• glingorfel [he/him]
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      182 years ago

      In my school, we touched on some of that but with the undercurrent that it’s all ancient history. I got through history class with the impression that these were bad things done long ago, and I assume it’s the same for you.

      As an example to illustrate my point, were you taught in school about the forced sterilization of many indigineous women that began in the 70s?

    • Kuori [she/her]
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      192 years ago

      i’m glad you were taught some actual history. as someone raised in the south we never covered literally any of that. it was just manifest destiny, “the first thanksgiving!” then a hard cut directly to the civil war, and then from there to WWII with nothing in-between. no genocides, no wars, no nothing.

    • zerograd [none/use name]
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      Your teacher was based. I did not grow up in North America but somewhere else within the NATO bubble. Our teachers were basically Viet Nam “veteran” ““expats”” justifying nuking civilian cities during WWII and their favorite topic was North Korean haircuts. The upside down world we live in.

            • zerograd [none/use name]
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              What the fuck are you on? Describe “barely NATO”. The 1980 coup that defined my life was not “barely” NATO. Neither are the US bases on my land. Your post history is full of toxic aggressive bullshit. Fuck you racist, crypto nazi piece of shit and fuck Germany. You were nothing without Turkish slave labor that you treat like garbage to this day. Stalin showed you where you belong and you should’ve stayed there. Death to EU. germany-cool germany-cool germany-cool

            • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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              122 years ago

              What a fucked up thing to say. They were talking about their personal life experiences, only you read it as “painting the whole of the West” and you should probably ask yourself why you took it so personally.

    • RuthlessCriticism [comrade/them]
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      172 years ago

      We had battles against them

      This is a good example of the problem. This is a ludicrous way to talk about a genocide. Yes there were battles, but that was a tiny part of the history and most of those battles were just massacres anyways. Should we talk about the Holocaust in these terms? I’m sure some Jewish person managed to kill a Nazi between 1933 and 1945. Should we discuss the battles between Jews and Nazis?