• Averagemaoist [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I’m convinced all the people saying that America doesn’t teach what happens to the Indians (besides the first Thanksgiving) stopped paying attention in history class after elementary school.

    • MrSqueezles@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, my education didn’t cover who taught whom about corn. It definitely covered reservations and forced marches and murder and sickness. Maybe we can cover all of that in a couple of weeks and forget how much time it took and what was covered?

    • Kuori [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      “this wasn’t my experience, so it didn’t happen”

      or you could listen to the people telling you otherwise, but why do that?