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Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson wrote this a week after 9/11. (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 51 points 6 months ago (11 children)

I had AP euro teacher like this. Honestly the straight up dishonest bullshit she said is crazy to think about to this day. She was a Lib, too, not that it’s particularly surprising at this point of my life.

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  • [–] 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    my AP euro teacher was a capitalist who taught for the health insurance and because capitalism doesn't require anything from capitalism so he wasn't busy. he's a gigantic ayn rand stan and is on the city council in the town i'm from. most of that high school social sciences department were essentially christofascist nazis.

    edit: my AP u.s. history teacher was a slumlord who taught because he wanted to coach football (and also the health insurance), and he was genuinely one of the dimmest people i've ever met in my entire life.

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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago

    I should count myself lucky that she had “Germinal” by Emile Zola as a book we could read for extra credit. It was many years later that I realized that was a good leftist (well, I don’t know Emile’s politics that well) book, and maybe one of the things that helped me get to where I am today.

    I suspect she hadn’t read it, though.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    My AP US teacher may have secretly been a socialist because he did not pass over American war crimes. He covered My Lai, how the Soviets did the most during WWII, etc.

    My AP Euro teacher, on the other hand, taught us literal Holocaust denial likely stemming from David Irving and was vehemently anti-communist. It's no surprise she ended up getting fired for being a pedophile after her husband caught her with a student.

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    My AP Euro teacher constantly taught us not to commit "ethnocentrism" and he showed us the tank man footage, he was kind of awesome. He was a China guy before it was cool, makes me wonder what his exact ideology is.

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    The anti-cracker-aktion AP World History teacher at my school, which I mercifully managed to avoid having a class with, had a fun class highlight I heard from a friend where

    CW: Racism, SAthe class was covering leaders in modern China. Friend corrects teacher's repeated mispronunciation of "Xi Jinping" to which he responded "Jinping [racist 'chinese name' rhyme] who cares". He also was later shitcanned along with several "hey fellow kids" "cool" teachers for creeping on girls, which tracks.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago*

    Pretty sure they showed me the tank man footage and the told me that was the tanks going to the square to mow over the protestors. And ofc the guy in front of the tanks was “definitely likely killed”

    Edit: honestly thinking about it all it’s really the same vibes as the DARE program. Feed kids bullshit, and it all falls apart once you realize that at least some of it was bullshit. Leading you to dig in and question more

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