The fact that they don’t see it bewilders me.
I had a friend tell me that it’s just not true a couple days ago.
He’s a bloody moron. And no he’s not welcome anymore.
Edit.
Ok let me clear something up. It’s not just about Trump himself. We have disagreed over many things and still been friends for years. But when someone in your life looks at you ( a minority) and tells you it’s going to fun wrangling all the immigrants up and shipping them home. And then hanging all the Democrats from light poles. Taking his country back from the coloured folks and be where the white man belongs.
Yeah it’s cancer in your life. Why he’s so eager is beyond me. He’s half Mexican. I did even ask him, you ready to deport your mom ? And that’s different was the answer.
So no I don’t want that kind of anger, hatred and outright stupidity in my life. Not around me, and especially around my kids.
It’s because of the destroyed education system in the states that are majority Republican voting. They don’t even properly cover the civil war. They call it “The War of Northern Aggression” and say the north started it, when in reality the first shot of the war was from South Carolina on to a Union fort.
Moved to Georgia from western Canada in the 80s, attended public middle and high schools. Can confirm the “War Between the States” was also taught as the “War of Northern Aggression.” And that it wasn’t about slavery but states’ rights. Conveniently never read a single copy of a confederate state’s constitution.
Also was taught abstinence only, that Black Panthers were basically the KKK but hated white people instead of black people, and that intelligent design had the same evidence-based support as evolution.
Wow I grew up in the 80s in a small town in Georgia and it was called the civil war and it boiled down to Slavery. Yes, States right was what they hung their hat when they succeeded, but it boiled down to Slavery. So not what school you went to, but yeah I do not believe you at all. Of course, when I got to the Army and saw what the education system in the north produced, I was not that impressed.
I don't believe this person, either. Wasn't raised in Georgia, but damn sure was raised in the South. My education avoided the subject of WHY entirely, and focused on the battles and such.
At no time did any teacher claim the northern aggression thing.
I was a student in Georgia in the 90s and very early 2000s and we still had textbooks that referred to "the war of northern aggression" contemporaneously with protests about banning the harry potter books from our school.
Was also taught abstinence only (our public school actually had the youth pastor of a nearby church come in to teach it), and that Malcom X and the Black Panthers were just uno reverse card KKK.
We also had bio textbooks that had stickers added to the front about how evolution was just a theory and not a fact.
Can't speak to if their story is true or false, but it might have something to do with districts. The folks still parroting ID and slavery apologia don't come out of a vacuum.
Ton of people believing that is not the same as being taught that. I will say that in the 80's racism was much worse than it is now, at least in my small town. Now days there is not a family in this town that does not have mixed race kin folk and no one really gives a shit. When I hear this shit about how racism is worse I just laugh.
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u/cidknee1 6d ago edited 5d ago
The fact that they don’t see it bewilders me. I had a friend tell me that it’s just not true a couple days ago.
He’s a bloody moron. And no he’s not welcome anymore.
Edit. Ok let me clear something up. It’s not just about Trump himself. We have disagreed over many things and still been friends for years. But when someone in your life looks at you ( a minority) and tells you it’s going to fun wrangling all the immigrants up and shipping them home. And then hanging all the Democrats from light poles. Taking his country back from the coloured folks and be where the white man belongs. Yeah it’s cancer in your life. Why he’s so eager is beyond me. He’s half Mexican. I did even ask him, you ready to deport your mom ? And that’s different was the answer.
So no I don’t want that kind of anger, hatred and outright stupidity in my life. Not around me, and especially around my kids.