• @reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net
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    637 months ago

    Well my US public school system spent 75% of history class and 25% of English class on the Holocaust so I’m actually feeling really well prepared for this section, the trick is not to go along with genocide if your country is supporting it

    • @InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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      237 months ago

      Go to school in the south, spend months on the minutiae of 1830s trade law and constitutional construction of enumerated powers, then WHOOP! We’re in 1914, being dragged in to WW1 against our will!

      • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        We’re in 1914, being dragged in to WW1 against our will!

        Honestly, a bit of a canard given how much of a Dixiecrat eugenics loving imperialist shit Woodrow Wilson was.

        Neo-Confederates bit hard on the Zimmerman Telegram and were some of the most enthusiastic WW1 hawks.

        • @DogWater@lemmy.world
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          47 months ago

          The Zimmerman telegram was the story that Germany was trying to convince Mexico to attack the US right? I’m deep in my memory for this one lol

          • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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            27 months ago

            That’s the story, yes. There are a number of still-classified documents surrounding the Zimmerman Telegram that raise a number of questions about how it was obtained and how well it was received.

      • @idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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        67 months ago

        I went to (an otherwise okay, but still a catholic) school in Connecticut and I learned that we won the Vietnam War.

        My dad was the right age, but neither he, nor his close family members or friends (nor my mother’s) were drafted. My friends’ parents were younger, so I didn’t personally know any Vietnam vets well enough for them to talk to me about it, and I didn’t think to doubt it. I didn’t find out until college (it was rightfully embarrassing, I was a libertarian arguing for the USA’s right to “bring democracy” to Iraq).

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      7 months ago

      US public school system spent 75% of history class and 25% of English class on the Holocaust

      How many of your classmates are Zionists? By comparison, how many are enthusiastic about First Nations civil liberties or reparations for Slavery?