It’s probably different depending on where you were raised, but I was raised in a “liberal” area and they basically just didn’t cover anything that made the US look bad at all. So that meant very little cold war history. I think there was like 1 chapter on Vietnam that was basically just oh we pulled a whoopsy.
It’s taught in a manner that makes it seem like the student is now immune to a bad thing done in the past and that now everyone knows the truth, not as an ongoing process.
Is the Red Scare not taught in schools or something anymore?
Maybe left leaning or adjacent subs are a bit more aware of Red Scares and aren’t having it? It’s something I see rarely mentioned.
It’s probably different depending on where you were raised, but I was raised in a “liberal” area and they basically just didn’t cover anything that made the US look bad at all. So that meant very little cold war history. I think there was like 1 chapter on Vietnam that was basically just oh we pulled a whoopsy.
It’s taught in a manner that makes it seem like the student is now immune to a bad thing done in the past and that now everyone knows the truth, not as an ongoing process.
Just wanted to say thank you for giving such a succinct way to describe how badly we teach that.
No problem!