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

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    22 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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      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.

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        13 hours ago

        Reading this, I get the impression you’re taking the ides that people are products of their environment¹ and the concept of personal responsibility is mostly a tool to deflect from systemic horrors¹, and applying them very selectively² based on who you think of as evil².

        Which is certainly a choice.

        ¹yep

        ²oof