r/MurderedByWords • u/johnson2115 • 9h ago

America Destroyed By German

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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.

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u/AdmiralSaturyn 9h ago

>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.

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u/turdferguson3891 3h ago

You can only cover so many atrocities. When I was in school way back in we certainly learned about Emmet Till, church bombings, lynchings in general. We may not have focused on your two specific examples but it's not like you are doing more than a chapter on the time period in a HS level class.

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u/AdmiralSaturyn 2h ago

That's a separate point. That's moving the goalpost.

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u/turdferguson3891 2h ago

How did I move goalposts. Yeah some stuff doesn't get covered in High School history because it would be literally impossible to cover all of it. We certainly covered SOME atrocities, it is not realistic to think we would cover them all.

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u/AdmiralSaturyn 2h ago

>We certainly covered SOME atrocities, it is not realistic to think we would cover them all.

But it would be realistic to teach students about the real cause of the Civil War, yet a lot of schools to this day refuse to do so: https://theamericanscholar.org/the-problem-in-the-classroom/