• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is the shit you get when your knowledge of history is based solely on broadcasts from your preferred 24-hour news network and/or Youtube.

    Apparently reading history books is hard.

    (Also, for everyone here, read up on Benjamin Lay. The founding fathers knew what piece of shit slavers they were because there was at least one prominent person willing to tell them in the Mid-1700’s.)

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      1 year ago

      More than one person in this thread have commented that they were taught this at school…

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      1 year ago

      Lincoln wanted to send the blacks back to Africa. Many in fact didn’t see them as humans tbh.

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      1 year ago

      The guy gets his history from Tiktok.

      HistoryTok is way more fun than real history, it changes when the most popular video says something. Doesn’t have to be fact based or remotely correct, but has more likes.