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[-] 31337@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I remember my 4th grade teacher having us read one page about the Daughters of the Confederacy, the teacher briefly discussing the struggles of former slave-owners, and skipping the rest of the chapter on slavery due to "not having enough time." IIRC, even the textbook painted the Daughters of the Confederacy in a positive, or at least neutral light.

I remember my 7th grade health teacher showing us a Christian anti-masturbation video for our sex-ed requirement. This was a rural public school in a northern state. Only other option was a private Catholic school, but my family wasn't Catholic, and my family wouldn't have been able to afford to send me there if they wanted to.

I don't think I even knew about the trail of tears until the middle of high school; and definitely didn't learn about the motivation for hunting Buffalo to extinction.

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[-] 31337@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Definitely not a lie. Could possibly be a case of "parental incompetence," as my parents and grandparents were educated in, what I guess, similarly biased schools (or most likely, even more biased). I don't have a good relationship with my parents, and, perhaps surprisingly, my grandparents are more left-leaning than my parents. I grew up in rural NW Ohio, to be more specific; which used to be a swing state. Most of my peers were racist AF, and most of my past friends are now dead from drug overdoses. I'm, in no means, well traveled, but I'm guessing my life experiences aren't some rare anomaly.

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