Who has't heard about the detainment camps? What about Dresden...we bombed the crap out of it...that was taught...
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Kris Sisk <[email protected]> wrote: > > >sam, > > > >US history classes teach a very biased view of history, its > >triumphalism to the extreme at times. for instance little or no > >mention of the invasions of Canada during the American revolution, the > >War of 1812, and the various Fenian raids. When the War of 1812 is > >mentioned, its mostly New Orleans in 1815 and a few naval battles. > >Nothing about the Niagara or North West Campaigns, or destruction of > >the towns along the Frontier in the middle of winter or the Indian > >massacres. > > > > History classes are pretty biased pretty much everywhere. I've met people > from Germany who had never heard of the holocaust for example. Meanwhile how > many people realize that we had concentration camps here for Japanese > Americans during WW2? Or what American has ever heard of Dresden, Germany? > Honestly someone should have been nailed for war crimes related to Dresden > but you almost never hear about it in America and certainly never in our > history classes. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318440 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
