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1. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 03:55:53 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

   I keep having to point this thing out to old boomer guys, where they think we’ve lived in anything close to their world and got the same read on history. I’ve heard them talk about how “Well nobody really knows about the Tuskegee airmen, they never got credit” and “yeah nobody appreciates Amelia Earhart….” and they never wrap their heads around the fact that those entities are ALL my generation learned about. Nobody learned about Gabby Gabreski or Carlos Hathcock, we learned ONLY about the women and browns throughout every phase of american history.

   Civil war lessons in high school entirely omitted anything about the fighting men except for some negro legion that managed to fight a small fraction of the war. Probably just so we could watch that shitty movie in class with tiger woods (or a sufficiently similar black)

   But having old guys expecting me to have been taught the same things they were in 1965 is hilarious

   • mmmfeet (mmmfeet@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 04:05:20 JST mmmfeet

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot The fact that the older generations of Whites make a point to prioritize the contributions of wamen and minorities over those of White men says everything, tbh.
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