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re: What's the biggest myth, you were taught in school as being fact?
Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:26 pm to diddydirtyAubie
Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:26 pm to diddydirtyAubie
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Educate yourself broseph.
Sexuality of Abraham Lincoln
I'm not clicking that shite
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Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:28 pm to Vols&Shaft83
Some hot marfans-on-marfans action. You're missing out.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:29 pm to tylerdurden24
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James Loewen has some excellent books with very thorough research that pretty much proves that History education in America is half-assed at best and students are spoon fed convenient truths because it is simply less time consuming, less confusing, and adheres to the Americanism way we have all been raised (i.e. that America has maybe had a couple of small hiccups but ultimately is always in the right). Would highly recommend reading this one in particular if you haven't already.
I will certainly do that. I can still remember the day in college when I realized how fricked up this country's history was that my high school history teachers never cared to teach, or were too afraid to teach. There is a lot of opportunity in this country, but we have committed some atrocious acts.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:29 pm to tylerdurden24
The first Thanksgiving is another good one. You know, the whole omission of death and disease and all that good stuff.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:31 pm to BluegrassBelle
You mean when the native americans gave the englanders food and the englanders gave the native americans smallpox?
Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:33 pm to MIZ_COU
Or the fact that the first Thanksgiving isn't really the first Thanksgiving. And that something like half of the settlers died in their first year in America.
And don't get me started on pilgrims with buckles on their shoes.
And don't get me started on pilgrims with buckles on their shoes.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:33 pm to MIZ_COU
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What kind?
Network. I know that doesn't count.
This post was edited on 3/17/14 at 7:35 pm
Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:34 pm to BluegrassBelle
Yes but the four day weekend and the turkey is awesome!
Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:36 pm to The Spleen
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There is a lot of opportunity in this country, but we have committed some atrocious acts.
Yeah we suck. We are the most horrible evil country ever ever. EVER
Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:38 pm to The Spleen
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I will certainly do that. I can still remember the day in college when I realized how fricked up this country's history was that my high school history teachers never cared to teach, or were too afraid to teach. There is a lot of opportunity in this country, but we have committed some atrocious acts.
No more fricked up than any other major power in the last millennium or two.
That being said, slavery and the treatment of Native Americans are a black eye.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:38 pm to tylerdurden24
I remember reading that book a while ago and thinking it had some great stuff but also had some complete bullshite in it.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:39 pm to Vols&Shaft83
quote:All kinds of evil shite has gone on in the world. However this country was founded on the greatest genocide in the history of man.
Yeah we suck. We are the most horrible evil country ever ever. EVER
Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:43 pm to MIZ_COU
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All kinds of evil shite has gone on in the world. However this country was founded on the greatest genocide in the history of man.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:44 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
How many kids...heck.. how many of you know that North Korea is the only foreign Gov't that holds a captured U.S. Navy ship? Since 1968.
It's actually used as a museum, not favorable to the U.S., as you might guess.
Although it is still a commissioned vessel, the U.S. never tried to retrieve it.
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The USS Pueblo is an American technical research ship. It was boarded and captured by North Korea on January 23, 1968 at the height of the Vietnam Conflict. Known by military historians as the "Pueblo Affair," the capture of the U.S. Navy ship is considered to be a major event in the Cold War.
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Despite the fact that the USS Pueblo has been held captive by North Korea for more than 40 years, it is still officially known as a "commissioned vessel" of the U.S. Navy.
It's actually used as a museum, not favorable to the U.S., as you might guess.
Although it is still a commissioned vessel, the U.S. never tried to retrieve it.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:45 pm to Alahunter
Now that I did not know. 
Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:46 pm to MIZ_COU
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All kinds of evil shite has gone on in the world. However this country was founded on the greatest genocide in the history of man.
Imma gonna let you finish but I gotta say that Hitler's holocaust was the greatest genocide of all time.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:48 pm to 3nOut
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Imma gonna let you finish
Let him finish. I wanna hear this shite
Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:49 pm to 3nOut
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Imma gonna let you finish but I gotta say that Hitler's holocaust was the greatest genocide of all time
Followed by Stalin's.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:52 pm to Alahunter
quote:I would have said Stalin's first, but that's just me.
Followed by Stalin's.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:57 pm to TeLeFaWx
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Well in Mississippi its either a private school with some religious affiliation, or the worst public education in the Union.
Not really but okay.
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