For me, that the Cold War began with the US wanting to stop Stalin's plans of imposing communism on the world. Did anybody else's curriculum portray Trotsky in a positive light? lmao it's funny to imagine the weirdos who write those textbooks were trots.

  • jilgangga [doe/deer]
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    4 years ago

    High school history — in China.

    • "Equality in opportunity (capitalism) is based, equality in result (socialism) sucks."
    • "European expansionism was justified cuz the rest of the world was backwards."
    • "The Second Opium War wouldn't happen if the Chinese simply respected diplomatic norms."
    • "The Boxers Rebellion was a bunch of illiterate lower class superstitious xenophobic maniacs who set China back by decades." (This one trigs me the most now. Literally the Boxers stopped China from being directly colonized by the West. They cut power lines and uprooted rail tracks NOT BECAUSE THEY HATED TECHNOLOGY AS WE WERE TAUGHT but because they understood how technology worked!!! :agony-immense: )

    Yes, many Chinese teachers were super :LIB: when I was growing up. I imagine the situation is much better now after Xi came to power. Lord the indoctrination.

    • thelastaxolotl [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      “The Second Opium War wouldn’t happen if the Chinese simply respected diplomatic norms.

      ahh yes, the diplomatic norm of bowing to the br*ts :ukkk:

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Wow, those brainwormed Chicago School economists Deng invited in were really just the tip of the iceberg huh.

      • jilgangga [doe/deer]
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        4 years ago

        I think people born in the 80s in China tend to be particularly more lib than previous and later generations. The sort of general zeitgeist of the 80s was indeed very Deng

    • mwsduelle [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Capitalism is not equality of opportunity. What a blatant lie. I didn't have the same opportunities that a billionaire's kid had. I guess most libs would say that because it's not illegal for me to have infinite money then I have the "opportunity" to be rich.

      • jilgangga [doe/deer]
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        4 years ago

        “Money is democratic! You can be a billionaire too technically!” :agony-wholesome:

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      1 year ago

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      • jilgangga [doe/deer]
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        4 years ago

        Local — I should clarify that none of these were stipulated by the textbook (which was and still is centrally directed). It was the teacher’s own systematically lib & bootlicking interpretation. But at my school a lot of history teachers think and teach that way, and it didn’t seem there was anyone holding them accountable for what they said in the classroom

    • Barabas [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The Boxers being turned into the Luddites of China was something I wasn't expecting.

      • jilgangga [doe/deer]
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        4 years ago

        The phrase “boxers” is still used from time to time online nowadays as a diss against radical lefties, nationalists, people who express discontent with globalization — basically anyone not lib