People on this site trying to deny the genocide the Soviet Union and China committed

Or something about it helping the economy

Also feel like they try to downplay the fact that MLK was killed by the government

Look on the brightside: people are learning

Killed Fred Hampton too

I mean in elementary school history was basic but in high school all my history classes went in depth and through overview of US history good and bad. Same for European history classes too.

sometimes it's a good thing, sometimes it just makes people dumber if they don't get all the facts organized in context

Feel like they try to make it seem the USA entered WW2 because they are the heroes, and the Americans in general as a whole opposed hitler greatly. I know not all people in the us at the time liked hitler but it seems like a good amount didn’t care about what was going on

People in remedial history wondering why they only covered basic concepts

I arrived on the day Fred Hampton died

To be fair I grew up in a low income area & the schools I went to were trash so a lot of this is extremely surprising to me

nah im not tryna diss or anything, the main reason I even said that is because there's not many asian people on this site and sometimes im too lazy to fact check or argue with people about asian history / asian s*** lol

the U.S. didn't know much about the extent of the situation in nazi germany throughout much of WWII. americans knew something was going on, and that jews were being persecuted heavily. but it wasn't until after the fighting and liberation of camps that made everybody say what the f***.

it is kinda irrelevant tho since the reason we got involved was the pacific theatre.

Didn’t the US hire Nazi scientists and turn them into full fledged US citizens for information

You listed a bunch of injustices, not attempts to rewrite history.

I remember learning about communism in South America in high school and not ONCE did they mention the CIA.

Injustices that aren’t being taught or emphasized in history classes lol

I’m sure it’s common knowledge that racism in America & the atrocities against black peoples are severely downplayed in attempts to salvage America’s dark past

Yup, Operation Paperclip. There were also several US companies that worked with the Nazis before & after WW2 started.

Wtf

Why go to war with them if they were so dam cooperative tf

They already teach that America oppressed black people, so excluding (not reframing) an event doesn't change the narrative. Better examples would be the distortion of the civil rights era and what it resulted in, or the reframing of US Imperialism as "world policing."

did you guys get your education in arkansas or stop after 8th grade because you learn most of this stuff in high school/college

Watchmen and Lovecraft Country on HBO talking about the Tulsa massacre brought to light a lot of those atrocities that happened, for me

also there is much more to history than the last 300 years and the us

But don’t you think sugar coating the darkest moments of American & African American history is the reason why people over look the black struggle ?

It’s also the reason why people think the reparations are nonsensical, America should just forget about slavery & it’s affects on the black community

I can’t help but feel as if the United States doesn’t teach us about the dark parts of that era for a reason

Where are you from because the schools are went to were really bad lol