It’s going to be Germany 1933-1945 all over again, except the leader is considered even more of a clown than the first time.
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Gork@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Students learning about the Trump era gonna think we dumb as fuck
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 months ago
Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Yeah, the way the history books painted Hitler was like he was a supervillain with the power of convincing people to do what he wants. Now I know that’s probably not true and that the Germans were probably just dumb as fuck pieces of shit that would’ve hammered their own faces if they were told to.
Signtist@bookwyr.me 2 months ago
There were already plenty of examples to show that making people viscerally hate an arbitrary group of people is incredibly easy. The Stanford prison experiment is so well-known because it perfectly outlines our own innate desire to fit in, even when it means becoming evil, despite how much we want to convince ourselves that we’re above it.
cdf12345@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Unless the republicans are able to control all the books and curriculum in schools
nieceandtows@programming.dev 2 months ago
Depends on who writes the history books
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If history is taught correctly, they will know that Americans of today are propagandized to hell by the capitalist oligarchs who are fighting tooth and nail to maintain the hierarchy. That the coercive structure of the capitalist system left people alienated and disenfranchised and largely unable to overcome the sea of misinformation designed to isolate and divide communities.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Know we are dumb as fuck, you mean
Montagge@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
We are dumb as fuck
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This helped me understand the lead up to WWII so much better.
BlindPenguin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Was it really necessary to do a practical example?
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
About 1/3 of us are dumb as fuck
Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
⅔ are dumber as fuck