From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Your Name   wrote:   
   >On 2026-02-18 22:10:07 +0000, moviePig said:   
   >> On 2/18/2026 1:55 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2024059899617976320/vid/a   
   c1/576x1024/96uBV9UUO7gvIuPn.mp4   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> America’s historical literacy is dismal.   
   >>>   
   >>> CLAIM: "Millions of women were sexually assaulted and genocided at the   
   Salem   
   >>> Witch Trials"-- when the colonial population was only ~210,000.   
   >>>   
   >>> FACT: Only 19 people were executed during the Witch Trials (including 5   
   men).   
   >>> Not gender-based. No sexual assault.   
   >>>   
   >>> The 'progressive' neon-haired nose-ring crowd will not only believe   
   anything,   
   >>> they'll get violent in response to their fantasies.   
   >>   
   >> I'd think you'd be hard pressed to find a self-avowed 'progressive'   
   >> who'd support anything in this video (...except the background music).   
   >   
   >Part of the blame for Americans' "historical inaccuracies" can go to   
   >Hollyweird. Just look at the World War I and II movies they make where   
   >'America saves the day' even when Americans weren't actually in the   
   >events portrayed (other than perhaps a few voluteers). The Disney   
   >enforced fallacy of lemmings throwing themselves off cliffs is another   
   >example.   
      
   I have no idea what Your Name is talking about. While I am not familiar   
   wth epid WWI movies from the silent era, if any, in the sound era. it   
   would have been an unusual topic. There's Sergeant York and I'm hard   
   pressed to think of another. I guess For Whom the Bell Tolls counts.   
      
   Kirk Douglas starred in Paths of Glory (1957), but that was about epic   
   failure of the French general staff and in no way glorified war nor had   
   anything to do with Americans.   
      
   Nor can I think of a WWII movie falsely taking credit for a battle   
   Americans did not participate in.   
      
   False historical statements about witch trials cannot be blamed on   
   Hollywood either. Well, there were comedies about witches but no one   
   took that as history.   
      
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