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[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Actually, this is a really really amazing idea.

Set country as an option, and private/public school (different lies...)

It'd be great to let us all face our biases ^_^

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hard to call it a bias when that was the accepted convention for a large portion of the population.

Can’t really blame someone for being taught something than never having it come up again.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah like the food pyramid. That's not my bias, that was the government fucking up

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That was big business fucking with the government on purpose.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yup. Sucks ass how many of us they conned

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Biases? Ignorances, is that the word you meant?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

A little of column A and a little of column B.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

different lies

A Japanese person asks, "What did my school get wrong about Japan's involvement in World War II?"

is given an exhaustive history of the World War II Pacific Theater