Incredibly sad that so many people in the imperial core can only learn about history when their superhero entertainment slop barely mentioned it. Watchmen had a scene showing the Tulsa massacre and millions of white people were like, "Wait, that happened?" I guess we need Spider Man 9 to have a scene detailing the Iran-Contra scandal for most people to realize that Reagan wasn't a great guy.
i learned about iran-contra from researching the sandinistas after listening to the clash because american schools don't teach jack shit about anything that isn't usamerican. occasionally you might get ancient egypt or the roman empire.
And when you do get American history, it's a mix of "...and then the Natives taught the Pilgrims to grow corn and they became best friends and lived happily ever after :wholesome:" and "the southern states, who were totally honorable and just fighting for a lost cause, broke away because of states' rights."
oh yeah. i got taught the pilgrims like 3 times in middle and high school, and ome of them was after i read lies my teacher told me. my curriculum was better than most i think, because we at least covered some of the 'conflicts' from a perspective CV ritical of the colonizers, but we still didn't teach it as a genocide or anything.
Reading LMTTM in sixth grade was probably the first step in my radicalization
same here. i remember feeling really confused when the author went 'even though all this bad stuff happened i still love the us' because he sure convinced me it was irredeemable. big step in learning to hate liberals acknowledging things but not wanting anything to change.
Fun fact: the reason that "Squanto" knew how to speak English, and became friends with the Pilgrims, is because he had previously been captured and sold into slavery by John Smith. He was freed from slavery by compassionate Spanish priests and returned to America to find that his entire village had died of western diseases. So that's why he became a translator.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squanto#Abduction
hahaha our country has failed us
I got interested in the Sandinistas (and subsequently the Iran-Contra affair) when I was a kid who was playing MGS Peacewalker for hours straight. Just the fact that a Commie guerrilla group was portrayed as part of the “good guys” blew my mind.
Comrade Kojima?
according to some greek news channel he's the guy who just assassinated abe, and he did it for devious communistic reasons