I remember seeing this image in a middle school or high school history textbook. My teacher made some shitty comment about how what it represented could be argued as a good or bad thing, rather than being an explicitly bad thing and a genocide
Yep, that's where I first saw this too. I really don't remember any serious discussions about the implications of this painting either. Manifest Destiny was just something that "happened"
Hey, what's the difference between lebensraum and manifest destiny? In one business interests and the state colluded to form a genocidal white supremacist empire to conquer a large swath of productive land to solidify their control of capital and in the other everyone spoke German. jazz hands
I remember seeing this image in a middle school or high school history textbook. My teacher made some shitty comment about how what it represented could be argued as a good or bad thing, rather than being an explicitly bad thing and a genocide
Yep, that's where I first saw this too. I really don't remember any serious discussions about the implications of this painting either. Manifest Destiny was just something that "happened"
I have a vivid memory of the first time I realized that one man's Manifest Destiny is another man's Lebensraum. My head pretty much exploded.
Hitler exploded a lot of heads when he figured that out too (including ultimately his own, lol!)
Me at my five minutes on the open mic:
Hey, what's the difference between lebensraum and manifest destiny? In one business interests and the state colluded to form a genocidal white supremacist empire to conquer a large swath of productive land to solidify their control of capital and in the other everyone spoke German. jazz hands
Wild applause!