re: #41 Shiplord Kirel

Do they not know that secession was a direct response to the election…

Just stop there, dude.

When you teach kids history from the perspective of American exceptionalism, you turn history into a comic book.

You can’t blame them, because that’s how it’s taught in schools. Most don’t even have world history as anything more than an elective these days, and some don’t even have that. Many see any attempt to teach history as an actual complicated, constantly changing competition of ideologies and self-interests as “revisionism” and reject it outright. If it isn’t “America! Fuck yeah!” then it’s not worthy of consideration.

The same mindset can also be turned inwards, and used to isolate a party’s current ideology from the messiness of history.