Except very little really did happen in Tiananmen Square, so it’s not really equivalent.
There are some pretty radical US teachers who don’t teach American mythology, and unless they’re in Florida or another state banning CRT and gender-affrming sex-ed, they aren’t breaking the law in the process.
MOVE bombings, what MOVE bombings? That’s not part of the history curriculum.
We had battles against them
This is a good example of the problem. This is a ludicrous way to talk about a genocide. Yes there were battles, but that was a tiny part of the history and most of those battles were just massacres anyways. Should we talk about the Holocaust in these terms? I’m sure some Jewish person managed to kill a Nazi between 1933 and 1945. Should we discuss the battles between Jews and Nazis?
i’m glad you were taught some actual history. as someone raised in the south we never covered literally any of that. it was just manifest destiny, “the first thanksgiving!” then a hard cut directly to the civil war, and then from there to WWII with nothing in-between. no genocides, no wars, no nothing.
In my school, we touched on some of that but with the undercurrent that it’s all ancient history. I got through history class with the impression that these were bad things done long ago, and I assume it’s the same for you.
As an example to illustrate my point, were you taught in school about the forced sterilization of many indigineous women that began in the 70s?
I definitely remember reading about the trail of tears in a small town US high School
Most Americans hate American politicians and the shitty things they’ve done.
it wasn’t “american politicians”. it was americans. even if the government helped, it was common americans, poor and rich, who murdered and repressed natives every day until the land was solidly occupied. and while everyone in the country can be perfectly able to recognize the shitty things they’ve done, they’re absolutely incapable of admitting the terrible things they’re supporting and doing today. they live in a constant cycle of “oh we’ve done a baddie” into “no i’m not doing anything bad this time” into “oh i guess that was bad as well sorry” into “no i’m sure i’m not doing anything wrong this time”
the average american was evil back then and remains evil as fuck to this day, because that’s what not being an anti-imperialist leftist tends to mean if you live right in the middle of the imperial core
