When I was in the third grade, I had a teacher tell me it was okay we pushed the natives off the land because we made more efficient use of it, and could therefore carry a greater population.

In the previous grade the teacher passed around a worksheet, and we had to choose which jobs were most suited to what gender.

Oh what a glorious whitebread bublefuck town I grew up in!

[–] Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What the hell? Didn't that teacher got fired or anything?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Fuck no. Teachers are in such short supply that they aren't looking for reasons to fire them, just pay them less.

Besides, every state creates their own curriculum. It's possible that's the state's official take on the Native American Genocide. After all, for over 150 years, southern schools have been teaching that the Civil War wasn't about slavery, it was about the states rights to decide their own fates, without interference from the aggressive north. They teach this despite the evidence of their own state constitutions of the era, which all mention the protection of slavery right at the beginning, as well as the Confederate "Declaration of Independence," which puts the blame squarely on Slavery. They've spent 150 years OFFICIALLY teaching an alternative lie.

So that Native America explanation might well be an official government position in your state.

[–] johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My favorite thing to point to when someone says the civil war was about states rights is to point out the fugitive slave act. They didn't want the federal government to get involved in slavery unless it was in their favor .

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

"Sure it was about State's Rights. The States Rights to own slaves."

That's the truth, and it's literally in their State Constitutions. If someone is spewing that nonsense, Google it, and read it to them, because they probably can't read.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Lol that teacher was pretty much par for the course as far as rural 90's education goes.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Most likely that teacher is the wife of the pastor or sister of the mayor or some shit and thus invulnerable

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