Because white people have never honestly reckoned with our history in this country, and anytime someone tries to do so, we freak out and call it "revisionist" and "divisive." And then half of the states consider legislation to further whitewash their history curricula. https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1355664101826056198
A big symptom of this phenomenon is our use of euphemism and weasel-words to describe our past. If we were honest about US history, here's how we would describe things differently: (1/2)
-not "plantations", but slave labor camps
-not "westward expansion", but ethnic cleansing
-not "territories", but colonies
-not "segregation", but apartheid
-not "race riots", but anti-Black pogroms
-not "traditional values", but authoritarian patriarchy
-& def.*not* exceptional
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