Why go with the inferior product?
John Brown: This is the original Canadian design of the FN FAL. Weep at perfection.
Me: “John Brown? May I introduce Nat Turner. Mister Turner? I’d like you to meet John Brown.”
Should be required reading:
https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/nat-turner_9780810972278/
Did you nerds know you wanted to read a John Brown Isekai story?
Well you do, that’s just a fact, here it is:
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/57505/his-soul-is-marching-on-to-another-world-or-the
For those who, like me, don’t know who John Brown is:
Fun fact, John Brown had chronic back pain from carrying around the weight of his massive balls.
Actual fact: Americans don’t learn about John Brown because John Brown’s existence highlights a lot of ugly truths about American history, the American people at the time, and how corrupted the core of the American experiment really is.
Actual fact: many Americans do learn about John brown in school, some of us even learned about Nat Turner. It’s downright common to learn about the Bloody Kansas affair as it was a major inciting incident of our civil war.
I wouldn’t be surprised though if I only learned so much about this because I grew up in a northern state that was one of the primary hotbeds of militant abolitionism (Ohio). We were home to Brown, Grant, and Sherman. We also learned that the fugitive slave act was an act of outright southern aggression on our right to free our fellow humans from their barbarous cruelty. Unfortunately ths state’s filled with dipshits flying the slavers’ rag these days talking about a heritage that certainly wasn’t ours.
I went to public school in Florida, and can tell you that neither of those names were ever brought to discussion. I only learned about John Brown from YouTube in my later twenties.
I went to public school in Florida and John Brown definitely came up in my history class. But that’s probably teacher and/or school district dependent, a friend of mine grew up in Ocoee and did not learn about the Ocoee massacre in school.
I was actually in a fairly liberal area in northern Palm Beach. It definitely is district dependant but I would assume mine would be a district to at least mention it.
Americans don’t learn about John Brown
Horseshit.
I learned about him in public school 40 years ago, and so have both my kids more recently. My 8th grade class visited Harper’s Ferry.
edit: It would be accurate enough if you qualified it saying “some Americans dont learn about Brown.” Trying to make it a sweeping generalization is horseshit, presumably aimed at being inflammatory.
I would go back in time and show him how to teabag his enemies
Myself, a strategist: Mr. Toussaint Louverture, allow me to introduce you to the principles of agroforestry.
Harpers Ferry, WV is one of the most important National Parks in the entire country because of the history it contains. Highly recommend every American make the trek at some point in their lives.
I know where you live
Truly, one of the good ones. And his soul goes marching on!
There was a book by Harry Turtledove called “The Guns of the South” which was about time-traveling white nationalists who go back in time and arm the Confederacy with AK-47’s in an attempt to get the South to win the Civil War, it’s actually a really good read, as far as Turtledove books go, it doesn’t get lost in the weeds too much.
