ReiRoseTIL about the battle of Blair Mountain
We had actual armies of coal workers fighting for their rights. The shit going on in West Virginia at the time was insane. The Esau Scripts they would use to rope miners’ wives and daughters into bureaucratized prostitution was one of the most downright evil and heartbreaking thing I’ve ever heard of
Tragic how Americans forgot all about it in a couple of decades. Those people fought for their rights and they sent the army to rein them in.
Now the army is too busy so they send in the violent goobers.
They sent violent goobers too, the Pinkerton’s have a long history of strike breaking
It’s a lot harder to perpetuate historical knowledge when you don’t get support from the educational system. The government sets educational standards and subject matter, so it’s not surprising they de-emphasize the record of their own actions against the public they are teaching.
Universities are more independent (but definitely not completely, and they come with their own set of problems), so students there tend to be more exposed to topics like this. But then you get political movements villianizing universities.
It’s why they’re pushing so hard for schools and specifically teachers to be “apolitical”. Previously universities were exempt because we needed the people running things to have a reasonable grasp of reality.
But now they don’t like how to “college educated” people keep voting against them.
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