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lol Superman was a dick. Maybe a woke dick, but still a dick.
Even most European textbooks portray the USA accurately, except maybe the current Hungarian ones, which allegedly are following Republican depictions of the US history.
For someone completely out of the comic scene for some decades, who is the guy on the right?
This meme is just explaining the entire point of Homelander’s character, like… yes.
Bro I made this meme. No one could possibly understand the super subtle nuance of fucking homelander. You’re not cultured like me. I saw it first. Stop making fun of me or I’ll cry.
Thank you! It’s not even subtle satire.
The difference between satire and parody. Homelander is not a Superman parody. I mean he’s that too (or something from the MArvel universe, I can’t keep up) but the real world commentary (satire) is the point.
Been like this for thousands of years. Next time you read a story about a great character in history, know that they may have in fact been an ancient Elon Musk or ancient Trump, just inflating their own deeds and surrounded by people more than willing to carve their names into stone.
Reality is far more banal and irritating than we want it to be, that’s why so many of us spin up wild narratives and live in that world of drama and suspense instead of doing more to take care of the reality we share and live in.
Hitler wrote about how much he admired how we treated our natives and aspired to recreate the process in Germany.
The Nazi’s looked at US segregation laws to figure out how to remove civil rights from certain groups. Hitler bad, but at that period of time talking to a white woman was a lynching for a black man in Amurica.
That didn’t stop until 1981.
Yeah people who didn’t live through it often don’t realize we (USA) didn’t invade Germany to end the Holocaust; we did it because they declared war on us and we wanted to stop them from killing more Americans.
If Germany had minded their own genocide of minorities and borders, the US (and many other countries) probably never would have intervened.
we did it because they declared war on us and we wanted to stop them from killing more Americans.
uh, no. Americans only got interested in WW2 after US investments in England were being threatened.
If Germany had minded their own genocide of minorities and borders, the US (and many other countries) probably never would have intervened.
Horrific, isn’t it?
Did it really stop in 1981?
But I had a black student refuse to drive in a car to a retreat in NC because the other occupants were white girls. That was 2000. That was the camel’s back moment that told me it was time to leave the USA.
And the worst part is that the vast majority of our population actually has no idea, and if you try to teach it, they’ll run you out of town for disturbing the mythology that’s been implanted in their heads.
I’m in my forties and still learning new awful things about our country’s history. No one ever taught me about Sand Creek or Blair Mountain, or Tulsa, or the Knights of Labor and the violent railway strikes.
There are also awful little details that are left out, like how one of the landmarks Paul Revere used on his famous ride (hiding the awful part under a spoiler tag)
spoiler
was a mummified slave in a gibbet, whose tarred body was just left out for decades as a public spectacle to dissuade rebellion.
Here’s an account of the story I referenced: Mark Hung in Chains
Now do native americans.
It’s gotten better, at least. My school had modern textbooks when I was growing up, but I remember one of my middle school history teachers, who was old enough to have taught a Black school during segregation (and was, naturally, scathing about the cruelty and hypocrisy of segregation despite being a white guy), talking about the kind of things textbooks used to peddle as recently as the 90s.
He was a cool guy.
I grew up in a liberal city and once I got to middle school, they started teaching all the ugly stuff in US history (I went to middle school and high school around 2016 to 2021, years slightly obfuscated for privacy reasons)
talking about the kind of things textbooks used to peddle as recently as the 90s.
As recently as the '90s? Or as recently as last year.
The Florida State Board of Education’s new standards [as of 2023] includes controversial language about how “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit”
As recently as the 90s in my area, I should have said. I… don’t doubt that many areas are still fucking terrible on the matter, both by use of old textbooks and by whatever the fuck the GOP is pushing in red states.
Can confirm, went to elementary school in the 90s, and the lunch room had a mural of the Land Rush in it. The Land Rush was the day the government went “sike” and fucked over the Trail of Tears victims even more.
We even had a special day every year where they gave us bag lunches and we went out to the playground to larp stealing land from the natives.
Edit: wiki link for what I’m talking about lol
Second edit, in case you think I was being hyperbolic about larping as a small child, I present a newspaper article showing they’re still fucking doing it in 2013: https://archive.is/nz8uQ
Okay, Boomer
My best history teacher had me read Lies My Teacher Told Me outside of class and compare it to what we were learning. Finished it in a week (didn’t have any major gigs in February) and then spent the rest of the week just sitting there trying to figure out what the distance between the two positions was. It was a lot to rattle around in my empty skull. I think I got his point, but he refused to tell me what it was. Good dude, he was. Is. I dunno, he could still be around.
It also reflects in who is perceived as the ‘villains’ and ‘innocents’.
The books depict greedy villains and helpless vulnerable victims
Reality those ‘helpless vulnerable victims’ are rich tycoons and the ‘villains’ are everyone else.
More like:
vs.
George and Chris didn’t use fake muscles like modern supermen.
They’re the same picture.
Perfect representation
American history in American textbooks*
It’s just impossible for 'Muricans to think about the rest of the world and understand it’s different to their experience.
