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Comment on We always hear/read about Goverments cencoring the internet. What is something that the US is not knowing is being censored?

Flickerby@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Not the Internet but I was taught a lot of bullshit about the native Americans willingly giving up land to the settlers and all that instead of, y’know, the massive attempted genocidal slaughter that took place.

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AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I presume that might be a regional thing, because I was taught in 8th grade US history class about some of the atrocious things we did to the natives. And to a lesser extent about what my state did specifically in the history class for my specific state.

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- Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Trail of tears was assigned reading when I went to school. Granted quite a while ago.
  
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- Soulcreator@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Same, this is literally the first I’ve heard about the natives just “giving up and making way” for the Europeans. I recall being taught about the trail of tears and how we forced them off their land by any means necessary. Then again I grew up in a liberal city on the East Coast so my experiences probably aren’t universal.
  
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DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
That’s red state hillbilly education system for ya

In my US schools, they taught most of the atrocities. Some of my teachers were Black, I even had teacher who is a Muslim (so its not a Christian-Eurocentric perspective when it comes to Civics and Social Studies)

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