraq AUMF is still in effect as well, as is one from the 1950s for Lebanon.
That was one of the worst, both the going to war and the claiming of No We didn't support it, We authorized it but didn't think it would actually happen like that ... without the conditions that we didn't make conditions ...
@@luddite4change449 wasn’t it revoked within the last year?
@@silverfishofdoom1312 The Senate voted to repeal it, but it didn't make it into the final passed bill.
You should make a video about the 10 BEST federal laws ever passed in US history.
Most have been repealed.......like Glass/Stiegal...
@@benmurawski #1 would probably be the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
@@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty, just like the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to our Constitution?
@@benmurawski Those are amendments rather than just LAWS, like the Civil Rights Act.
@@matthewgarrison-perkins5377 glass stegel was awful
You're not the worst, Mr. Beat. There's a worse one that has an 's' between the 'a' and the 't'
Yeah , the laws made against the slaves and Native Americans should be among the worst in American history but laws made in the last three and a half years under the Biden administration should also be in the top 10
Mr beat should consider starting a series going over history of each state. Indiana has a wild history that more people should talk about.
You could've done a top 30 and barely touched the surface!
Pretty much
@@iammrbeat can you do best and worst laws since WW2 ended
@@iammrbeat Worst Laws for Every State series?
My wife was a history major when we studied at Humboldt State (now Cal Poly Humboldt) in California back in 2018. On orientation day for the history majors, a Chinese history professor opened with "You probably have a lot of questions about this area, such as, why are there no Chinese restaurants around here? The answer is that **all** Chinese people were expelled from the county in the 1880s, and Chinese folk are understandably hesitant to move back". The Humboldt County business board advertised in 1890 that the county was "the only county in the state containing no Chinamen". (yikes) To this day, Asians and Asian-Americans (with the exception of a Hmong community) are a much smaller proportion of the population in Humboldt County than you might expect for a coastal California county. (If you're curious for more, "1885 Chinese expulsion from Eureka" has a bit more info.)
I remember learning about that and being reminded of just how long lasting the effects of policies can really be, even far after they've officially ended. It's always something to keep in mind when we talk about helping those negatively impacted by acts like these, just undoing the act is a first, tiny step in the process.
10:25 "and the whole Vietnam thing was BASED"
Clip it and ship it! Ladies and gentlemen, we got him! 😂
I just did a double-take at that while cooking dinner right now hahaha. Like Damn Mr Beat. Okay lol
I knew about your channel for a while but I'm now huge into your history videos than ever before. I love the way things are explained and are easy and entertaining to follow.
i accidentally misspelled mr beast and this dude popped up, best search of my life
Honestly this video is one of the reasons I hate what we are/were. It seems like some stuff from the 1800s is still lingering and nothing has been done to stop it.. namely the racism
This is why we must be taught about the bad as much as the good (if not more).
“How can slavery still be affecting people, that was a long time ago?”
“Like how people still idolize that failed slaver’s revolt from 160 years ago.”
“Oh…”
It is the reality of the people of the country. Government is ONLY the shadow of the people. That is the reason why those institutions still exist.
Really? NOTHING has been done to stop racism? 💀
@@warlordofbritanniaBecause there are elites that still enslave people tonthis very day. In 1808 slavery was outlawed but social exceptance is the reason it was practiced. In 1865, slavery was (abolished) only because the working poor at the time couldn't afford to buy, and have slaves. The civil was had NOTHING to do with slavery at all. After the war, the land owners became government electorate and employees to make policies to keep those that were slaves, subjugated to this very day through: religion, economics, social, and education. These are the forces that keep racism in affect today.
Lets not forget The American Service-Members' Protection Act or also known as "The Hague Invasion Act". Which enables the president of the U.S. "to use all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any person described in subsection (b) who is being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court". Because The US doesn't like when its soldiers are judged for their war crimes.
I think it hasn't had (direct) effect so far, so it's behind those on this list.
@@vantaplat7411 Why would you want to protect war criminals?
@@vantaplat7411 Very few people, understandably, really support world government overall, pretty few people even really support strong forms of world government-like bodies.
