• SippyCup@feddit.nl
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      3 days ago

      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.

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        2 days ago

        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.