That seems like a common US history class experience. I was in high school in the mid 2000s and we had the same story told to us. I think a lot of people have that totally unexamined justification still floating around in their heads. But I also had a history teacher around 2005 that unironically shouted at a girl in the front of the class that terrorists wanted her to die because she had a refrigerator.
My 6th grade history teacher in the early 2000s told us in the class that the Native American genocide was completely justified and without it "you wouldn't be here today". That woman was bat shit fucking crazy. Her son went to war in Iraq and she had a shrine for him in the class room. This was in 2003 when the War on Terror was starting to get hot. I was still in elementary school when 9/11 happened and for the rest of that year, every morning we had to stand for the pledge of allegiance and sing that stupid Lee Greenwood song. This carried over into my 5th grade year. I heard that song so many times, I still have the lyrics memorized and I'm 28 years old now ugh.
That seems like a common US history class experience. I was in high school in the mid 2000s and we had the same story told to us. I think a lot of people have that totally unexamined justification still floating around in their heads. But I also had a history teacher around 2005 that unironically shouted at a girl in the front of the class that terrorists wanted her to die because she had a refrigerator.
Only 00's kids remember being lied to about the imperialist nature of the Iraq war in high school.
Early 90s kids too.
My 6th grade history teacher in the early 2000s told us in the class that the Native American genocide was completely justified and without it "you wouldn't be here today". That woman was bat shit fucking crazy. Her son went to war in Iraq and she had a shrine for him in the class room. This was in 2003 when the War on Terror was starting to get hot. I was still in elementary school when 9/11 happened and for the rest of that year, every morning we had to stand for the pledge of allegiance and sing that stupid Lee Greenwood song. This carried over into my 5th grade year. I heard that song so many times, I still have the lyrics memorized and I'm 28 years old now ugh.