@@vantaplat7411 If an American (or anyone for that matter) commits a crime *abroad,* they might get prosecuted abroad. That's how it generally works. Citizenship of a country does not mean that only that country's courts could handle the prosecution if the crime happens somewhere else. If e.g. a Chinese person came to the US and committed a crime, no one would accept the argument that only Chinese courts could prosecute him.
@@vantaplat7411 "they can be tried by the country the commit the crime in"
I don't see how that would be essentially different from that country handing them over to the ICC if that country happens to be a party to the Rome Statute. And other countries that are parties to the Rome Statute can surely assist.
"And these arent just any normal people."
Being a soldier doesn't grant one some kind of special immunity against prosecution for war crimes nor some kind of restriction that only their country of origin could prosecute them.
i’m finishing up my last history class in undergrad and have to write part of my essay on the kansas-nebraska, and fugitive slave, and indian removal acts. such awful stains on our countries history, but i really appreciate you bringing attention to these grotesque laws! love u mr beat!!!!
Fugitive Slave Act was fine
@night6724 at least you tell the world what you're about. I hope you're as brave in person.
@@LordScrambles1 What other solution was there?
@@LordScrambles1 Also Indian removal act was good
@@night6724 Alternative? Don't enslave people. Or at least allow freed men to keep their freedom. Or are you suggesting slavery in general wasn't bad?
I am not even American but because of Mrbeat,
I know more about the US than my own country.
Mr. Beat > Mr. Beast
No dude Mr beat is way better than beast at least he's not a criminal
@@Stormi-d2qyou do realize that’s what he said right?
I wasn’t expecting to be called out right at the one minute mark haha
Is your name Indiana or are you from Indiana? :)
@@iammrbeatyes
Which Indiana law is it? :(
@@dylanc6856just Indiana in general
@@theprime6439 as an ohioan, we need to annex Indiana. And then Michigan. Then the rest of the nation, except Florida. Florida gets to remain cause they're almost as weird as us.
I MISSED the last upload. I will never forgive myself. Today I redeem myself as Mr Beat’s BIGGEST (casual, free) FAN 💪‼️
You are forgiven. 😄
Hey, Mr. Beat! I'm a big fan since I was grade 11 and now I'm a college student taking BA Political Economy in the Philippines, and I appreciate you always making this informative videos!
That's awesome. I appreciate you sticking around! Best of luck with your educational pursuits.
@@iammrbeat thank u so much!! i hope u make more informative, funny, and engaging videos!!
btw i wish u could do a top 10 BEST and WORST executive orders like the EO 13769 (the Muslim Ban) or EO 9066 (Relocation of Japanese to Internment Camps)
Haven’t watched it yet but I’m calling that the Chinese exclusion act is top three
Are you kidding me
Unlike MrBeast, your content is educational and you are a good person
Laws should be designed to protect the rights and freedoms of all citizens.
I agree
Sadly, most Republicans today completely disagree on the idea of rights. They actively try to roll back civil rights. They don't understand the difference between positive & negative freedom. The freedom from interference and freedom to do as you please respectively.
Getting back into my history teacher swing watching your videos, happy to see a new drop
Curious to hear your thoughts!
@iammrbeat about the channel? I think it's one the best I've seen in terms of being informative and unbiased. In terms of the video I very much agree that our worst laws are the racially motivated laws with lasting effects that our kids need to know about. Although I actually did learn to hate the War on Drugs a little more because of this video lol
@@braydenhall1718despite conservative nerds saying mr beat is a leftist 😂😂
Ah yes “any normal history teacher that presents information, and doesnt present it in my pragerU format of conservative propaganda revisionist history, is leftisti”
@@piggy8761 gotta love it. I have definitely gotten my fair share of wild accusations for doing such radical things as teaching that the Civil War was fought over slavery lol
@@braydenhall1718 the “free and open ideas” side
Federalist society implants although they may not be writing history books and teaching history, they get to be on courts
As a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, I have to concur with this list.
As a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, I concur also.
I’ve recently stumbled upon your videos and I couldn’t quite place why but you’ve always reminded me of my World History teacher from high school. Finding out you’re actually a teacher makes so much sense!
Incredible video as always! Hopefully this list is complete, and no new ones are added in the future...
Also, I'd love to see a video about third parties and their history! I love how you talk about them in the Presidential election videos, and would love to see it expanded!
All the best!
