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LeftInTX

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32. Yes, that too. I don't remember learning about it. However, Auschwitz was required reading in our HS.

Tue Dec 26, 2023, 04:41 PM

Dec 2023

Wisconsin schools were mostly German/Polish/Irish/Scandinavian/Dutch/Czech etc.

There were Italian/Native American/ and Jewish minorities.

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161 years ago today, the largest mass execution in U.S. history took place, ordered by A. Lincoln [View all] WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2023 OP

Important OP malaise Dec 2023 #1

You can say that again! FM123 Dec 2023 #2

Look up the US Dakota war elias7 Dec 2023 #5

This message was self-deleted by its author JohnSJ Dec 2023 #6

I looked it up and your numbers are off. Also, the native Americans attacked because they were being ethnically Celerity Dec 2023 #11

You mean like the folks in malaise Dec 2023 #13

No, just pointing out that things are not the black and white simplicity initially posted elias7 Dec 2023 #22

So, yeah, one genocide for the 'good if the nation' deserves another. TeamProg Dec 2023 #38

'Thank you' for informing us of this awful piece of U.S. history. elleng Dec 2023 #14

I was just reading the section on the war at the UMN Holocaust and Genocide niyad Dec 2023 #16

Thanks for additional history, I had just copied and pasted from a quick search elias7 Dec 2023 #21

fair enough Celerity Dec 2023 #27

still, there's no doubt that native Americans committed horrible acts of terrorism on white settlers LymphocyteLover Dec 2023 #39

The whites invaded the natives' lands and committed monumental amounts of ethnic cleansing and genocide for Celerity Dec 2023 #40

that doesn't change the fact that native Americans terrorized white communities and committed horrible LymphocyteLover Dec 2023 #42

Native Americans were, on balance, decimated, genocided, and ethnically cleansed. Celerity Dec 2023 #43

We actually did look it up, and it was even more horrible than niyad Dec 2023 #18

History we never learned in school. multigraincracker Dec 2023 #3

The history most of us learned in school was far different. sop Dec 2023 #17

True. LeftInTX Dec 2023 #25

I recall in school that the WWII Japanese internment camps during the FDR presidency were barely mentioned in passing. MichMan Dec 2023 #28

Yes, that too. I don't remember learning about it. However, Auschwitz was required reading in our HS. LeftInTX Dec 2023 #32

The spotlight of history. The further back in time the more light is needed. erronis Dec 2023 #29

thank you, and this is the information that the rs would just love to bury. ie coverup. AllaN01Bear Dec 2023 #4

What Delphinus Dec 2023 #7

We were taught this in 6th grade sarisataka Dec 2023 #8

Yeah, I remember learning about this in high school. Elessar Zappa Dec 2023 #9

303 Dakota men were sentenced to death Martin Eden Dec 2023 #10

I was gonna say this as well ITAL Dec 2023 #23

Thanks for the information. Butterflylady Dec 2023 #12

I'm not sure "catching up" is the right phrase... Happy Hoosier Dec 2023 #15

Or from the 20th and 21st centuries people Dec 2023 #19

And probably as many more centuries as we live. erronis Dec 2023 #30

A Good Read Puppyjive Dec 2023 #20

Lincoln's statements in ordering the executions (via Wikipedia): rapists first, then those who massacred civilians andym Dec 2023 #24

Read Over the Earth I Come by Duane Schultz Sneederbunk Dec 2023 #26

Next read about wounded knee isitreal Dec 2023 #31

It is important that ALL of history be taught, no matter how painful it might be. So maybe it may never happen again. Evolve Dammit Dec 2023 #33

Lincoln wasn't perfect COL Mustard Dec 2023 #34

Free school lunches. National Health Care. Reproductive Freedom. Voting rights. gulliver Dec 2023 #35

The extrajudicial execution of 300 Lakota Ghost Dancers TexLaProgressive Dec 2023 #36

Wow, history needs to be truth, and not just feel goods. Bluethroughu Dec 2023 #37

Recommend, "Six Encounters with Lincoln" - Elizabeth Brown Pryor bucolic_frolic Dec 2023 #41