The Boston massacre was basically an anti-police riot that turned into a police shooting. The police were acquitted of the murder, which lead to more protests and an eventual revolution. Anytime someone says “real Americans support the police,” I point back to that.
The local police in the nearby “pieceful” (verry rich) subarb tend to portray themselves as “just folks helping out (we also enforce bylaws)”. the local city tends to have cops blatently break the law.
The antagonism is easy to see in the city. In the former, the former gives off a diffrent and hidden kind of oppression that Im in a position to only see the outer edge of (i dont live there).
Well put. I’d never thought of it that way.
That’s a complete load of bullshit and it’s sad people like you go through life thinking your fantasies are reality.
Here is wiki article, read to your hearts content, unless you think wikipedia is a load of fantasies as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre
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And the textbooks have been marginally sanitized even then.
If Americans told the truth*
They can read it was about taxes but they won’t get to read about the colonies being pissed about fair treatment to the Natives for their help in the 7 years war (fair is relative: read it as respecting their borders and claims to America)
So, in order, taxes evasion, war, secession, wars, racism, wars, poor labour laws, wars and racism again?
Seems to be a pattern
Saddest thing among Americans is that they’ve been brainwashed into thinking they were the good guys in the revolution.
The revolution occurred because Britain took on a massive amount of debt to save Americans from the French and Natives. Britain wanted Americans to pay them back, but Americans just said ‘no’ and that’s how we began fighting for our independence.
Our ancestors are shitbags. Plain and simple. “Opportunity” and “laissez-faire” are so important to American culture because they revolve around the idea “if you can get away with it, do it.”
“The British defended their colony out of the kindness of their own heart and America was ungrateful” is… a take.
Well, it was their colony. I’m not sure where you’re getting the ‘kindness of their own heart’ from.
Probably because you’re biased and need to supplant legitimate arguments with ones that are easier for you to argue against.
The fact is that the colonies needed British help to win the French and Indian War. They got the help they needed and then decided they weren’t going to repay those who helped them. It was a shitty move supported by greedy scumbags who got to shape the rest of the nation in their image.
How about you try arguing with what’s actually said instead of supplanting it with what sounds nice in your head? You’d come across as less reddit-brained if you do so.
Yea, the funny thing is they were also shit to the people who helped them gain their independence afterwards like the French when the Americans argued their obligations were null and void once the aristocracy was overthrown.
Wow. What next? calling someone a nazi if they were even dare to acknowledge that Americans weren’t all that great during WWII what with dropping atomic bombs on schools?
Your brainwash game is deep.
Lol what a leap. Nah man, America is full of bad terrible shit and unfounded patriotism, but the revolution take is just a bad one.
Terrible shit like doing their own eugenics of sterilizing ‘unfit’ with an incredibly open definition of the word.
The only reason no one paid the price is everyone was looking over at the 6 million dead as 60k is just a drop in the bucket. They were after all, mainly going after POC. Which were defined as 1/5th of a human
So no. Not a leap.
Joshua Fit For Battle - Contents Of An American History Class
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP862vW9WJE
Relentless imperialistic fucks
Eye glassed with drugs of power and conquest
Greed kills
Establish a history relationship
And turn around and stab them in the back
Guns and disease destroyed a whole culture
Victims on their backs, rotting
Seeping, suffering
Suffering, suffering
Suffering
This is our fucking history
This is our fucking history
History repeats itself and always will
Thank you for transcribing the lyrics, because I couldn’t understand them in the first 30 seconds and I wasn’t willing to continue listening after that.
The message is good, the instrumentalists are proficient, but the vocals are painful. It was less “Rage Against The Machine” and more “Tantrum Against The Melody”.
That book is: https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/peoples-history/
I have that book, but can’t read it. /s
Because you were homeschooled by religious fundamentalists, or because you went to a public school controlled by them?
Because i wont go agains my country! Take that, evil books! ligther spark /s
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There is a crazy amount of cognitive dissonance in this thread. Show me a single other modern society that didn’t have serious and deeply ingrained racial and societal problems from the start. We can only move forward and do better, which is happening slowly. Put a magnifying glass on any country’s past and you’ll drum up all sorts of nasty shit. But people just love to shit on the US so here we are
conservative attitude is to deny or diminish anything wrong with history. same can be seen in Turkey. I think what is criticized is that denial, not that there was anything wrong. because as you said every country has their skeletons.
As someone whose government disappeared 43 students who were protesting in 2014, and opened fire on defenseless civilians protesting the summer Olympics in 1968 killing upwards of 350, I say you’re not wrong. Hi, neighbor.
You only missed the point by an observable universe’s length.
The US has been drunk on the delusion of how noble and benevolent we consider ourselves since World War II.
We like to conveniently forget that at the time, many Americans looked up to the Nazis and were embracing eugenics. We were legally sterilizing subjective “undesirables,” often without their knowledge, and we had no plans to do shit until the Axis, already steeped in conflict, decided to attack us directly from half a world away, committing one of the greatest self-inflicted tactical blunders in history thankfully.
America is all about subjugation, exploitation, and genocide. It just got a propaganda team to soften the way in which it talks about it since the mid 20th century.
At the end of the day, that’s the magic of America: bullshitting. Lying. To ourselves and others. From “all men* are created equal” (Only applies to wealthy Caucasian land owners) to “manifest destiny” (genocide the people that already live here because its our destiny) to “separate but equal”(even apex American bullshitters couldn’t say this one with a straight face) to “turning the bull loose”(get back to work slaves, this isn’t a society) to “don’t ask, don’t tell” (we refuse to accept you as a human being, but hey come die gruesomely so our greedy fucks can access foreign oil markets). Our bullshit machine runs so deep, we are a
nationcapital exploitation farm that practically doubles as a religion.People also forget that the people who came to the New World to escape religious persecution were being persecuted because their beliefs were so radical that no one wanted to deal with their bullshit anymore.
Yep!
And we’re still the sexuality phobic weirdos of the developed world, which stems out of our puritanical backwards forerunners.
Glorification of gruesome, bloody hyperviolence all day baby, we’ll show it on a loop on the news for the kiddos! Don’t forget to like and subscribe!
One flaccid dick or vagina in public, on the other hand, and everyone loses their minds!
This is an us thing. We are the prudes of the developed western world. “Omg a boobie AAAAHHHH my child is scarred for life!“
If there’s one thing I know about the US, it’s that everyone is afraid of boobies.
Hurrr duurrr am lemmy user I hate america huurrr duurrr
Your alternative is what? China? Russia? Iran?
Have fun living there buddy. I’m staying in the west.
Being critical of your countries past and/or present actions doesn’t mean you hate it. America is far from perfect but I still love it.
I 100% agree
But captioning your post with “If Americans Could Read” says otherwise. And the general opinions on Lemmy say otherwise. People here hate America, hate the west, and are against everything the west values.
And to these people my comment is relevant.
Oh IDK, maybe something like Sweden, Denmark, Norway, New Zealand, etc… or any of THESE?
Best countries to live in 2023.
You think America is the only county in “the west”?
Great for people born in these countries. Now what about the rest of the world?
Winning the birth lottery isn’t an achievement. Trying to make the world better - is.
And that’s not to shame nordic countries for their achievement - they’re doing most things right - but their challenge is so much easier compared to the U.S that it’s ridiculous to compare them. Sweden doesn’t need to face ISIS or Bin Laden committing terror on their territory or threatening their countries existence (although sweden’s r@pe statistics say they do have a problem…)
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