I feel like Manifest destiny would be a good option for that too. Like, they teach that shit uncritically, and I'd wager most of would probably say it was a "net positive"
ugh, the whole “we made better use of the land” shit makes me gag. YOU LITERALLY DESTROYED THE LAND! WE ARENT EVEN CLOSE TO RECOVERING FROM THE DUST BOWL AND THAT WAS 90 YEARS AGO!
that could be right up there w Holocaust. damn now im wondering what the kill count is for chattel slavery. its gotta be up in the hundred millions. there were many tens of millions of slaves at its peak in the western hemisphere, and it went on for over 300 years (libs try to lower these numbers by only including the US, but there are two whole continents and a giant archipelago that were colonized and turned into settler-slave societies)
can the Caribbean be classified as one archipelago? thats what i was referring to
The Holocaust?
yeah this could replace the “not knowing” part at the top
I feel like Manifest destiny would be a good option for that too. Like, they teach that shit uncritically, and I'd wager most of
would probably say it was a "net positive" 
ugh, the whole “we made better use of the land” shit makes me gag. YOU LITERALLY DESTROYED THE LAND! WE ARENT EVEN CLOSE TO RECOVERING FROM THE DUST BOWL AND THAT WAS 90 YEARS AGO!
Chattel slavery also feels dramatically absent
that could be right up there w Holocaust. damn now im wondering what the kill count is for chattel slavery. its gotta be up in the hundred millions. there were many tens of millions of slaves at its peak in the western hemisphere, and it went on for over 300 years (libs try to lower these numbers by only including the US, but there are two whole continents and a giant archipelago that were colonized and turned into settler-slave societies)
can the Caribbean be classified as one archipelago? thats what i was referring to