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hoos37 | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +4 
 Agreed. And one of their most powerful techniques was explained very eloquently before it came to be:

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”
George Orwell, 1984
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HODL | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 It’s like the people trying to always convince us that America was a racist sexist torture chamber for anyone who wasn’t a white man. America is a beacon for freedom and has been since inception. It’s not perfect, but it’s the best country we got.
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hoos37 | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Also reminds me of a  quote from Jefferson who said, "There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety."
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Dame | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Native Americans, slaves and their descendants would vehemently disagree with you
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HODL | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Do you know native Americans owned African slaves?
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Dame | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 As did Africans when they defeated tribes at war but there were codes and laws on how to treat them. They also didn’t own them by the hundreds of thousands nor go to war over them. Try again
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HODL | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I’m not trying to convince you of anything.
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El Guiri | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 And that gets captured as a narrative as well. A couple years ago there was a picture of a bunch of american politicians on one knee adorned with african scarves all over the news. I laughed my ass off when i saw it. My wife asked why and i pointed out that the pattern was classic Ashanti. That tribe had a long and distinguished history of slave traficking.