"Hopefully this list is complete." No kidding. Well put! Regarding your suggestion, I've already done this for multiple third parties. The Whig Party, Free Soil Party, etc. :)
Killing it like always Sir Beat!
Thank you :)
@@iammrbeat Congratulations on your promotion!
Good shit. Needed u as a history teacher fr
That was great! You are a fantastic teacher. Videos like this make me miss my teachers.
Just want to say big Thank You to Mr.Beat. ive watched so many of your videos and have learned a lot more than my High School History class has taught me. I know these take a lot of time and hard work. Just want to let you know to are greatly appreciated
National Firearms Act for criminalizing things just for the not rich.
Another crappy law!
@@iammrbeat Based Mr. Beat.
The rich skirt pretty much all gun laws, as do police.
@@vanquish421 The police are a necessary exception, and they only issue them as needed.
Are you saying bribery is rampant with gun sales? If that's true, that's something that needs a large scale investigation as soon as possible, although it's a separate issue compared to gun laws themselves.
@Compucles No, wrong. Police are not a higher class of Americans, and therefore, all gun laws constitutionally apply to them.
The fugitive slave act created extra territoriality in which free states couldn’t extricate themselves from the responsibility to enforce slavery within slave states. Alongside this, the irony in the contradiction between a revolution for liberty and the existence of slavery exacerbated racism in that it reinforced the idea that slaves were inherently incapable of exercising those natural rights of citizenship (in the same way children don’t have adult rights). I think about this often, makes you look at reconstruction in a different light.
I just serioused.
(Also hoping for a mr Beat video on reconstruction)
*Humans can be so silly*
In the context of this video. Please be more straightforward when you say "humans".
Thanks Mr. Beat for keeping me sane this election season. Your videos are consistently good
Great video! I would love a video on the best federal laws in American history.
A video on worst executive orders in American history could be great too. Although you already made a video on the following topic, executive Order 9066 (which incarcerated Japanese Americans in internment camps) comes to mind.
So crazy! I just heard these 1798 laws mentioned by trump today!
Just for a bit of extra research for y'all, look up The Long Walk (might need to add "Navajo" to your search as people are using that name for other stuff lately). It happened a little over 30 years after the Indian Removal Act, and lead to the death of around 3,000 Navajo people. Its impact is still felt by the Navajo to this day, and I know the Trail of Tears and Long Walk were not isolated instances of removal and relocation in this country. It's important to learn the history of your nation, including the bloody and brutal parts.
you should do The ten worst Supreme Court Decisions next
Well done on tackling this mature historical topic Mr Beat!
Can’t wait for more stuff
Love the content Mr. Beat! Could you maybe do a video on the 10 best federal laws in U.S. history next?
11:51 IS THAT A VAPE CLOUD? I'M SCARED.
You didn’t mention the fact that under the Fugitive Slave Law a judge was paid twice as much for finding that an African American was a fugitive slave than they were paid for finding that he/she was actually free. That alone moves this up on the list for me.
Let’s gooooo new Mr Beat video🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks for being here early!
As someone from Indiana who was directly affected by some of the recent laws, I felt so vindicated when you said that.
Quick correction: the United States no longer has the highest incarceration rate of any country. Several other countries, most notably El Salvador, have surpassed it
All of these are shameful, but I thought you'd include the measures the FDR government took against the Japanese during WWII, imprisoning them in camps and confiscating their property.
Executive order, not law.
@@keithjackewicz8423 Ah, thank for clarifying that. I never knew.
We should make a law that makes Mr. Beat America’s Emperor
NO MORE KINGS, but that's flattering
@@iammrbeat Wait what if you did a video on Emperor Norton?
@@iammrbeat "No more kings" - That's what the Romans said at the end of their Republican era. Previously, at the end of the Roman Kingdom, they had overthrown their last king, who was named "SuperBus" (ha). Nonetheless, the Republic eventually became excessively dysfunctional, and Augustus became "First Citizen" (euphemism for "emperor"; the word "king" continued to have a negative connotation through the Imperial Era). I kinda feel like the United States might be in the same place in its history as Rome was at the end of its Republic. The British monarchy during the colonial period is analogous to the old Roman Kingdom. The Constitution of the Roman Republic was no longer able to solve the problems which the Republic faced, so necessarily, ineluctably, it was replaced with something else.
