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Robert ReichToday is a good day to remind you that whitewashing American history is how white supremacy thrives.
Bc Clarity Carlton-Martin@rbreich All my textbooks print in Texas
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Erudition_lost@Erudition_lost @rbreich https://education.msu.edu/green-and-write/2014/texas-textbooks-and-the-politics-of-history-standards/ I made a pun out of this. Not good for the future.
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Bill Bouts@rbreich history is always written by the victor, and later, usually much later when the vanquished or their descendants attempt to correct the historical record they are almost always demonized.
Godfrey642@bbouts @rbreich speaking as a Brit in Australia just looking at my "English" history, that post is patently true: Irish Potato Famine, Invasion and theft of Australia, Invasion of USA, invasion of everywhere, Nth Irish Troubles just to name a few. What i was taught in school as a teenager was all soooo wrong and skewed.
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It took me moving abroad from the US at the age of fourteen and going to school abroad to discover that most of what I was taught in public school regarding history was whitewashed and/or patently false.
It took me moving abroad from the US at the age of fourteen and going to school abroad to discover that most of what I was taught in public school regarding history was whitewashed and/or patently false.
@bbouts @rbreich And seen from the Govts point of view, you can understand why. A mobarchy who has systematically used its military to plunder, thieve, kidnap, enslave, rape & murder around the world isn't going to tell its ppl what it did. God forbid, the plebs much turn against the monarchy and the God who decreed its rank and entitlement.
Syd@rbreich Yes, I agree but also having a day where you focus on being incredibly awestruck by the blessings in your life, and being lucky enough, hopefully, to not be the subject of ongoing genocide, plague, direct conflict, starvation, etc.. is not a bad thing even if some people who also celebrated it were ignorant or just dicks.
RedMomma@rbreich Happy Thanksgiving, Robert. Thankful for your perspective and your salient reminders.
sandywb14@rbreich
More relevant than ever!
More relevant than ever!
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mechtild jd@rbreich
Here's one relating to today: : The first person off the Mayflower was Jewish. The hope was he could communicate with the watchful Natives on shore because he spoke multiple languages.
Rose Ⓐ 🏳️⚧️ (it/its)@mechtild55 @[email protected]
And then came the genocide
Allen Gilbert@rbreich. that's why it's referred to as "anti-CRT"... Sounds much more respectable
British Tech Guru@rbreich So it was really White Supremacists that tore down all the Confederate memorials?
Kinos@rbreich i like trump
Hal Brown@rbreich Per George Santayana “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” but he didn't say that tragically there are those who not only don't remember history, but those who do remember what for them was the good old days of white supremacy and want to repeat it.
@rbreich lets talk about White preference rather than supremacy. Preference is something I can tackle in my own head, the wayward inclination rising from nature and nurture. Supremacy is just a fallacy, but also a triggering and alienating word.
Peter Principle@rbreich Rarely -- if ever -- has the term "whitewashing" been more appropriate.
@rbreich reads better if you delete 'good'
@rbreich End white supremacy.
Queer Satanic@rbreich oh damn the dad of the host of GameChanger has a Masto account
FayeS@rbreich not so happy thanksgiving.
✊🏾WiseGuyEddie@rbreich I wish we could get more truth into the education system. This country is ridiculous.
John Philpin Ⓜ️@rbreich is that the origin of 'whitewashing'?
SAPhillips@rbreich Yes!! Another word for it is brainwashing!! 🤬
LMMomTo2@rbreich So you came here too? Yay! I just joined and I'm glad to see you here. You are the first person who showed up in my feed! The internet knows things (I follow you on IG & Twitter also)...scary.lol
Francis Flannery@rbreich
Australia too! Tho, to be fair, if we go back far enough in time history is written & re-written by whomever the Conqueror is.
Greeks, Romans, Turks, Danes, Germans, British, French, Spanish...on & on.
For all we know, Aliens too! Lol
BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️@rbreich The choice is as simple as it is stark.
Either the notion of white supremacy dies, or we do.
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Jcmacomber@rbreich
Agree 100 percent.
Agree 100 percent.
@rbreich who is whitewashing?
A.W.Ford, the Curious Curator@rbreich More refined: whitewashing history is how illegitimacy thrives.
Hell, whitewashing is literally the one-word history of history 😉
Phil Allsopp@rbreich exactly!
Penda Wangmo@rbreich you must watch The English with Emily Blunt on Amazon Prime
The Way of Accountability@rbreich Are you prepared to be honest?
TedSarvata@rbreich I saw the Woman King last night and was thinking the same thing. Since history is written by the victors, how many resistance stories are never told?
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The oppressed become the oppressors. Human nature apparently.
The oppressed become the oppressors. Human nature apparently.
Heterodox This@rbreich
Today is a good day to remind *you* that bad-jacketing antifascists as secret white supremacists is how white supremacy thrives, Mr. Reich.
https://www.newsweek.com/robert-reich-who-sent-thugs-berkeley-552577?amp=1
