• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Do we? Hasn’t there been lots of books written by Europeans who lived thru the 1930s documented step by step how their nation fell.

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      1 year ago

      Books that the majority of Americans are too apathetic, ideologically poisoned or just busy to read, much less take concrete actions as a result.

      I wish it wasn’t so, but that’s the current reality. Telling your average Faux News viewer to read and honestly reflect on objective history books is a fool’s errand.

      We have to fight intolerance not with the information of the tolerant, but with vilification, exclusion and other severe consequences for their misanthropic words and actions.

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      I’m sure there are. I couldn’t name a single one, and I am quite certain that there are zero US secondary schools that teach any of them. When I was in high school, we didn’t even get into WW1 in history class, and there’s been 35 years more history since then. We didn’t even get to the rise of fascism in the 20th century; no wonder it’s on the rise again.