Friend just shared this unironically
Posted Apr 18, 2021, 9:29 AM UTC
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I did comment that it was "one hell of a paragraph" in so far as it should be four paragraphs, and therefore was a "hell paragraph."
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“Americans are, of course, to lazy to pay attention in their history classes”
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I think the point was that the history classes were garbage.
But yes eyeroll
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They’re not all that bad. My high school American history teacher was a feminist specializing in the history of gender and sexuality who loved to give us essays asking if we felt women and minorities were underrepresented in history classes. See, some teachers are based!
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Thats kinda odd. I mean remember in our middle and high school texts special sub-chapters about the contributions of women and PoC to the subject.
Crispus Atuck was a promnient physician and free black man who was amongst the Sons of Liberty casualities of the Boston Massacre. I believe his depicted in the classic woodcut of the event. Around 15% of the official ranks of the Continental Army were also PoC. Women were the backbone of the Patriot spy networks. Indeed one woman, whose id has never been revealed, tipped off the Continentals about the state of the Hessians at Trenton. Furthermore that their commanders were offsite and otherwise occupied.
Thats just the stuff off the top of my head about the Revolutionary War.
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Yeah, that’s how I was taught it too (IN TEXAS!). It drives me mad that she had the audacity to teach us history, and then ask us how we thought the history (that we were still learning) should be taught. American history as we teach it now is the story of progressivism as America becomes more tolerant, focusing on progressives and the conservative backlash. We treat the Civil War as the turning point of American history because this is when the slaves were freed, the biggest progressive success in American history. Where in this are minorities underrepresented?
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I do have to agree though, a lot of Americans generally don’t care much for history, literature, stuff like that.
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Yeah, I agree with that. A lot of us have an extremely biased view of history too (such as the tankies among us...) The problem isn’t that we’re brainwashed, it’s that we don’t care.
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Do a lot of anybody?
I remember in college reading a polling stat that around 16% of British students of secondary school age believed Winston Churchill was a mythical figure associated with the Arthurian legends.
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Love when people act like America brainwashes us to look the other way on our atrocities when most people do learn about things like Wounded Knee and how bad slavery actually was and Jim Crow. We could probably do a better job, but still. How much better is it in literally any other country but Germany or something?
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I grew up throughout the 2000s as a kid and we learned all about the shit that happened toward the native Americans, slaves, etc and it was absolutely slanted against America. And I live in a red state (AZ). Anyone who thinks Americans are given a white washed history of our country in schools are out of their minds and out of touch with modern schooling.
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You have more freedom in communism like in Cuba where you can only buy groceries from the government no variety where as here you have many different types of apples 🍎 🍏. You don’t have the freedom to choose you groceries forget about anything else. If you’re talking about Northern Europe they have more capitalism a freer market but really high income taxes to pay for the social programs they don’t have the freedom to choose where their money is spent.
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I mean...there are a lot of American conservatives who think they’re more “free” than social democracies because corporations are more “free” to step on them, I think that’s what they’re trying to get at but idk.
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I mean, both of those are completely untrue.
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I agree that the US government should do a better job at providing utilities and less to the MIC. But to think that Americans have less freedom is ridiculous, other countries may be happier but that doesn’t make them more free. It just means that they have luxuries, in Germany and Denmark, the same countries this guy listed you can get in trouble for “hate speech” but what and who constitutes hate speech? Regardless both the US and European countries have large degrees of freedom and opportunity other people can only dream off.
I am from Denmark, you can get arrested for being racist. While i think being racist is stupid you should not be arrested for it.
Exactly. My question and everybody’s question is “what are hate speech laws” and “who determines them?” Someday what’s acceptable now may not be acceptable when other leaders are in charge. Or what’s not acceptable now will be acceptable in the future.