"This is the system. This is how the system works. Here's a very condensed, ultra-simplified version of American history."

So from what I remember it was less "the left cares about society and the right cares about the economy" and more "the left cares about society, the left also cares about the economy, and we're not going to say it outright but we can imply that because we, the left, are the good guys, then.. *they're* the bad guys."

yeah, so basically "left = good, right = bad" mentality

It wasn't until I was in high school with a very unorthodox teacher (at times) that I was even introduced to the concept that it's not automatically a good thing that a) everyone thinks the same way or b) that everyone is on the left.

Also, coincidentally, my first experience with one of those political spectrum tests.

Of which, I, and pretty much everyone in the class ended up left/lib, roughly 2/3rds closer to the middle than the outer edge.

There's a reason why this conditioning is so damn difficult to break I imagine.

It's the same shit that happens to kids born into ultra religious families.

the trick, is getting a hot chick to explain right-wing politics, trust me 😛 it will all make sense

Hah.

i imagine you probably get a skewed american history lesson about republicans too

like did they even mention how the KKK assassinated hundreds of white republicans for their views? or that it was a republican that wrote the 13th amendment?

Im not saying theyre the same party as they were then...

It's honestly all a blur. The most I remember is that because of the string of constant moves I basically ended up relearning the exact same stuff over and over again in slightly greater detail each time.

I remember that they taught us that the cause of the civil war was primarily because of slavery and that abraham lincoln was the president ultimately involved in freeing them.

Though I don't recall them mentioning his political affiliation or anything.

nor his skin color 🤔

Wasn't Lincoln what we'd consider today as fairly right?

Well, he was a republican.

thats another thing that kind of annoys me about the alt right.... when they say crap like "white people ended slavery" its like... no.. not really... it was British and Americans... not "white people"

Well that's just identity politics in a nutshell, right?

Alt right kinda started up *because* of identity politics of the left.

well, at the time, 90% of brits and americans WERE white, so its kind of semantics,
but then again, if it were up to the alt-right, white people invented the human race

and from the other side "white people started slavery" ... like... white people didnt even EXIST when slavery started 😛

So if you define everything by identity, they were right. Whether or not that truly matters in the grand scheme of things is another thing entirely.

>conveniently forgetting it was a slave **trade**

how about all fucks of the western world forgot that "Slavery" was coined based on the White "SLAVS" of eastern europe

`blyat`

cyka

jokes aside 😛 its literally where the word came from

`Just another non-issue.`

so black people aren't even allowed to use the slavery card!

yeah but thats just a language thing

its us Slavs who were the first to be enslaved! 😛

its not called Enblackment! 😛

Don't give them ideas.

haha

i think america could be more inclusive if they got rid of the term "african american" ... i think the US is the only country in the world that does that

well duh, you're not gonna make much sense if you call a black guy in Europe an "african American"

Don't people already do that?

Also the term itself is kind of.. hilarious.