What Really Happened In The Past?
It is a broad, but fascinating topic for our round table this time. In this hectic time of change, with major new conspiracies regularly being unearthed, we should be reminded of, and appreciate, those who tried to preserve an accurate telling of past events in the face of cover-ups, white-washes, propaganda and blatant ignorance.
Many things in history did not happen as we are told in state education and main stream sources. What example do you have? Which topic do you find most intriguing?
Thanks to everyone who made a suggestion and voted and to u/Gottmituns for the winning suggestion.
It is always amusing that when you speak to a leftist about US history, and bring up wars, Vietnam was about colonialism, The Gulf Wars were about oil, WW1 was about expansionism, etc... EXCEPT THE CIVIL WAR!!!
No, that war was not about economic power balances, expansion of centralized Federal power over the states or ANYTHING like that... it was ONLY about freeing the slaves and anyone who says different is a racist.
Just something that brings a chuckle.