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When people are way too smug about their wrong answer.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.)

[–] SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another triumphant example of leaving policy-making to the states. :)

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We shouldve shot every confederate politician and southern aristocrat after the civil war. Maybe it couldve stopped this shit.

[–] ph00p@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

[–] fugepe@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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