• FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
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      If history is taught correctly, they will know that Americans of today are propagandized to hell by the capitalist oligarchs who are fighting tooth and nail to maintain the hierarchy. That the coercive structure of the capitalist system left people alienated and disenfranchised and largely unable to overcome the sea of misinformation designed to isolate and divide communities.

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    Guessing it will be called The Stupid Ages, or maybe The Antichrist Years, depending on who is in charge.

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    Optimistic of you to be so sure they’ll be studying history at all in the future.

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    It’s an outrageously optimistic hope of mine that there will be any students around to study history

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    Trump is trying to make it easier for history students by deleting all mention of racism and other forms of discrimination

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    All you young ones just wait until you get corrected in twenty years by someone like you because they didn’t live it and think they know more about it than you.

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    So… the US president was part of a child eating cult-like sex trafficking net that was actually managed by moSS*d. Countries around the world that stump into that information used it to blackmail him.

    At one point, the info got partially leaked, but he was kept in power for some reason.

    First: that wont ever make it to a history book

    Second: i wonder how many times things like this happened… this cabt be the first one

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      First: that wont ever make it to a history book

      It probably will, it’s too relevant to be left out. It will just not be explained in that plain language, because people care about protecting children from the raw character of historical figures.

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    I might suggest that rather than saying people are dumb for having made certain decisions, that we should ask ourselves how the opinions that led to those decisions were formed. There are always external factors acting on and influencing our agency.

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    My high school US history class spent like two weeks on the revolutionary war, half a class on everything that happened up to the civil war, two or three weeks on the civil war, half a class on the rest of the 19th century, like a week on WWII, the roaring 20’s and dusbowl 30’s got a week, and the rest of the class was World War 2, the 4 years that made up 60% of our 250 year history.

    I have two hypotheses for why it was like that and they’re not mutually exclusive:

    1. WWII ends on a very boastful note for the USA. The defeat of not one but two objectively evil empires through both military and industrial might, that and having basically none of the fighting on our soil meant we came out of the war powerful and rich, eclipsing Great Britain as the superpower in the west. Almost immediately after that, history gets a lot less flattering.

    2. The boomers were in charge of setting the school curriculum circa 2002, and by their logic “Then World War 2 happened, and then I was born, and then stuff I personally remember happened, and because I personally remember it, it isn’t “history” therefore we don’t have to teach it. You learn about Upton Sinclair in history class, you learn about the Cuban Missile Crisis by watching the news, that’s just how it is.”