Tel Aviv has stepped up indiscriminate attacks against displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza due to the army’s failure to ‘dismantle’ Hamas

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
    244·
    9 months ago

    No, not really. There’s a lot of whitewashing of US history, especially in textbooks. If you ask the average American they wouldn’t even call anything the US did “genocide.”

    I recommend reading Lies My Teacher Told Me.

    • Alsephina@lemmy.mlEnglish
      221·
      9 months ago

      There’s a lot of whitewashing of US history, especially in textbooks. If you ask the average American they wouldn’t even call anything the US did “genocide.”

      That’s what I mean. The US is built on genocide and colonization just like “israel”, but they try to not be open about it.

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
        182·
        9 months ago

        Oh no that’s new. Back when the genocide was in a more active phase and there were “Indian Wars” they were very explicit about it.

        But today, you’re right, they just teach a few key atrocities and handwave the other hundred million. I must have misread lol

        I think that’s just the different stages of settler-colonial development.

      • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
        21·
        9 months ago

        Go back far enough and everyone is where they are because their ancestors killed whomever was there first. Not that it justifies anything, but it’s genocides all the way down. Even native Americans wiped out a prior civilization if you go back far enough.