dude i am about to boil over this!! I fucking hate our public education system for this reason. They will teach us all year long about every tainted thing the U.S. has done, not so much to educate us on why we should avoid repeating those mistakes, but make us feel ashamed of being called Americans. On the contrary, they will teach us about how wonderful the Mongolians, the Aztecs, and the Mesopotamians were. Never mind that they were all dadgum fucking pagans who sacrificed their children to fucking rocks and wood!! If someone does take the time to google more in preparation for class discussion and learns about this, our teachers just say something a long the lines of "oh well yes, no country is perfect, but these people were so advanced and progressive! And did you know that the Mongolians and the Spartans were the first to treat their women like equals?" They are even worse when we talk about CHICOM or the USSR. But America? Never mind that we have equal opportunity for everyone, fought a fucking revolution so that our people could be represented in their government, have property, and defend their lives and beliefs with whatever means necessary. Never mind that we fought one of the bloodiest wars the world has seen just to end slavery. Never mind that no country is more desirable to immigrants than America. America is just a bunch of self-interested business men who want to oppress minorities and conquer the world. Even when I was in Texas, our curriculum was this way because it was issued by the gov. and you know the commie insurrectionist got their hands all over that shit. 😡