@@thebiscuitguy646America's first documented lolcow.
“This is not going to be easy”, said She to herself about you and me and inadvertently herself
So deep
This is the most Mr.Beat video concept of all
Another great video. Thanks neighbor! I love when you mention LFK.
#0: National Firearms Act
Did nothing to change violent crime, restricted hundreds of millions from exercising their rights by directly infringing on them, and was a vessel for expansion of government overreach by the ATF attempting to arbitrarily add things to it illegally. SBR's, short barreled shotguns, and suppressors were added to it despite not being dangerous compared to normal firearms, and suppressors legitimately just being a very useful safety device. The entire thing was based off of demonizing inanimate objects as opposed to the root causes of crime.
(Yes I know it's in the dishonorable mentions, I just felt like venting because it makes me mad)
Meh. Most democracies have far more restrictive gun laws than the US and do not suffer whatever imagined horrors or dooms are evoked any time gun restrictions are brought up here. "Inanimate objects" should be restricted and controlled in direct proportion to the collective danger and harm they pose to society. As guns, trucks and chemicals have become more deadly with time, so too should the control of them increase.
@@gunkulator1you don’t have a constitutional right to a truck or chemicals
Yeah, it's pretty bad
@@nev12345678910 Gun rights are conditional and the militia is no longer necessary for the security of a free state. 2A is the only right worded this way and read in conjunction with Article 1 Section 8, it is obvious that the state was very much intended to regulate and control guns. Still, the wording of 2A is poor. I'd add it the list of worst laws.
Without COPPA, this list is incomplete. That thing is both ineffective and unconstitutional.
@@newmanturbo5975 but it’s not worse than any of these
The worst laws I can think of off the top of my head are The Fugitive Slave Act and Defense of Marriage Act.
If Prohibition counts (that was a Constitutional Amendment) then I’ll include that too.
Oh, and the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Yeah the Constitution was off limits for this list, including the amendments. I should have clarified this in the video.
defense of marriage act was good
@@livingmaze3094 Nah, bad law as it overtly discriminated on the basis of sex.
@@gunkulator1 no it defended marriage
@@livingmaze3094 Nope, it did nothing but stop Same-Sex people from being Married. Which is a bad thing
Mrbeat the type of guy to expose the us government with a top 10 video
Teaching history for 22 years, legit list, my order would be a little different but the same laws.
suggestions for countdown videos: Most impactful American people. I assume doing the worst list might be easier but nice to have some that aren't all negative. Thank you for all your work I do enjoy the videos.
Mr Beat has aura😮
I think they would make a law in how old a president can be
Whew, there are some real doozies over the years. I like the idea of more top 10 lists!
Right on. Thanks for the feedback!
Well done, Mr. Beat! Thanks for organizing it so well and good picks
I would love to see you do a video like this for every state.
How did you rank these? Like, did you mostly decide on the amount of harm it did, or was it more of how dangerous these laws were?
A mixture of both those. That made it especially tricky.
New law idea: Matt Beat becomes emperor for life
1:06 I’m from Indiana and when I tell you I just KNEW you’d call us out on the crazy state laws I mean it 😭
Well I still love Indiana. I was just there a few months ago and loved my time there.
Which laws?
Horses must stop at traffic lights
No glue sniffing
Happy hour is illegal
Monkey smokers are forbidden
Etc
@@pengiunanimatorguy Happy Hour is legal again! We _occasionally_ get things right.
@@pengiunanimatorguy Am I crazy or do all those sound relatively reasonable. I mean a horse can’t be held to laws but a rider should definitely try to follow traffic laws. Glue sniffing is super dangerous. No Happy hour is odd but I suppose incentives binge drinking during the hour opposed to pacing. And teaching a monkey to smoke for entertainment is super unethical, I’m assuming that’s what that references and I know people do occasionally teach monkeys to smoke as like a “circus act” of sorts because people find it comical.
A double whammy from 1890 was the McKinley Tariff and Sherman Silver Purchase Act. The latter allowed the government to buy silver with certificates that could be redeemed for either silver or gold. This lead to a rush on gold reserves that led to the Panic of 1893. Basically, the government was issuing money at the same time the gold that backed it was disappearing.
You are the best thing in Kansas, Mr. Beat. I live in the Cherokee Nation and we don't use $20 bills with Jackson here.
