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> Everybody tends to white wash [the Puritan regime] because they had high literacy rates and treated women better than most at the time. I don't think this sq

> Everybody tends to white wash [the Puritan regime] because they had high literacy rates and treated women better than most at the time. I don't think this squares with The Scarlet Letter being read in just about every high school in the US.

dsfyu404ed 8y ago
>I don't think this squares with The Scarlet Letter being read in just about every high school in the US. I guess I should have said "My Massachusetts public school education tends to white wash the Puritan regime". I've made comments about it before but getting most of my high school education in a different state as well as having my siblings get their education in different states really opened up my eyes to how politically tilted school curriculum are. Anything that's politically inconvenient gets covered at an age to young to think critically about it or covered to fast to have time to think about it. I assume the southern states whitewash everything pre-1865 and the plains states whitewash the Indian wars.