Get canceled, buddy.

  • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    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

    • VernetheJules [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      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"

      • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        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.

        • panopticon [comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          Hitler exploded a lot of heads when he figured that out too (including ultimately his own, lol!)

        • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          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