Political Memes

Age may play a large role here.

It all depends on the state. You were in a state that respects education.

In Florida, DeSantis declared that they weren't going to be teaching anything that made white kids ashamed of being white. They don't like kids knowing about Native Americans and Slavery.

I bet they didn't mention israel. That's completely taboo in the Epstein Empire.

When I was in elementary school my teacher said it was cool that the natives got pushed off the land and into reservations because we could make better use of the land. The same teacher also handed out worksheets wherein you had to choose the right gender for the right profession.

Well OP does say they didn't pay attention in class lmaooo. My public school teachs all that and it's mandatory education in Illinois

I can't think of anything either. I remember learning about "learning styles", which ended up being debunked.

Something something schools bad. The conservative version of this is college radicalizes.

I'm 43. We didn't get any of that shit.

I was lucky. In school, I had more than one teacher say "y'know, you don't have to say that. Especially if you're from another nation." So I just used the time to do homework late.

I think my critical thinking skills were switched on a bit later at 21,

Oh well, better later than never I suppose

Yeah, it happens. I was a little edgy nazi shithead in my early teens. Brain development is crazy not gonna lie. Did a full 180 myself

i went to public highschool in Texas where our football coach taught finance and history due to teacher shortage.

:D I learned that North Korea killed more people than any other country on earth and, Germans were communists during world war 2

He is kinda special case tho. It's usually textbooks casually hiding facts like segregation.

we spend several years learning about all the presidents (knowledge we will never use again), then we briefly gloss over native genocide (who lived happily ever after once Thanksgiving was invented), then slavery ended with the civil war, fascism ended with world wars I and II, then MLK Jr ended racism when he is shot (probably by the FBI, but we weren't told that), then we learn that communism is bad and ended with the cold war

So,... it's like this, yo.

In the US in the 90's and 2000's, it's not as though we were particularly lied to in regards to world history, but when it came to national shit like Black Monday or the Civil Rights movement, it was more-or-less glazed over or certain parts were omitted entirely, or certain historical figures were just given completely different motivations.

"Uh, the south wasn't racist, it was taxes and economics, and such..."

"The Pinkertons? Whoms't've? Never heard of them!"

We'd still get Greece, Rome, Europe, Africa and Asia generally unaltered... with some favoritism to Canada and Mexico, but not when it came to Russia and communism or anything regarding anything that isn't capitalism and man, school hated on Cuba.

Asia was glazed over massively, not in the hiding anything sense, more of a "who cares?" sense. Social Studies/History was almost always US-centric at all times. We learned more about Japan from anime than school.

The daily pledge is real, but as for curriculum, it really depends on your state. In my school, we learned a lot about the Trail of Tears and native genocide, the exploitation of Asian immigrants to build our railroads, our failures in Vietnam, Jim Crow laws and the horrible things the KKK did, etc. This was in a red state about 15 years ago. I'm a bit surprised by the lack of propaganda.

What's frightening is ultra-red states (like Florida) that are starting to rewrite their history books to include things like "slavery allowed black people to become Americans and they're better off for it :D"