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>America doesn’t have a problem showing movies about segregation and lynchings >The West remains far from this kind of social amnesia. Did you forget how one
by FactKnower69 3y ago
>America doesn’t have a problem showing movies about segregation and lynchings
>The West remains far from this kind of social amnesia.
Did you forget how one of the two major American political parties has become completely obsessed in the past 5 years with trying to make it illegal to teach the history of the genocides this country has perpetrated?
- AnthonyMouse 3y agoHave people still not caught on to the con with this? Teaching the history of genocides is different than teaching them in a context of "people of European descent are uniquely evil and deserve to be punished for the historical crimes of people with the same skin color." When someone tries to teach the latter, other people sensibly object to it. But because it's politics, the team objecting to it will try to paint it as a central example of what's being taught, when it's actually an extremist position that could be righteously kicked out of the building. Then that team will have their own crackpots, some of whom are racists too. The original team then finds an instance of someone on the objecting team saying something indefensible and tries to paint that as a central example of what the other team's objections are, when it's actually an extremist position that could be righteously kicked out of the building. They're both just lying to you about their opponents while downplaying the wrongness of their own extremists, because it's politics.