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Smashingpmkns posted...

Gonna sound like a nut job probably in this post but I don't think people realize how early in their life the average American is bombarded with propaganda. Throughout grade school we're taught shit like Columbus was a tight mf, pilgrims and "indians" were cool as fuck they lived in harmony until *pages missing*, every picture of JFK's assassination in textbooks are in color while every civil rights picture is in black and white even though MLK was assassinated 5 years later, same textbooks have an equal amount of text (2 inch column, half a page) on both Malcolm X and the Trail of Tears, etc.

We're pretty much taught the right wing version of US history throughout grade school it's honestly a miracle people manage to break away from it.

Yeah, this needs to be brought up more often, I think. I was actually shocked that a documentary that I watched from the late 90s was very upfront about how the 50s was not a good time for women or black people, instead of the usual bits about it being an idyllic time.