• EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      7 months ago

      Yeah Im more offended over America’s blatant omission of history rather than the complete fabrication of it.

      Shit like the 8 hour work day, the fact that the children are even inside a classroom learning this drivel instead of working at the daw mill or slaughterhouse, desegregation and civil rights. These things didn’t magically happen or even organically happened. Communists, socialists, anarchists, and hell even some liberals fought, killed, and died for this shit. Not just on the streets against cops and your neighborhood racist, but in the mountains and fields with machine guns against American soldiers as well. The US was scared shitless of the USSR because so much of the country was suffering that their possible sympathies with communism was a national security concern.

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      7 months ago

      AKA the same stuff they’ve been teaching American students since the Eisenhower administration.

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      Yes, and next month will be the section on the “Trail of Happy Tears”

    • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]@hexbear.net
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      how exactly do they think this is going to play out?

      Teacher: Communism is bad because Stalin killed people.

      Student: So all Stalin had to do was not kill people and communism would have worked?

      Teacher: No, the ideology made Stalin kill people.

      Student: So Stalin did not have free will?

      Teacher: No, free will exists, don’t be a dirty Calvinist, Stalin was willingly following Marx’s ideology to the letter.

      Student: So how did the ideology create the regularly recurring famines that happened for centuries until the 50s, cause the kulaks to burn their own food, or the Western powers to sanction the USSR before the USSR had done anything wrong? What part of Marx’s writings caused this?

      Teacher: I’m legally required to report all dissenters to the Department of Freedom.