Said it was the biggest uprising since the Civil War. Yet we are never taught about it, why?
The Battle of Blair Mountain
Dominic Roberts
Michael Long
Because most US history after muh Reconstruction and before say, the Great Depression is largely glossed over in popular culture. Great Gatsby and maybe a tidbit of Spanish-American War/WWI aside.
Most history before Civil Rights focused more on Great men and big WASPy drum beats of history than the nuances of labor relations. After Civil Rights, race, muh Ellis Island, race. And WWII.
If you asked an average adult who was President between Lincoln and TR, you'd get a blank stare. Similar to questions on say, Free Silver and Bossism.
>History Major
Noah Brooks
They never really get into the Great Depression. Not really. They always gloss over the how it happened.
Ian Scott
My education between reconstruction and civil rights movement consisted of...
> durr worker oppression in gilded age
> durr automobile
> durr Wright Brothers
> durr Kaiser bad, we beat the hun
> spend inordinate amount of time on women's suffrage because femoids need to stroke their ego
> durr depression, HOOVER BAD
> copious FDR cockmongling
> during WWII, HITLER AND LE NAZIS BAD!
> during SOVIETS BAD
> copious MLK dicksucking and pandering to the two negroes in the class
> refuses to talk about Malcolm X
And I went to a Catholic primary and middle school. Shit was pozzed as fuck during the 90's and early 2000's. Nothing has changed except now they added the alphabet people into the ego stroking equation.
Hell I remember smacking the absolute dog shit out of some 4 grader because he said some racial shit about whites before a church service. Thankfully I did it in the bathroom. No witnesses.
Brody Sullivan
Fuck FDR.
Xavier Long
Again, your average History education is simply drum beats. Highly simplified so people can maybe identify the people on banknotes.
>Pre-Civil Rights
>Columbus
>Pilgrims
>Bit of Colonial America, less hate on explorers
>Revolution/Constitution
>State Tensions/States Rights
>Civil War
>Mention of Reconstruction, briefly
>Railroads and Industry, briefly
>Spanish American War/WWI
>Roaring Twenties
>Depression Bad
>WWII and victory
>Post Civil Rights
>Indians
>Columbus bad. Little mention of other Euros
>Slavery
>Revolution
>Slavery, bad South
>Civil War
>Muh Reconstruction
>Indians genocided and shit
>Spanish-American War/WWI/Industrial America in one chapter
>Twenties and Prohibition. Maybe
>WWII and Muh Shoah
>Civil Rights
>Sixties
>Reagan
Again, everything is glossed over. And what little space is available is given to affirmative action tidbits than anything nuanced about the eras in question.
Matthew Kelly
Hey thats almost my name
Asher Davis
Not really taught to think about it. Just memorize it for that week's test and then forget it all the next week.
Sebastian Taylor
Well duh, but that was the fucking curriculum. And don't dare point out that FDR's policies actually did little in the way of alleviating the effects of the depression, in fact made much of it worse, and only the outbreak of the second world war and full industrial mobilization saved us.
David Moore
The same reason why southern whites are the most patriotic Israel donating flag kissing boot licking people in the country, the small and independent lifestyle of the people of Appalachia and by extension the south lead to very independent people, people who don’t like being told what to do by faggots in cities 500 miles away. So instead of fighting them you just convince them that their way of life is under attack and their independent and rebellious nature is satisfied because they think they’re fighting the establishment when they fly a thin blue line flag or whatever.
This is why they got my people hooked on opiates and food stamps so they were too high and poor to worry about why DC niggers can dictate how they live their lives
Carter Martinez
Because they don't want the goyim to get any ideas
Parker Nelson
Labor wars are fascinating, but useless to teach in a pozzed school system
Caleb Wood
Yup. Gotta focus more on oppression of the American nigger and women. Gotta make straight white males the villain at every point they can for their narrative to not fall apart.
Adam Green
My bachelor's is in history and it was always my best subject in grade school and high school. I dont think I even heard the term "gilded age" until I was in college.
Oliver Jackson
Yea
Jaxon Flores
Because the government using Martin Bombers, private military contractors and machine guns against armed striking miners might just give the disenfranchised hope.
Austin Cook
Was Grover Cleveland actually based or was that a rumor?
Carson Diaz
Bingo.
I mean, if you get Zinn it'll be mentioned. But Zinn is trash who has no sense of nuance on the issue.
The brutality of labor strikes and the fact that riot control did not exist back then is glossed over constantly in favor of Upton Sinclair tier propaganda. Nor are the nuances of the labor movement itself ever explained, as well as elements of it distasteful to modern leftist thought (Anti-Immigrant sentiment, etc).
The left always blames the capitalists for destroying labor when it was they who turned their noses up on the Archie Bunker types.
Aaron Stewart
This
Jason Clark
In a libertarian sense yes. In a populist/fascist sense? No. William Jennings Bryan is up that alley. 19th Century Trump with weird lefty-but-not-lefty ideals.
I just recently graduated. Too much emphasis was put on race and less on economics. And my professors were lolberts.
Colton Roberts
West Virginia Coal Wars.
Dominic Smith
Neat. It's unfortunate the panic of 1893 screwed him and isn't talked about as much. That shit is probably more relevant than much of what is discussed here idk how we never have a thread on it.
Luis Lee
Be the change you want to see user. I too am quite tired of the hourly 'haha cope whyte boi' threads and all that shit.
Hudson Stewart
People have a hard time understanding the 19th Century in general. In an economic sense, a cultural sense, and a social sense.
The logic used in political discourse and understanding of history is rooted in a kind of view that's shaped by Postwar Academics more than anything else. Hence the racial fixations.
Benjamin Harris
>The logic used in political discourse and understanding of history is rooted in a kind of view that's shaped by Postwar Academics more than anything else. Hence the racial fixations.
It's ironic you say this. I kinda remember Napoleon III wanted to form a pan-Latin empire that spanned that globe and reunited the Roman empire. Coincidentally that clashed with the formation of Germany that somehow didn't boil over with pan-slavic tendencies in the Balkans and Russia.
Idk how people aren't fascinated with the 19th century of which is possibly the most interesting century since the bronze age collapse. So many things changed and there was so many possibilities in such a short span of time. Like fuck the 1860s alone is loaded with an enormous amount of conclusive wars ranging from the Taiping rebellion, Italian and German unification wars, the US and Mexican civil war, the Sepoy rebellion, the Alabama claims almost turning on war of 1812 part 2, and the slight chance of it all boiling into an early WW3 did to Tensions between the US, Prussia, Italy, and Russia on one side and UK, France, CSA, and maybe Austria on the other like holy fuck.
And that's not even mentioning advances in industry, and philosophy as a whole. And being able still fuck off to the ancap frontier if you so choose like it's no big deal.