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[–] 18 points 1 month ago (1 child)

My AP history teacher gave us copies of Zinn's A People's History of the United States as a supplemental to our textbooks. She was an awful teacher overall, but I appreciated her trying to make sure we had multiple perspectives.

Then I went to an elite east-coast private college, where I almost failed US History because I called the professor out for teaching Lost Cause bullshit.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Any academic peddling lost cause bullshit is a complete joke. Just curious, were they from the south?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    Of course they were.

    He also characterized the 2000 election as "a perfect tie" that could've just as easily been decided by a coinflip instead of the more historically agreed upon view of the Supreme Court ratfucking Florida's recount.

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