Coffee Talk V: The Final Battle

[mattola]

 

[dash]

The motherfucker can’t get reinstated to Twitter but he is going to be reinstated as POTUS.

You can’t make this shit up yet there are 75,000,000 idiotic Americans who will believe this.

I'd like to know how many of those people could find Myanmar on a map.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

 

[forty_three]

I'd like to know how many of those people could find Myanmar on a map.

A vast majority of them couldn't find Washington DC on a map.

My biggest worry about a coup attempt is running out of popcorn.

 

[thedddd]

What is even worse how little is taught about it in school.

@forty_three Sorry my comment was exactly as you stated.
Anyway what I was thinking was about, most likely the same documentary or similar one they discussed, if you polled Americans how few even knew this existed and nothing was taught in the schools. And this wasn't a north or south issue it was something you didn't learn about in school at all.

Just like the Japanese internment camps, that was NEVER discussed when learning about FDR or WWII.

 

[thedddd]

A vast majority of them couldn't find Washington DC on a map.

My biggest worry about a coup attempt is running out of popcorn.

I would be more concerned about Bucee's running out of their Pulled Pork Sandwiches and Beaver Nuggets.

 

[dash]

Likewise in Canada, our social studies classes never featured residential schools. We did learn some things about Louis Riel, but other aspects of indigenous history in Canada were not taught.

 

[puckhead]

Likewise in Canada, our social studies classes never featured residential schools. We did learn some things about Louis Riel, but other aspects of indigenous history in Canada were not taught.

which is amazing, as there were resident schools up an running until 1996.
this isn't a generations-ago thing... this is us.

i had never heard of resident schools until within the past 10 years, maybe 5.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

which is amazing, as there were resident schools up an running until 1996.
this isn't a generations-ago thing... this is us.

i had never heard of resident schools until within the past 10 years, maybe 5.

The switch has been flipped now though ... way over the other way in elementary school I’d suggest which is good and bad Indigenous learning seems prevalent now. Not sure why they can’t find a balance.

 

[forty_three]

Likewise in Canada, our social studies classes never featured residential schools. We did learn some things about Louis Riel, but other aspects of indigenous history in Canada were not taught.

It's still kinda surprising that they never even bothered trying to teach Tulsa as a bunch of people getting "uppity". Just completely ignored. For a while, the narrative about Kent State was the National Guard was provoked.

Almost like they knew what they'd done was genocide. But that never stopped them before, see everything taught about Native Americans.

 

[sbb122]

I'd like to know how many of those people could find Myanmar on a map.

It’s a few miles west of Hoboken, right?

 

[jstewismybastardson]

It’s a few miles west of Hoboken, right?

Myanmar is that water outside the cancun hotel zone !

 

[KennyBanyeah]

I'd like to know how many of those people could find Myanmar on a map.

What is that? The discount pharmacy?

 

[mattola]

which is amazing, as there were resident schools up an running until 1996.
this isn't a generations-ago thing... this is us.

i had never heard of resident schools until within the past 10 years, maybe 5.

5 years for my wife and I learning about this. talked about before that? yes. but we never understood what it was and how bad it was.

 

[dash]

It’s a few miles west of Hoboken, right?

Isn't that where Maverick and Goose went for fighter training?

 

[scoutyjones2]

@forty_three Sorry my comment was exactly as you stated.
Anyway what I was thinking was about, most likely the same documentary or similar one they discussed, if you polled Americans how few even knew this existed and nothing was taught in the schools. And this wasn't a north or south issue it was something you didn't learn about in school at all.

Just like the Japanese internment camps, that was NEVER discussed when learning about FDR or WWII.

I never heard of the tulsa stuff...i did learn about internment camps

 

[thedddd]

I never heard of the tulsa stuff...i did learn about internment camps

In history class at what level of school? You had a better school that most that decided to skip that part of WWII. That was never taught for us and even to this day my older kids didn't learn about it through high school. My 16-year-old daughter just learned about it this past year and I wonder why.

The older two only learned about it because when we were at the Little White House in Warm Springs a few years back I told them about it as there was mention of it there.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Likewise in Canada, our social studies classes never featured residential schools. We did learn some things about Louis Riel, but other aspects of indigenous history in Canada were not taught.

They were teaching it when I was in HS (01-05). It was more just a section of assimilation in general but it was definitely material we studied.

They also touched on things like the Oka & Ipperwash crises.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Beaverton too on the nose.

 

[mooger_35]

Likewise in Canada, our social studies classes never featured residential schools. We did learn some things about Louis Riel, but other aspects of indigenous history in Canada were not taught.

My kids (elementary school) have learned about it since grade 1. It's a big part of their curriculum.