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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This always gets me. We're told land of freedom and opportunity and all that. It was literally founded on slavery. And women couldn't vote.

Beau of the fifth column says it so well: you're taught American mythology, not American history.