alphanerd4@lemmy.worldM to US Authoritarianism@lemmy.world · 2 months agoAmerican Exceptionalism is White Supremacy, and it’s not Optional to Succeed Here.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1559arrow-down125
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minus-squareDarkCloud@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down3·edit-22 months agoThe pledge in schools is relatively new, I think it was passed under reagan or something. Your grandparents weren’t doing it.
minus-squareFlocklesscrow@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·2 months agoThat’s not relatively new; it’s about 20% of our entire existence, with multipliers for technology gains. This country is young, and we have been heavily propagandized for decades.
minus-squarebunkyprewster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 months agoThey made me do it back in the 1960s. I remember learning they added “under God” during the McCarthy red scare days
The pledge in schools is relatively new, I think it was passed under reagan or something. Your grandparents weren’t doing it.
That’s not relatively new; it’s about 20% of our entire existence, with multipliers for technology gains.
This country is young, and we have been heavily propagandized for decades.
They made me do it back in the 1960s. I remember learning they added “under God” during the McCarthy red scare days