Not the Internet but I was taught a lot of bullshit about the native Americans willingly giving up land to the settlers and all that instead of, y'know, the massive attempted genocidal slaughter that took place.
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I presume that might be a regional thing, because I was taught in 8th grade US history class about some of the atrocious things we did to the natives. And to a lesser extent about what my state did specifically in the history class for my specific state.
Trail of tears was assigned reading when I went to school. Granted quite a while ago.
Same, this is literally the first I've heard about the natives just "giving up and making way" for the Europeans. I recall being taught about the trail of tears and how we forced them off their land by any means necessary. Then again I grew up in a liberal city on the East Coast so my experiences probably aren't universal.
That's red state hillbilly education system for ya
In my US schools, they taught most of the atrocities. Some of my teachers were Black, I even had teacher who is a Muslim (so its not a Christian-Eurocentric perspective when it comes to World History, Civics and Social Studies)
Here's the top 3 things most people in the US have not heard about:
- redacted
- redacted
- and redacted
Seems like some folks from the SCP foundation got loose.
I hesitate to post both of these, because I don't wanna get into conspiracy stuff. But both are not well known, and I hear a lot of it keeps getting deleted.
EDIT: The first one appears to be quite popular in podcasts and tabloids. So I'll just say it's an interesting mystery, where I have no idea what gets deleted and what doesn't.
Many questions about the case of: Gabriela Rico Jiménez
Warning: pretty dark rabbit hole
And quite a lot of stuff pointing towards Ghislaine Maxwell having been a reddit supermod: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/r45a5n/here_is_the_evidence_that_reddit_user_maxwellhill/
Well that Maxwell one is just fascinating. Highly convincing too.
If it hasn't already, that post and its links need to be archived.
The metric system
Classified stuff the CIA does when messing around where it doesn't belong.
DIY HRT for minors. every time KOSA pops up again, that's the government trying to stop a trans kid from living
Nice try, government censor.
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It's weird, all I see is hunter2.
given what is out there its scary as shit to think of what is so bad they would want to hide it. I mean epstein obviously.
Knowledge in general, they just call that "copyright infringement"