Oh you wouldn’t believe the propaganda bullshit we get taught in K-12 here. Pretty sure that’s why politicians (mostly republicans, but not invariably) vilify higher education and ensure it remains prohibitively expensive; wasn’t til college that I learned that a good portion of my history classes growing up had, at best, shown only the American (or, in the case of US history, the white male American) side of the story, and at worst, been almost entirely fucking fabricated. “No no no, the Civil War was about states’ rights, not slavery” lookin ass. Honestly “we saved the world from Nazis because we’re just such kewl dudes” isn’t even the biggest bridge they sold us.
Oh you wouldn’t believe the propaganda bullshit we get taught in K-12 here. Pretty sure that’s why politicians (mostly republicans, but not invariably) vilify higher education and ensure it remains prohibitively expensive; wasn’t til college that I learned that a good portion of my history classes growing up had, at best, shown only the American (or, in the case of US history, the white male American) side of the story, and at worst, been almost entirely fucking fabricated. “No no no, the Civil War was about states’ rights, not slavery” lookin ass. Honestly “we saved the world from Nazis because we’re just such kewl dudes” isn’t even the biggest bridge they sold us.