We Don't Need No Education

[Emu]

Yes. They actually teach us this. I remember in school that we went over the American Revolution and Civil War as if they were the only fucking wars that ever happened EVERY SINGLE FUCKING YEAR.

I thought the Cold War was a war in the Arctic all my life until about 9th grade, and even then, I didn't learn otherwise from school. I didn't even know we ever had a war with Korea, and we spent a whole two weeks on Vietnam my junior year. We did go over the World Wars in some depth in 7th grade, but they really downplayed the casualties in WWI and almost utterly ignored Japan's involvment in WWII, even from an American perspective. Fuck, as far as I knew, Japan only attacked us because they were pissed at us for being so great. It seems like we went over D Day seven times an hour and talked about how great it was that America decided to get into the war and rescue those poor Jews, as if that were the sole reason. But if we weren't talking about a war it was always memorizing the state capitols or what states raise what crops and where the Mississippi ran.