It's fucking insane. Americans have effectively rewritten history with the extreme influence they've wielded from some of the most "authoritative" outlets known to most people. Honestly, you should try it yourself. The first thing you will come across when you search "cuba post batista" or "cuba 1960 forward" is headlines such as No, Castro didn't improve Cuba's literacy rate or Here's why Bernie Sanders' claims about Castro's Cuba are incorrect or Life expectancy in Cuba has not changed since Batista or Most people in Cuba under Batista were already literate or a quora post with anecdotes (usually someone from cuba who comes from the middle/upper class) about how Castro destroyed everything their family had, etc, etc
Not gonna lie, it made me question everything I learned about Castro (a few older documentaries and books). But it's just so bizarre and fucking frightening the lengths the West has gone to crush any type of socialism/the slighest positive depictionof socialism. And unfortunately, considering the fact that "Castro" is probably a bad word to the average person, it has all seemed to work.
This makes me depressed.
I saw someone's similiar post about searching for Castro using Google. I used duck duck go to do the same and pretty much ended up with the exact results as them
It's reactionary and right wing as fuck. Don't get me started on the obsession with IQ
It would be better if the world just ended now because I don't know how the left can possibly build from this
These falsehoods can also be a recruiting tool because of their core contradiction: why is the prevailing "expert" wisdom demonstrably false?
Unfortunately it means we have to know a lot so be communicate a lot.
I'm just hoping there will eventually be a tipping point. I mean, I don't know how long people can keep standing by this brazen exploitation, but considering what happened with covid, I'm not hopeful in the slightest
i never even knew why i grew up thinking castro was evil. no logical reason beside "gut feel".
Is it? Nobody around me knows who Castro is. At best they've heard the name, but don't know anything else about the guy because he has zero relevance to their lives.
Oh boy. My family has always HATED castro. And I'm white and of german descent
I guess it just depends
Heh, I'm not politically correct like the rest of you snowflakes so that's why I parrot the same talking points libs use but sprinkle in some mask off racism to make me stand out as a conservative.
Literally everything you see at every waking moment is interwoven with a rich tapestry of pro-white, pro-capitalist, anglocentric myths, whose refuutation causes immense amounts of butthurt and downvotes among the peons
