• JayleneSlide@lemmy.world
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    • The United States is a righteous, fair, and just country.
    • Success and a comfortable life necessarily followed hard, diligent, smart work
    • Adults, by virtue of having been around longer, necessarily knew more and knew better than I.
    • Socialism bad.
    • All kids get beaten on a daily basis for transgressions such as a B grade on their paper, a speck of food still stuck to the dishes after washing, or for listening to music on the radio that their parents didn’t like.
    • Asafum@feddit.nl
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      The United States is a righteous, fair, and just country.

      This one really fucked me up as I got older. In school they just brainwashed us into believing we were always the good guys and we always got into wars to help save people from oppression… Then you find out we only ever get into wars to stop people from choosing the wrong kind of government that won’t let US businesses exploit their resources or people… We never act out of kindness or solidarity.

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      The United States is a righteous, fair, and just country.

      Every thinking Latin-American knows different.

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        Same with us natives.

        My ancestors should have slaughtered them as they came ashore.