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re: What's the biggest myth, you were taught in school as being fact?
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:01 pm to Alahunter
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:01 pm to Alahunter
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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.
Mao, Leopold II, Hideki Tojo, Nicholas II, Yahya Khan, Pol Pot, Ismail Enver Pasha also all have body counts that dwarf the "Greatest genocide in this history of man" that founded this country.
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Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:03 pm to 3nOut
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No more fricked up than any other major power in the last millennium or two.
Of course not, but I could have been spared all the rah-rah greatest country ever bullshite.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:04 pm to The Spleen
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Of course not, but I could have been spared all the rah-rah greatest country ever bullshite.
Is there another place you'd rather live?
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:05 pm to The Spleen
I agree that we do ignore a lot of our past on some (huge) issues but I do encourage the idea of realistic American exceptionalism.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:05 pm to 3nOut
Well Hitler's was 5 million killed and the native americans were 20 million killed by the more conservative estimates
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:06 pm to Vols&Shaft83
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Is there another place you'd rather live?
I don't know, I've never lived any other place. I don't hate this country. I hate the way this country candy coats its history.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:07 pm to Alahunter
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What's the biggest myth, you were taught in school as being fact?
That protons, neutrons, and electrons were the most fundamental particles of matter.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:07 pm to The Spleen
quote:Name a country that doesn't do that.
I hate the way this country candy coats its history.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:08 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
quote:Ummm Monoco?
Name a country that doesn't do that.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:09 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
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Name a country that doesn't do that.
I've heard the entire continent of Antarctica is pretty humble.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:10 pm to Vols&Shaft83
Greenland?
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:10 pm to Vols&Shaft83
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Yeah we suck. We are the most horrible evil country ever ever. EVER
He's not wrong. And I'd rather see teachers not sugar coat for the sole reason of learning from past mistakes. Still doesn't mean this country isn't a great place to live. You can be critical of things in this country.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:11 pm to MIZ_COU
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Ummm Monoco?
You mean Monaco?
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:11 pm to Vols&Shaft83
quote:I don't know, the five people on there post a lot of sunshine pumping statuses about that place.
I've heard the entire continent of Antarctica is pretty humble.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:13 pm to MIZ_COU
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Greenland?
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:20 pm to MIZ_COU
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Well Hitler's was 5 million killed and the native americans were 20 million killed by the more conservative estimates
Absolute horseshite. You do realize that up to 90% of the Native American population was wiped out before the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock by a little thing called Small-Pox.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:20 pm to PrivatePublic
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That protons, neutrons, and electrons were the most fundamental particles of matter.
Life gets a lot more confusing if you break it down more. The classical model that has them all as fun little spheres with unit charges makes for an easy lesson.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:21 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
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Name a country that doesn't do that.
I don't know, I've never lived in another country nor taken a history class in another country.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:22 pm to BluegrassBelle
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You can be critical of things in this country.
Sure, I'm often critical of things in this country. Criticism is fine, ignorant criticism is not IMO.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:24 pm to The Spleen
quote:Me either, but I've seen history textbooks that the Russians, Germans, Japanese, Chinese and others put out that put bigger slants on history than us.
I've never lived in another country
quote:Now this I have done.
taken a history class in another country.
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