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I'm from rural illinois.
I recall some history teacher confusing the hell out of me in class.
She reiterated repeatedly that the civil war was not caused by slavery. But in the textbook it said it was.
And when it came time to take the test I was like...
Pretty sure it was about slavery. But I know she wants me to say it wasn't.
So I checked it was about states rights. And I got it correct.
I remember this because I felt like I was being tricked.
It obviously was about slavery. I mean the whole thing with Lincoln and freeing the slaves.
But she said it wasn't.
I wonder how many teachers like her are still around.
Yeah the Confederacy was against states rights. Member states were not allowed to be abolitionist. And they left the union because they weren't allowed to force northern states to follow their laws. Anyone saying it was about states rights is a racist pos
I had almost the opposite experience. The textbooks barely mentioned slavery in the context of the war, besides the freeing of slaves after the war. They book said it was all about states rights. But our teachers did tell us it was mostly about slavery.
But I did grow up in the south, so much so that my middle school was pretty much segregated when I was there in the mid 00’s. What a shithole
The emancipation proclamation was made during the war, not so much to make the slaves free, but to remove a vast source of wealth from the southern elite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZB2ftCl2Vk
Exactly
My high school history teacher imparted the same thing.
He also explicitly went out of his way to note that the New Deal didn't alleviate the Great Depression (but it was the war – and, therefore, production – which did) and had an entire lecture about how Nixon never thought he was doing anything wrong and name dropped that he knew certain members of that administration on a personal level so I don't think he was exactly unbiased.
That said, he also spend more time on the 1940s civil rights movement than any other teacher I ever had and routinely highlighted that racial profiling was still prevalent in America so I'm not entirely certain what he had going on.
There are a lot of contradictory people out walking around.
Some even write books.
Lovecraft was apparently a racist, yet wrote about how the innsmouth fish people were unfairly discriminated against because of how they looked.
It's just confusing to read because he was pretty racist but then insightful for his fictional discriminated fish people.
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Orson Scott Card wrote about different species living as peaceful friends. And he is a homophobic piece of shit.
Right!? That guy.
Omg.
So the ender books. I had the audio book versions. I used to have a job where I could listen to books all day, so I did. And I can't recall which book of his this was , it might have been Ender.but at the end there was an audio message from him. And I'll summarize the main points.
You may have noticed that I (orson) voiced one of the characters in this audio book. That's because I have a wonderful voice and the producers begged me to do it. Everyone knows I have an exceptional voice and way of speaking. I'm really just very good. (On and on he goes)
My ex wife is a bitch and so is her new effeminate husband. She never believed in me. She always held me back. Did I mention she's a bitch ? (Honestly like 5 minutes of pure bashing on his ex. Maybe more).
I'll never agree to have ender made into a movie because the producers keep wanting to give ender a love interest.
Ender is a child. Who's trying to give him a love interest?
Hollywood producers. Apparently. They also did want to make him a teenage heart throb.
Which is a problem. Ender is a child. That's important to the story.
Well, about that last point...
I wonder if he needed the money so gave in.