Thread about how media manufactures “history”
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Also they don’t mention that it was rebuilt within a few years. I know about it due to growing up in the same state along with knowing about Native American history in Oklahoma. I wouldn’t expect people from different parts of the country to be aware. Similar to how I wouldn’t know about regional Oregon history
It’s another 1619 revisionism attempt. There’s even claims that 3k people died now with “hidden” mass graves, were bombed by planes, and machine guns were used to mow down black people.
Did they build death coasters too?
Oh man, next you'll say they were put in cages with bears and eagles, or masturbated to death by industrial diesel-powered onaholes.
When I was a history and anthropology Prof my students would complain that I wouldn't know this or that fact. I had to explain that there was no way I'd know it all, but I definitely knew more than they did. I studied because I want to know more, not because I wanted to correct idiots.
Why do you hate yourself so much?
Dude, you show an interest in culture and history and they say that should be your major. Then they never give you a job outside of academia as a viable option. Then they act like they're doing you a favor for a shit job with little pay, because someday you might get their kind of money.
That's why I say Academia is a pyramid scheme.
I almost majored in poly sci with a history minor before I joined the military. Couldn’t imagine how shitty it would have been if I followed through with that useless scrap of paper.
Are you a "Boasian"?
Little more advanced than that. I do go into cultures and study them directly. It's weird how much people don't do this.
Check out the state-by-state breakdown in the replies. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gsuvez5WgAAgazZ?format=jpg&name=medium
It's like education about the civil war. People growing up in the area it happened learned all about those events and are way more educated than normies, but those normies now think they are the educated ones because they saw a movie where "this changes everything we know." In the case of the civil war, the outsiders (yankees) were only taught it was dem evil slaveowners what started a war and nothing else. In the case of the race riot, the outsiders know nothing.
The political situation leading up to the Civil War was quite complex, and I try to explain to people that the abolition movement didn't have any real plans beyond simply ending slavery without any form of compensation, which would have nuked the entire economy of the South.
It's incredibly naive to think that half the country was going to just sit there and watch all of its wealth and influence disappear without any sort of repercussions.
Then you get into things such as the immigrant labor force powering the industrial revolution the North, and how they were basically slaves in all but name, so the moral call to end slavery quite conveniently coincided with the wealthy in the North receiving pretty much the exact same labor force but they could assuage their consciences by saying that their workers were free.
And not to mention a lot of people that opposed slavery's expansion to the west, was from white folks that wanted jobs and not be shutout by rich guys with slaves. It wasn't some moral calling to oppose slavery, it was a financial decision
Like with everything, it's the economy, stupid.
Always is, always was, always will be.
Also that a lot of people didn't own slaves, because it turns out feeding/housing people isn't cheap, and poor farmers can't afford it (they'd turn out to love tech making their lives easier).
Remember that Bull Run, not Fort Sumter, was the start of the American civil war. Sumter was an eviction.
And that the South fired first.
Just as no one outside of TX heard of Juneteenth, until 2020 during the George Floyd riots. Now it is a national holiday.
I specifically committed details of the Camp Logan Mutiny to memory for people who started saying "nobody knows about Tulsa" after the stupid HBO show came out.
Didn't they pardon the soldiers recently?
Yes.