I’m starting to think this explains Charlie Kirk better than any addiction he has to PragerU.
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In our high school textbooks 15 years ago, history ended just after WWII
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I have been on this soapbox for YEARS. HS history classes barely brush WWII if they're lucky (bc teachers have to teach to the standardized tests) & I have students unsure of when the Vietnam War even WAS & fully unaware of the Korean War at all. Post-WWII is uncharted territory.
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I learned about the Korean war while I was in highschool, but not a word of it at school. It was only because I watched reruns of M*A*S*H with my mom every night that I had any awareness of it at all.
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In ten years there is going to be major WWII revisionism and I honestly don’t know if I want to be alive at that point.
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I was born in 89, and enough of us had dads, uncles, teachers, etc., who had served in Vietnam, or were close to someone who had, that even as kids we just sort of knew in broad strokes it was a mess. But I don't think that transmission is going much beyond one generation.
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For instance, when I went to HS we first officially learned about Vietnam in 9th grade English. While we didn't necessarily know about the politics, etc., it was still recent enough that we all came into it with a point of reference. Not sure you'd have that today.
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I remember my H.S. class went mostly like, 'F*** YEAH! We won WWII. Something happened in Vietnam. F*** YEAH! We won in Desert Storm."
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So when I got to college I took a class that was about just the Vietnam war. Began with the French colonialism and Japanese invasion all the way through to the fall of South Vietnam.
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