Star Wars fans when they realize the movies were based on the Vietnam war, and the empire was America.

  • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 hours ago

    Because white supremacists who we let make all our economic decisions didn’t put150 years of nonstop effort into valorizing them.

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      11 hours ago

      That does not change my point. Despite- or perhaps because of- their efforts, the average American couldn’t even tell you accurately when the Civil War happened from memory. It’s once again not strictly their fault they don’t know about those movements.