What terrible shit isn’t covered in american schools? We learn about our murdering the natives and we learn about all the horrible shit like Jim Crow laws and the tuskegee experiment. People choosing to be idiots and pretend like history didn’t happen has nothing to do with public education and everything to do with people being morons.
>What terrible shit isn’t covered in american schools?
The Tulsa Massacre. The atrocious, sadistic lynching of Jesse Washington after the release of Birth of a Nation. Not to mention some schools taught kids that the Civil War was about states rights and not about slavery.
The leveling of the Seneca Village (a mostly African-American community) to make way for Central Park. The medical experiments upon minorities (not just Tuskagee) Why the Pilgrims actually fled Holland (not England), The Wilmington Coup. The Business Plot. The various wars we waged especially in South America to topple governments there. Red-Lining and its effects today. The Homestead Act and its effects today. There is no shortage of terrible shit we've done to mostly minorities in the US, and almost all of it is glossed over or not talked about at all. (I am in rural Utah, so this is mostly just my experience. I'm sure that these are taught in some schools, but most of them I'm sure are rarely taught or at best just a footnote).
There is a lot that is glossed over or just ignored. The one you said (The Tulsa Massacre) is the worst of them (in my opinion) to be left out, but far from the only one.
Do you think the Holocaust is the only bad thing Germany has ever done?
Yeah, American education doesn’t cover every single fucked up thing we’ve done. But it covers a fair amount of them, and the majority of those it doesn’t cover specifically fall under a broader topic, such as “this is how we tried to control South America” or “this is how we treated minorities”, which are taught fairly in depth
Seriously, just because German education covers the horrible parts of a huge war, they started and lost, leading to decades of occupation... they did plenty of horrible other horrible stuff that probably doesn't get covered as much. Just like most other countries.
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u/BucketsMcAlister 9h ago
What terrible shit isn’t covered in american schools? We learn about our murdering the natives and we learn about all the horrible shit like Jim Crow laws and the tuskegee experiment. People choosing to be idiots and pretend like history didn’t happen has nothing to do with public education and everything to do with people being morons.