Comment on History is written by the victors
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 2 months agoMy schools and textbooks weren’t shy about the acts of evil that were committed, but somehow found ways to speak highly of those involved in said acts
Comment on History is written by the victors
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 2 months agoMy schools and textbooks weren’t shy about the acts of evil that were committed, but somehow found ways to speak highly of those involved in said acts
aidan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Because people can do good things and horrible things in their life. Essentially no one is universally evil in everything they do.
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 2 months ago
I agree with that 100%! I still think it’s weird that we national holidays to celebrate slave owners, regardless of what good things they did that have no relation to their owning of slaves.
aidan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
To ignore slave owner and slavery apologists we’d have to get rid of all abrahamic religious holidays leaving… Juneteenth, Labor Day, MLK Day, and Veterans Day. Those are fine holidays- but not exactly the most festive/family fun.
I think the British(under Churchill) made starvation of hundreds of thousands of colonial subjects was horrible, those same people can still be celebrated for fighting Hitler though.