return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agoWhat's the "keeping it real" history that Americans are taught the whitewashed version in school?message-squaremessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down14
arrow-up164arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the "keeping it real" history that Americans are taught the whitewashed version in school?return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-squareDrusas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up25·1 year agoAs someone from the north, we were very explicitly taught that the civil war was about slavery.
minus-squareBytemeister@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoThe “War of Northern Agression” started by Confederates shooting at an American fort.
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI mean, such things can be false flags. It wouldn’t make sense, the Confederates were much weaker strategically and knew it.
minus-squareandros_rex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 year agoEven PragerU admits it nowadays, to their rare credit. I flipped through some state standards, and even the usual suspects do agree now. However, a quick scroll on news comment thread about confederate statues or a convo with a high school teacher in like fucking Durant or something will reveal that Lost Cause bullshit is still alive and well.
As someone from the north, we were very explicitly taught that the civil war was about slavery.
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The “War of Northern Agression” started by Confederates shooting at an American fort.
I mean, such things can be false flags. It wouldn’t make sense, the Confederates were much weaker strategically and knew it.
Even PragerU admits it nowadays, to their rare credit. I flipped through some state standards, and even the usual suspects do agree now.
However, a quick scroll on news comment thread about confederate statues or a convo with a high school teacher in like fucking Durant or something will reveal that Lost Cause bullshit is still alive and well.