We need some interesting U.S. Olympic History right now with the opening ceremonies taking place.
The Cynical Historian has a great Olympics history video
1. The US sends those Commie bast..., I mean the USSR back home to mommy.
Drunk driving should be legal
based
Mr. Beat, I understand why you wouldn't be affected by the Naturalization act, but for other immigrants like me, it is a HUGE wall to climb over to officially become a citizen, smh.
Literally or figuratively? 😅
Kidding, I’m not an immigrant but I totally agree with you.
I'm sorry to hear that. I definitely would support legislation to make it easier to immigrate here. We desperately need immigrants.
@@vantaplat7411 ah yes making legal immigration harder, that is the best path forward. not like the entire entity of this nation was founded upon by immigrants but ya know i guess you right.
@@vantaplat7411 European settlers*
@@iammrbeat Why desperately?
I would have chosen the same act for #1 😢 Also, very good to see the Telecommunication Act of 1996 in your dishonorable mentions!
This was a very good video. I hope that you will do more videos like this, about the "Dishonorable Mentions" that you listed in the description. That way, you can go into some details about why those laws were bad.
Haven’t watched yet but guessing the Sedition Acts (from both Adams and Wilson) will be mentioned.
Willsoooonnnnnnn!!!!!
Let's face it. #1-10 are the worst of the worst. Some of the other really bad ones mentioned in the comments would easily be #11-20. Just goes to show how many really bad ones there are.
The Patriot Act should at least be an honorable mention. But 1 law you should have included was “No Child Left Behind”. I might be bias because it affected me and tons of other students around the country. This law was terrible and I hated taking those god dam tests!
Both of those laws are indeed dishonorable mentions!
I doubt you or the country would have really done better without taking tests, without seeing whether or not there was learning and gaining of skills.
I'd like to see a Top 10 Best Federal Laws. I think it's important to also bring up laws that DID help people in anyway.
Very rarely do I watch a video I agree with 100% but this is one of them
16:21 isn’t what Israel has been doing genocide
No. I would call it a disproportional response but far from genocide. Remember that Hamas would like to destroy Israel & annihilate the Jewish people, but do not have the means to. Israel DOES have the means to destroy the West Bank and Gaza and commit genocide against Palestinian Arabs throughout their many conflicts, but hasn’t. That speaks a lot about their intentions. I agree that it’s not fair, or that their responses are disproportionate, and that Israel goes to far with their settlements in the West Bank, but I don’t think it’s true to call it a genocide.
@@joelboutier1736I feel your response is at least a little disingenuous because of the fact that even if the ties to the land justify attacking hamas and taking land to gain is still overlooking the overwhelming fact that 35k people have died and thousands others harmed and displaced. To consider this as a fair decision to harm this many innocents just to finally destroy a terrorist group is NOT justifiable. And through the Oxford Dictionary definition of genocide “The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular race or nation…” if you say that this never deliberate for the thousands who have lost their homes, families, and access to food. Israel has always had the ability to incorporate and let others of different religions be allowed to be apart of their nation, before the nation was even known as Israel many Christians, Jews, and Muslims lived in the holy land with no tensions between them. If it is their right to the land why did they slaughter the civilians before getting any of their hostages back or members of Hamas killed en masse before an ethnic cleansing was committed on thousands on civilians (children and mothers included) that were not supportive of the decision on October 7th. Please understand I don’t say this to guilt you or cause harm, this decision of the Israeli government wasn’t justified.
@@joelboutier1736 how bout Apartheid ? How bout open air prison ?
@@MohamedAhmed0912South Africa has nothing to do with the religious conflicts in the middle east my guy.
@@joelboutier1736The most rational summary I've seen of this yet. Good on ya m8
Man when the patriot act is at NINE you know its gonna be fucked
That wasn’t the Patriot Act is was AUMF another crappy law that’s pretty similar.
@Muscleman456 i see thank you. If i recall correctly the patriot act is the one that allows to the government to invade privacy under investigation in some cases?
