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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The rhetoric around the innocent friendliness between Native Americans and Pilgrims was such hogwash. So was the argument that the Civil War was fought for "economic" reasons.

I don't understand what's with the dismissive comments, rolling eye emojis, and the like. Do you people really support revisionist history being taught to our nation's children? Do you really think it's no big deal?[/quote] If you are concerned with revisionist history you should be concerned with all revisionist history. My son goes to a liberal private and studied comparative history. The current trend is to ignore or diminish contributions of white men and focus on contributions of women and minority's even if that warps the facts or places greater emphasis lessor contributions. For one part of the class kid who identified as conservative had to read a history book written with a liberal bend. Kids who identified as liberal had to read a book with a conservative bend. Needless to say it was an eye opening experience. Sadly, history is always Bering distorted. Whether or not someone finds the distortions offensive seems to relate to whether or not the distortions coincide with their narrow views.[/quote]

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