• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    I highly recommend Lies My Teacher Told Me, American history textbooks are fucking garbage lol

    For example, that the US Army hunted buffalo to near extinction specifically to starve the plains natives, it was a deliberate strategy of using starvation as a weapon. I was taught it was just “”“poaching”“” from settlers and that it was all an accident.

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      3 months ago

      that and A People’s History of the United States informs most of what i know.

      i also marvel from time to time at how the bullshit that i was taught when i was young can still completely overpower the things i learned in my young adulthood; and it somehow got worse once i reached middle age.