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A Boring Dystopia

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The fact that there are any "proud Americans" shows what a joke the subject of history must be in US high schools.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I was a junior in 2001. Had an elective history class that a lot of honors students, myself included, were in. This particular class was called "Holocaust", and it was basically German history 1930-1945.

That teacher was very easy to take off track. One day, late October, we got to talking about the PATRIOT act. I remember being totally in awe of how many people, my peers, were in favor of it, and didn't see it as a bad idea.