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.

    • GrandAyatollaLenin [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      This is one of the most brilliant lies I've ever heard. It's just so blatantly designed to tear a wedge between minorities and those promoting policies that would disproportionately help minority communities.

      The neutral phrasing makes it worse. It's not condemning the Nordic Model, so it reads as both 'if we want to tolerate minorities, we must accept poverty' and 'if we want to eliminate poverty, we need to impose white supremacy.'

      I have to imagine the end goal of this is to have middle class liberals applauding impoverished immigrants working 80 hours a week as a sign of progress and tolerance, while an army of Bernie-Bros-turned-Nazbol stands ready to crush any any rebellious workers.

      • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I can't help but look at it and think "I'd rather suffer under an objectively worse system because I don't want any 'urbans' benefitting from my hard-earned money!"