The weirdest one I remember is how muddled up my high school American History textbook was about the annexation of Hawaii, like it literally painted the US invasion and occupation as an intervention to stop the coup, instead of being part of the coup plan itself. Then there was the civics class that unironically taught that progressive taxation schemes "punish success" and basically was unironically just the meme of chuds not understanding how tax brackets work.
Most of the propaganda about history came more with a sort... sanitizing and glossing over things. Like the genocide of native americans was talked about, even including a few specific atrocities, but always in the most detached and disinterested language and with that insufferable liberal overtone of "yeah it was bad then but we've all moved past it and there's no issue now" that suffocates discourse about past American atrocities. The coverage of the civil rights movement was just the pEaCeFuL pRoTeSt WoN tHe DaY shit with only sparing mentions of reactionary violence. No mention of the mass deportation of 2 million hispanic americans in the 50s, no coverage of any war past WWII in class, with everything becoming sparser and information-light as it got closer to the present.
Perhaps the strangest part was just how much of the portrayal of government policy was sticking to ideas of the old Keynesian consensus, like it was so detached from the idea of ideology that there's just The US Government and it does things like "workers rights" and "regulation" and that's why it's "good." It's honestly no wonder how so many liberals grew up not understanding how neoliberalism replaced keynesianism, when they're taught vapid shit like "socialism is when the government does stuff, communism is when a does a lot, freedom is when it does just enough and not a hair more."
The weirdest one I remember is how muddled up my high school American History textbook was about the annexation of Hawaii, like it literally painted the US invasion and occupation as an intervention to stop the coup, instead of being part of the coup plan itself. Then there was the civics class that unironically taught that progressive taxation schemes "punish success" and basically was unironically just the meme of chuds not understanding how tax brackets work.
Most of the propaganda about history came more with a sort... sanitizing and glossing over things. Like the genocide of native americans was talked about, even including a few specific atrocities, but always in the most detached and disinterested language and with that insufferable liberal overtone of "yeah it was bad then but we've all moved past it and there's no issue now" that suffocates discourse about past American atrocities. The coverage of the civil rights movement was just the pEaCeFuL pRoTeSt WoN tHe DaY shit with only sparing mentions of reactionary violence. No mention of the mass deportation of 2 million hispanic americans in the 50s, no coverage of any war past WWII in class, with everything becoming sparser and information-light as it got closer to the present.
Perhaps the strangest part was just how much of the portrayal of government policy was sticking to ideas of the old Keynesian consensus, like it was so detached from the idea of ideology that there's just The US Government and it does things like "workers rights" and "regulation" and that's why it's "good." It's honestly no wonder how so many liberals grew up not understanding how neoliberalism replaced keynesianism, when they're taught vapid shit like "socialism is when the government does stuff, communism is when a does a lot, freedom is when it does just enough and not a hair more."