ByteOnBikesJohnny Appleseed planting apple trees for kids to eat
Correct, it was a land grab scam based on the laws of the time.
IIRC, if he planted trees it was then his land because he was using it, so he could then sell it for actual money. This was after the military had killed or chased out the natives who lived on it, of course.
TheTechnician27IIRC
You don’t recall correctly, and I have no idea where you got that information. Appleseed actually was a successful businessman who bought some land, owning about 1200 acres (~5 km^2^), but by all accounts he was a genuinely good person, and I’ve never heard what you’re saying (and not substantiating) that he did.
Ah but you see, their comment has the message of “capitalism bad”, so it doesn’t really matter if what they wrote is true.
I’d go even further and say that this is more generic than capitalism/anticapitalism wish fulfillment. It’s a desire to speak truth to power but without any of the effort or sincere curiosity to learn what that truth is. To have that truth condensed onto a smaller and smaller spoon until you don’t even realize you’re being spoonfed at all is the ideal.
chill down.
Yes, it’s not good to spread information without double-checking it, but expecting people to double check everything they hear, read or watch is entirely unreasonable.
They didn’t try to pass it out as a truth, that’s why they added “iirc” at the beginning.
You’re implying ill intent without making sure there is one in the first place. It’s basically the same error they made: they haven’t checked the story they heard, you haven’t checked whether they did it on purpose.
If it would’ve been the case, they would be already telling you how wrong you are, and how right their version of the story is.