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The hawaiian state had banned teaching hawaiian until the 90s

Hawaii has been occupied since the late 1800s

They only recently started teaching in schools that the overthrow even happened

shitlibs love posting that picture of the guy standing in front of the tank, as some kind of own, when if that happened in the US the cops would have gleefully run him over and then been made into a celebrity for it

Death to America

I didn't even learn about Fred Hampton till I was in my thirties and it was from the Chapo Trap House subreddit

How is that they never post pictures of the students killed on Kent State

Also here in the UK a large majority believe that “Empire” was a nice pleasant good thing that did nothing but good to the countries we merely ’looked after’.

We call the ones that haven’t fully told us to ‘fuck off’ the ‘Commonwealth’ and hold lots of PR events like Olympic-esque games and ‘rich monarch waves at people who’s country has a GDP less than their hat largely because we stole all their resources before they could use them to develop’ tours.

"Uyghur people are being GENOCIDED simply for their culture of having knifes to demonstrate their manliness (which the CIA used to agitate for terrorist attacks)"

vs

"actually US settlers were right to kill natives because they were scary and had sharp obsidian knives" :scared:

On US education I remember in 8th grade the one thing I learned about Marx was one paragraph and was basically just "he wrote the Communist Manifesto and believed that history was a cycle of conflicts between classes." And I was just like "Well what is communism? Isn't that going to be important going forward?" I guess it wasn't and I never learned what Communism/Socialism actually is or what the USSR did beyond "be authoritarian" until I was an adult.

When I was in I think 2nd grade I gave a presentation on the Civil War while wearing a costume of a confederate soldier.

I was taught that factory workers in the north had it worse than slaves, that the Civil War War Between the States was about states' rights, that Confederate generals were noble and honorable while Union ones were incompetent drunks who relied on essentially human wave tactics and burning down cities to win. Gone With the Wind was presented to me as an accurate and unbiased depiction of history.

Growing up I definitely had a couple awkward dinner conversations with certain "history buff" relatives where I was like, "Well sure, but still, I mean, obviously we can all agree the South was wrong, right?" and suddenly people start exchanging looks

I actually got a similar reaction once for saying the Crusades were bad, Catholics are fucking wild I tell you.

Tulsa What? Kent State Who?

Manifest Destiny was just a heroic and triumphant settling of new land.

I just read to my parents about the Haymarket tragedy and the origins of Mayday, and how the United States freaked out that people all over the world began recognizing that day and in order to cut it off in the US they made May 1st loyalty day and used red scare shit to make sure nobody would demonstrate or do anything on May 1st here lol. They had never heard of any of it.

US PUBLIC EDUCATION HISTORY CLASS: And today kids, we are going to learn about all of the native indians, the Southwest Indians, the plains indians, AND the forrest indians. Are you excited to learn about all the indians that were here, kids?

Question to American comrades: How are the genocides of native Americans and Lebensraum manifest destiny being taught in American schools? What does the average American know?

I'm convinced all the people saying that America doesn't teach what happens to the Indians (besides the first Thanksgiving) stopped paying attention in history class after elementary school.

That is not true in my case. We learned about various massacres and the trail of tears, ect. Of course that was at a time when you actually studied history.

Just gonna use this post as an opportunity to link this piece from one of my favorite writers of all time, since it’s an article which covers the absolute state of both public education and homeschooling in the American South in depth (CW for extreme racism and general bigotry)

So you tankies agree that Tiananmen Square massacre happened? Good job

I definitely remember reading about the trail of tears in a small town US high School

MOVE bombings, what MOVE bombings? That's not part of the history curriculum.

You're wrong. My highschool did teach me the awful things about what we did to the natives. We had battles against them, gave them diseases, raped their women and children. I know we did bad things to the native Americans and you're making it sound like we weren't taught that but you're wrong!

There are some pretty radical US teachers who don't teach American mythology, and unless they're in Florida or another state banning CRT and gender-affrming sex-ed, they aren't breaking the law in the process.

So are y'all china simps? I'm so confused still about hexbear.

I thought the indians did teach colonists how to grow crops like corn and often shared food with them. But then large amounts of Indians would die from a plague every time the colonists visited (disease moment), and then they became suspicious that they were purposefully killing them. And then the colonists grew suspicious that the Indians were planning on killing them and then they all killed each other. Except the colonists had guns and so they won.

I hate to use the "both sides" argument but can't we all agree both governments have done some pretty awful shit to their vulnerable populations? Nothing in this world is truly black and white (except for Nazis, fuck them). It anything this should tell us not to idolize any side or else we'll be blinding ourselves to some ugly truths because we'd instinctively think the other side is merely making shit up.

Except very little really did happen in Tiananmen Square, so it's not really equivalent.

I finished my highschool in the US. We were taught about the atrocities that the US government inflicted upon the native Americans. This was in Arizona by the way. Nothing was glorified or sugar coated in any way. I remember our history teacher drawing parallels to the Holocaust countless times.

Remember... The online sphere isn't always representative of the ground reality.

but that was the british, wasn't it?