Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "Oh, so THIS is why they HATE America!" video.

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  3. This is modern history... but we don't go over any of it school. Even the Vietnam War, just a summary and a small report on it, we had to have teachers ask the students if it was okay to discuss it, and if there is something raw about it, the teacher could assign other subject to the student. This was 1990's Jr. thru High School. Part of the censorship is a mix of government, but also "sensitive" or rather conspiracy riddled nut job parents... Politicians not wanting to entertain history that's too recent, nor puts a bad light on our own country (unless it was long time ago, and token "we're so sorry" memorials have been put up in their place). Parents, some, and rather a minority but often a vocal minority will squeal about "brainwashing the child" when presented with anything other than the parents' own narratives... often false or just flat out biased narrative. So lot of people don't know about this stuff going through school... through the 70's and present day. Hell, people don't even recall how we got social security, the typical 40 hour work week with time and half over time pay, holiday pay, sick pay, unions... the term redneck coming form robber barons and big shootouts that the robber barons hired men (thugs) would kill the striking workers. These coal workers donned red scarfs in their protests hence the term redneck. But now it's reduced to some wrongfully term for someone who likes the outdoors. Wasn't really legal in the USA to form unions in many enterprises until 1935 which finally made it legal for ALL workers to collectively bargain.
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