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[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 118 points 1 year ago

The hawaiian state had banned teaching hawaiian until the 90s

Hawaii has been occupied since the late 1800s

They only recently started teaching in schools that the overthrow even happened

[-] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 63 points 1 year ago

The native Hawaiian military was oppressed so harshly, martial arts in general were declared illegal in Hawaii. The locals worked around it by disguising the basics of their military arts as dance. You might have heard of the hula

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[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 112 points 1 year ago

shitlibs love posting that picture of the guy standing in front of the tank, as some kind of own, when if that happened in the US the cops would have gleefully run him over and then been made into a celebrity for it

Death to America

[-] Kieselguhr@hexbear.net 88 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

somebody actually did splice together the video when the Chinese tank goes around the guy, and the footage on the other side is from the BLM protests when a cop car just drives into the crowd

[-] privatized_sun@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Han Chinese are racial chauvinists" /r/politics libs, probably

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[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago

Jeff Widener, an American photographer with the Associated Press, won a pulitzer prize for that photo, precisely because it was a still image. He also took a video, but the video tends not to be shown, because it reveals that the man wasn't run over. Then you have the fact that all the US press corps showed up right as the protests took off, a lot of dark money from NGOs and western think tanks was floating around, and then deliberate conflation of the worker riots (in which PLA troops were lynched outside the square) being confused with the mostly peaceful events inside the square. Then you have that interview with the protest leader where she was crying and basically saying she was trying to provoke a massacre so that the protesters could be seen as martyrs. She got her wish, even if the massacres didn't actually occur, since that's how the west depicts those events. Then there the highly suspicious fact that nobody talks about the fact that you had many different types of protester simultaneously. Some were opposed to liberal reforms, privatization, etc, (the workers rioting outside the square) while other protesters wanted more of that stuff (the student protesters inside the square). Then you have some racist elements mixed in with the student protests I've heard, i.e. that there were some Chinese who were protesting because they didn't like the presence of African exchange students at their universities. I don't know how true that is, but I've heard it a few times.

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[-] Grunt4019@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago

And the comments would say: He sHoUlD hAVe JuSt CoMpLiEd

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[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 102 points 1 year ago

I didn't even learn about Fred Hampton till I was in my thirties and it was from the Chapo Trap House subreddit

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 92 points 1 year ago

How is that they never post pictures of the students killed on Kent State

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[-] sshff@lemmy.sdf.org 85 points 1 year ago

Also here in the UK a large majority believe that “Empire” was a nice pleasant good thing that did nothing but good to the countries we merely ’looked after’.

We call the ones that haven’t fully told us to ‘fuck off’ the ‘Commonwealth’ and hold lots of PR events like Olympic-esque games and ‘rich monarch waves at people who’s country has a GDP less than their hat largely because we stole all their resources before they could use them to develop’ tours.

[-] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Jesus Christ, do not ever tell an English person that you think Winston Churchill was a monster. Worst mistake of my life. You'd swear I'd shat on his mum's grave.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago

Everyone also thinks the queen was just a passive tourist icon and not an actively supportive participant and cheerleader of that colonialism.

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[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

I remember that old black and white footage of queen whoeverthefuck (victoria?) tossing little pieces of food to the ground for african toddlers to scramble for in the exact same way you or I would feed pigeons in the park.

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[-] privatized_sun@hexbear.net 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Uyghur people are being GENOCIDED simply for their culture of having knifes to demonstrate their manliness (which the CIA used to agitate for terrorist attacks)"

vs

"actually US settlers were right to kill natives because they were scary and had sharp obsidian knives" :scared:

[-] Zuzak@hexbear.net 63 points 1 year ago

When I was in I think 2nd grade I gave a presentation on the Civil War while wearing a costume of a confederate soldier.

I was taught that factory workers in the north had it worse than slaves, that the ~~Civil War~~ War Between the States was about states' rights, that Confederate generals were noble and honorable while Union ones were incompetent drunks who relied on essentially human wave tactics and burning down cities to win. Gone With the Wind was presented to me as an accurate and unbiased depiction of history.

Growing up I definitely had a couple awkward dinner conversations with certain "history buff" relatives where I was like, "Well sure, but still, I mean, obviously we can all agree the South was wrong, right?" and suddenly people start exchanging looks kind-vladimir-ilyich

I actually got a similar reaction once for saying the Crusades were bad, Catholics are fucking wild I tell you.

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was taught that factory workers in the north had it worse than slaves

In Marx's "Theories of Surplus Value" which he never published while he was alive, but was instead compiled from his notes by Kautsky, and then later Riazanov, he called out 1700s reactionary anti-capitalists like Linguet who made these kinds of arguments.

Linguet however is not a socialist. His polemics against the bourgeois-liberal ideals of the Enlighteners, his contemporaries, against the dominion of the bourgeoisie that was then beginning, are given—half-seriously, half-ironically—a reactionary appearance. He defends [...] slavery against wage-labour.

(Linguet was guillotined by the Jacobins lol)

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[-] RedundantClam@hexbear.net 63 points 1 year ago

thinkin-lenin On US education I remember in 8th grade the one thing I learned about Marx was one paragraph and was basically just "he wrote the Communist Manifesto and believed that history was a cycle of conflicts between classes." And I was just like "Well what is communism? Isn't that going to be important going forward?" I guess it wasn't and I never learned what Communism/Socialism actually is or what the USSR did beyond "be authoritarian" until I was an adult.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago

You probably didn't actually learn what capitalism is either until later, given that Marx is the most comprehensive breakdown of how capitalism functions, so much so that even the economics courses at universities use Marx for that part.

The intentional avoidance of teaching how the system works is essential to making sure people don't question it. You don't want your workers knowing how it works, merely accepting it. Understanding how it works is reserved for the ruling class.

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[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago

Tulsa What? Kent State Who?

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago

Manifest Destiny was just a heroic and triumphant settling of new land. so-true

[-] RedDawn@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

I just read to my parents about the Haymarket tragedy and the origins of Mayday, and how the United States freaked out that people all over the world began recognizing that day and in order to cut it off in the US they made May 1st loyalty day and used red scare shit to make sure nobody would demonstrate or do anything on May 1st here lol. They had never heard of any of it.

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