I had a job in Colorado at a small 20-30 person company, including two devout muslim immigrant men from Afghanistan. OMG, they were freaking the fuck out, thinking people were going to come drag them out of the office and murder them in the parking lot. Everybody had their back and tried to calm them down, but boy, they were so stressed out.

Or he just didn’t pay attention in class when it was taught. A lot of students treat history as irrelevant. It doesn’t help that a lot of public school history teachers are the equivalent of a dad watching World War 2 documentaries. Lots of them basically teach history so they can be a coach instead. Because public schools don’t hire independent coaches, and require all of them to teach something. So the coaches tend to fall into teaching history, because it’s easier than learning to teach calculus or chemistry.

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When I was in schools, American history was Pilgrims, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, The Great Depression, and WWI. Then it was summer. We might have a school assembly in February to talk about MLK.

Homeschooled...

Well, the number of people talking about the 3 planes getting hijacked on another thread makes me think we've forgotten at least a little bit.

Many people are just alien tourists

I dunno, but remember, remember the fifth of November.

Plenty of things in Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_November_in_German_history

Poor Chile! They didnt deserve that one. Cant say the same about to the U.S though.

Wait till you hear about Seven Twelve.

It's named after their emergency number. Lots of people dialed 911 that day.

I’ve just barely survived a date format discussion and this is the first comment I read after. God dammit

Because it happened on 2001-09-11 in the One True Date Format.

The country sobered up and decided to write dates correctly, only to relapse the very next day.

Bhopal disaster

I only learned of this one from Behind the Bastards

Edit to add

On 3 December 1984, over 500,000 people in the vicinity of the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate, in what is considered the world's worst industrial disaster.[3] A government affidavit in 2006 stated that the leak caused approximately 558,125 injuries, including 38,478 temporary partial injuries and 3,900 severely and permanently disabling injuries.[4] Estimates vary on the death toll, with the official number of immediate deaths being 2,259.[5] Others estimate that 8,000 died within two weeks of the incident occurring, and another 8,000 or more died from gas-related diseases.[6] In 1989, Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) of the United States paid $470 million (equivalent to $1.03 billion in 2024) to settle litigation stemming from the disaster.[7]

To be fair 9/11 is probably going to be forgotten about way sooner

Naninjing, dresden, tokio bombing, pol pot.... there is no shortage of atrocicites.

So thing about history, too recent history isn't taught. Because the system is made around your parents teaching you what they went through.

The first 3 are American, I could see a foreigner not knowing. My sister is a teacher in Europe and she says none of her students knew about the Holocaust. These are teenagers. I think maybe we might be fucked as a species.

Like lots of muricans forget about minsk and go neanerthal about russia. Happens a lot

What is that and what would even be the point of that

Edit: looked it up.

Many Waldorf schools have faced controversy due to Steiner's connections to racist ideology[7][8][9] and magical thinking.[discuss] Others have faced regulatory audits and closure due to concerns over substandard treatment of children with special educational needs.[10] Critics of Waldorf education point out the mystical nature of anthroposophy and the incorporation of Steiner's esoteric ideas into the curriculum.[11][12] Waldorf schools have also been linked to the outbreak of infectious diseases due to the vaccine hesitancy of many Waldorf parents.[13][14][15]

Actual lol. Magical thinking.

He could be 20 and not american.

Of Jet fuel and steel beams

Definitely not right... But we can make it work