I love your videos and I always look forward to new uploads. The 1986 drug bill, 1994 crime bill and 1996 welfare to work act don't get enough hatred. They all collectively destroyed poor communities in the United States. Millions of kids, myself included, grew up in horrible poverty because of those laws. Derelict housing, cheap disgusting food, going hungry some nights, utilities getting shut off, low quality schools, poor medical care, etc. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. I see these laws as attempts by conservative Republicans to suppress the vote of anyone who might politically oppose them. African Americans & Hispanics tend to vote Democrat, so if you throw them in jail for drug offenses, they can't vote (unless you live in Maine or Vermont). It's because of these bills I will always support strong welfare programs, drug legalization, and Keynesian economics. I am staunchly opposed to austerity. It's also why I will never vote Republican until my dying breath. I cannot and will not forgive them for the harsh childhood they inflicted on me. Their conservative social policy & Austrian economics ruined my childhood.
How did they destroy poor communities? Welfare and Keynesian economics don't work and drugs killed the black communities. I seriously doubt you had a bad childhood. Austrian Economics is the way to go
@@night6724 You're completely wrong. Welfare works, it lifts people out of poverty. Police brutality and systemic racism ruined poor black communities. The Reagan administration smuggled cocaine into the country and spread it around black communities. Austrian economics lead to inequality. Rich get richer, poor get poorer.
@@night6724 Keynesian economics work, Austrian doesn't. Austrian leads to inequality, welfare lifts people out of poverty. Police brutality hurts black communities. The Reagan administration distributed the drugs.
@@night6724 Absolutely not. Austrian economics has never been proven to include the scientific method - and a lack of regulation almost always leads to a disaster.
@@night6724 Hard Nah son
my least favourite law is no drinking before 5pm
Nice Indiana shoutout. As a Hoosier, I agree.
Drug addiction should be treated as a disease and not a crime.
I went to rural California schools in the late '60's and '70's. Most of this kind of history was passed right over. I didn't learn about the Trail of Tears until I was in college. We need to do better. You, Mr. Beat, are doing better.
For what it’s worth I think we are doing better, bit by bit atleast. I went to high school in a relatively rural part of Pennsylvania in the early 2010s, and a lot of the less than savory parts of American history were in the curriculum, and even more of the niche topics were discussed by some of my teachers on their own just cause they felt it right to atleast mention.
@@lukem21 I'm around the same age and I had a teacher mention the patriot act. for what its worth US history should be at least 2 years. We had world history and that was just ancient history and while important, I feel US history is more vital to students today. Everything post 1945 was just glanced over
How was the National Firearms Act of 1934 not on this list. It had better be in the top 20. Horrible piece of legislation
I forgot about that one. Yeah I'm not a fan, either.
I am not American, and generally not interested in politics and laws (other than needing to follow a few). Yet, this video was very informative. Keep this sort of information flowing. Thanks
Next Video should definitely be Explaining The Korean War!!
Mr beast
12:58 Mr beat singing the compromise of 1850 will never get old
Major laws you overlooked are:
1. the Muslim Ban (2018) passed by Trump
2. The extension of copyright ("Mickey Mouse Act") passed in 1998 by Clinton
3. The 22nd Amendment (1947) passed by Truman
4. Executive Order 9066 (1941) passed by FDR
5. The Acts segregating the public service (1910s) passed by Wilson.
I don't think 3 and 4 count as it's an Amendment and an Executive Order respectively, rather than a Congress approved Federal Law.
1, 2 and specially 5 are indeed God awful though.
Trump didn't ban muslims. He banned travel from countries that Obama's state Department flagged as potential terrorist supporting countries.
What is so bad, terrible about extending copyright for another 20 years? Or about a president not being able to serve more than 2 terms (Truman didn't support that)?
@@suarezguy Considering that Mega Corporations have took massive advantage of that in order to destroy competition, employment, gain power, and stifle technological/creative advancements, solidifying the power and control the Mega Corps have over citizens, should be enough
@@suarezguy The copyright one extends the rule to cover a work even after the maker of movie/ author is dead. It is life of the author after publication + 70 years after death of the author. It makes no sense to extend a work past the death of the person who made the work.
The term limits rule is bad because what happens if we have another FDR type figure emerges from the Dems that does immeasurable good the country would be kneecapped by the term limits. Just look at the Trump administration they tried to overturn ACA, which is a step in the right direction for the States to catch up to the rest of developed world (universal, single payer healthcare).
Love Mr beat!
Please cover the state laws one day. I would look forward to the series. 😊