Current Events > Why did history books make Woodrow Wilson out to be a good person?

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NeverOffended
05/23/17 12:06:38 PM
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what are your thoughts?
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-GuardianSloth-
05/23/17 12:07:48 PM
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Because compared to Hitler annd Stalin he was a saint
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NeverOffended
05/23/17 12:13:15 PM
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-GuardianSloth- posted...
Because compared to Hitler annd Stalin he was a saint


he was still monster though, he just did his killing by invading Latin America

he messed up a lot of countries, gave rise to the KKK again and set back race relations decade after dismantling policies born from the reconstruction era
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Solid Snake07
05/23/17 12:30:33 PM
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war times tend to blur history
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Antifar
05/23/17 12:31:55 PM
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He also worked against the first amendment in imprisoning anti-war activists.
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UnfairRepresent
05/23/17 12:33:21 PM
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He very firmly opposed WW1 intervention at a time where the population was split but most people didn't want to get involved.

And he tried to promote (admittedly hilariously blatantly destined to fail) peace between the European nations

At the same time he boomed the nation's economy by creating enormous industry while not openly going to war.

He's a textbook capitalist.
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UnfairRepresent
05/23/17 12:35:19 PM
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-GuardianSloth- posted...
Because compared to Hitler annd Stalin he was a saint

Wrong time period.

You mean compared to Kaiser Wilhelm II and Nicholas II

Compared to which he was no saint, he was as morally gray and out for his nations own interests as much as they were.

If anything he was probably worse than Wilhelm II.
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Questionmarktarius
05/23/17 12:37:59 PM
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fenderbender321 posted...
History books should only be telling you facts. If you are reading a history book that says somebody is great, then you aren't reading a very good history book. If history books simply point out that he was well liked by the American people, then that's just stating a fact which is fine.

That.
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NeverOffended
05/23/17 12:38:16 PM
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fenderbender321 posted...
History books should only be telling you facts. If you are reading a history book that says somebody is great, then you aren't reading a very good history book. If history books simply point out that he was well liked by the American people, then that's just stating a fact which is fine.


then why don't they? I had to find this out by reading the book Lies My Teacher Told me smh

also fyi all 12 high school history books are openly mocked by historians for omitting facts
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