Babies are strapped into airplane seats enroute to LAX during “Operation Babylift” with airlifted orphans from Vietnam to the US. April 12, 1975.
This looks dangerous as fuck 😒
ikr? I was thinking how they would not have been secure if the plane crashed only to find out that one of the planes in the operation did crash.
what?!
Most of the babies taken to the United States by “Operation Babylift” were not orphans in the first place; they were children from refugee camps who were fraudulently designated as orphans by American relief workers — most of them with religious affiliations — who believed they’d be “better off” being raised by white Americans.
Operation Reunite is an amazing nonprofit run by Babylift victims which seeks to use DNA testing to find and reconnect with their [birth families] back in Vietnam.
So basically look at this photo of kidnapped babies.
more reasons why Americans adopting foreign children is problematic
(Edited freedominwickedness’s comment about “real families” to birth families.)
The “Better Dead Than Red” Cold War rhetoric that targeted Vietnamese children was an eerie echo of the “Kill the Indian, Save the Child” European settler programs and showed the ultimate priority of Operation Babylift: to neutralize “enemies” of the West.
Adoption standards had already codified with the stolen generations and mass abduction of Romani children over the centuries, but it only industrialized internationally with the wars in Vietnam and Korea, which were the first to become “supply countries” (yes, that is actually adoption terminology). The future generations of these countries (ESPECIALLY the generations born in the direct aftermath of war) were deemed as potentially dangerous to Western occupants (and by extent Western nations), who had terrorized, raped, or murdered so many of their birth parents.
Operation Babylift not only took falsified orphans via “relief” agencies, but also any other children they could find. Falsification was the rule, not the exception. And while white Christian paternalism and arrogance were certainly strong factors, even stronger (if more subtle and lesser known) was a fearful geopolitical agenda advocated even by the most anti-racist Westerners. Pearl S. Buck, Nobel Prize-winning writer and official “enemy of the state” in the U.S. for her vocal opposition of racial segregation, widely encouraged the adoption of Asian war children as politically advantageous to “Western democratic” interests.
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