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|    Your Name to moviePig    |
|    Re: America's Historical Illiteracy    |
|    20 Feb 26 11:18:24    |
      From: YourName@YourISP.com              On 2026-02-19 21:45:15 +0000, moviePig said:       > On 2/18/2026 6:54 PM, 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/       >>>> avc1/576x1024/96uBV9UUO7gvIuPn.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.       >       > Lies enshrined by popular media ain't exactly new. (I always figured       > the leaping lemmings were actually pushed, like at a Walmart sale.)              The Disney film crew chased the lemmings off the cliff to get some       "exciting footage" in their "documentary". :-\              There is another silly myth about lemmings: that they "explode" when       highly stressed. The only place leemings explode is the animated       characters in the various "Lemmings" computer games. :-)              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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