It took liberals less than half-a-year to get on board with genocide. It's no surprise to me that they don't want to be reminded of the ones closer to home, either.
Eventually this will get used in Florida to make sure we worship Christopher Columbus and don't make white kids feel bad about what their great great great great grandparents did. Because somehow we can't both acknowledge the bad and not have ancestral guilt. Oh maybe it makes white kids feel guilty because their parents are still teaching them they are better than people different from them. I think they should feel guilty.
Yeah Im with others on this. We were taught this and all the gory details. Same with slavery. We were not sheltered from the reality of any of it.
Just to give you some clarity, in 9th grade our teacher told us a historical account in which a slaveowner punished his slave by literally shitting in his mouth and sewing it shut.
We were made to understand the brutality of slavery.
Yeah, my school explicitly said the confederacy was right, should have won, and slavery wasn't as bad as people say, and they still covered the trail of tears accurately.
When my wife and I saw Watchmen the series, my wife was blown away when I told her that really happened.
Whites literally told blacks to go away and form their own town, so they did and prospered, so the whites came and murdered the prosperous black community, and nobody was punished for any of this.
Wikipedia places the death count at three times the number shown in this 'meme' at the low end, 4x at the high end. Also what a bizarre bit of phrasing, it's literally called "The Trail of Tears" calling it evil is really gliding the lily.
I was taught it in New York, seems odd to omit it from American history. Wouldn't surprise me if other states didn't. Education is super politicized here.
It’s not necessarily a topic that comes up every day, but I can’t think of a single time I’ve ever met a person who didn’t know about it. It’s never happened that someone has said “Wait what? What are you talking about?” when the genocide comes up.
It took me an embarrassing long time to realize every single dipshit on this website that criticizes me “from the left”, is fully just a liberal. Posted up inside of a Democratic enclave in the US, who genuinely does not understand that their experience as an American might be somewhat unusual, or at least not an experience of the majority.
Look beyond your own experiences, and learn something. You twit
Did you have something to say about my comment? If so, what is it?
I’m an Uber driver. I spend all day every day having interesting conversations with strangers. How does that compare to the strategies you’ve employed to “look beyond your own experiences”?
So clearly you aren't an American. If you were American you would know about the Trail of Tears. It's one of the landmark, pivotal chapters in American history that is actually taught: the people who were living here first were brutally repressed and removed from their own land and moved to parts of the country no one wanted, regardless of where the native people were from. So the folks who grew up around swamps on the Florida peninsula were moved to the dry, dusty wastes of Oklahoma. This is all stuff Americans learn.
So why are you posting this? You're just a dumb fucking troll. Go fight and be a sunflower like the rest of your ilk.
I went to highschool in Utah in the 90s and it was covered pretty well... No glossing over or anything, tho I don't remember it being in any text book, I just remembered it from regular lecture time in US history class
Be as sarcastic as you like, but I'm grateful for my education. We thoroughly covered these types of topics from elementary through high school. These, and many other topics, gave me a small window into other cultures that left me wanting to learn more. It gave me an open minded curiosity about people who were different from me, even though the area was about as homogeneous as it gets. It made me excited for opportunities to go out in new communities and talk to people from different backgrounds.
I find now that I'm older that this type of genuine curiosity about other people pays off in a number of ways. I'm sorry that you don't seem to have had a similar experience.
In Canada, we devote a lot of time discussing how Europe settled the Americas and what happened to the Natives. There are daily announcements from certain school boards acknowledging that we reside on land previously belonging to a certain First Nations group. We still have a way to go in terms of the treatment of our first Nations groups, but it's become very common knowledge how horrible European settlers were to them.
It wasn't taught in my UK primary school. I didn't take GCSE history, so I don't know if it was taught in secondary school. Probably not, from what I've heard from other people the curriculum tends to be pretty Eurocentric.
Reminds me of a girl I knew posting on FB, "How come they don't have changing stations in men's rooms, huh?!"
LOL my god she got roasted. One guy was like, "You know $Brand you see in the bathroom? They in our bathrooms too and the company is headquartered in Tulsa. Where you're from."
And yes, The Trail of Tears was covered in OK classrooms, in the 80s.