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Huh the Thanksgiving one I was taught that the Indians were nice to the new arrivals, but within a few short years that niceness was exploited and betrayed.
I guess maybe the welcome feast never occurred? But we certainly were taught the pilgrims drove the Indians out
@MiraLazine love this!! any chance you can add a submission box? (With a section for source cited ofc :p). I'm sure there's a bunch out there that people might think of and want to add.
That's a good idea, thanks! I do have an email listed for now but I know not everyone would want to email someone random so I'll look into adding that in a bit
@MiraLazine also there's the possibility -- you may be at risk of getting flooded with submissions :p
I'm glad to see that none of that was new to me.
Class of '89 here, that was pretty spot on.
Just FYI. Thanksgiving is the original blatant Cultural Appropriation. Thanksgiving was one of 13 harvest feast that the Native Americans in the area would hold each year. That's one of the reasons that Canada and The US celebrate it on different days.
We also stole most of their constitution, except the bit about "no law shall be passed that doesn't directly benefit all the children of the next 7 generations."
They had existed relatively stabley for 25,000 years, and we fucked it up, stole what we wanted, and trashed the rest.
my 5th grade teacher said kurt cobain died of heroin overdose and not a shotgun to the head
We no longer say "committed suicide" because it's no longer a crime.
Otherwise it's great!
Eh, you can commit a lot of acts that aren't crimes.
I'm no expert, just repeating what I've learned in a few suicide prevention classes. Here you can read more if you're interested.
Hey thanks! What's the suggested term instead? This is the first I'm hearing of the term differences so wanna fix it up
Pretty accurate. My mom was very much invested in our education and contradicted a lot of this info when I was growing up so I learned the true facts.
I’m very grateful that everything in there got debunked by my high school teachers
Very cool