Get canceled, buddy.

  • aerides [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    holy jeez I have never seen this before but it is absolutely fantastic

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Progress

    fuck these buffalo, fuck this bear, fuck these indians, let's plow the shit out of this

    how is this not the introduction to every discussion of the dust bowl

    • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I remember seeing this image in a middle school or high school history textbook. My teacher made some shitty comment about how what it represented could be argued as a good or bad thing, rather than being an explicitly bad thing and a genocide

      • VernetheJules [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Yep, that's where I first saw this too. I really don't remember any serious discussions about the implications of this painting either. Manifest Destiny was just something that "happened"

        • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          I have a vivid memory of the first time I realized that one man's Manifest Destiny is another man's Lebensraum. My head pretty much exploded.

          • panopticon [comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            Hitler exploded a lot of heads when he figured that out too (including ultimately his own, lol!)

          • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Me at my five minutes on the open mic:

            Hey, what's the difference between lebensraum and manifest destiny? In one business interests and the state colluded to form a genocidal white supremacist empire to conquer a large swath of productive land to solidify their control of capital and in the other everyone spoke German. jazz hands

    • TheCheeseElement [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      From my experience, it is. Every US history class I've ever taken, even the ones taught by chuds, has talked about American Progress. It's one of the most famous American paintings ever made.