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[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 34 points 1 week ago

I don't know what history books y'all read but the one I got wasn't shy about the shit we've got on our heads, even if some previously lesser known atrocities weren't part of the material

[-] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 16 points 1 week ago

My schools and textbooks weren't shy about the acts of evil that were committed, but somehow found ways to speak highly of those involved in said acts

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Because people can do good things and horrible things in their life. Essentially no one is universally evil in everything they do.

[-] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

I agree with that 100%! I still think it's weird that we national holidays to celebrate slave owners, regardless of what good things they did that have no relation to their owning of slaves.

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

To ignore slave owner and slavery apologists we'd have to get rid of all abrahamic religious holidays leaving... Juneteenth, Labor Day, MLK Day, and Veterans Day. Those are fine holidays- but not exactly the most festive/family fun.

I think the British(under Churchill) made starvation of hundreds of thousands of colonial subjects was horrible, those same people can still be celebrated for fighting Hitler though.

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