That's just not true. The Haymarket Riot is widely taught in history classes. I don't think there's a single history class that covers the 20th century and fails to mention the Great Depression and the New Deal. They might not spend a lot of time on things like the Bonus Army, but you can't really cover the Great Depression without mentioning rebellions and unrest.

It's true that they like to talk a lot more about the genius of Henry Ford and give him credit for the 5 day work week, and not mention all the labour movements and strikes that led to the 8 hour day and 5 day week. But, it's more a matter of what's emphasized rather than outright censorship.

Besides, the whole founding of the US is framed as a rebellion against authority. They barely even mention that the founding fathers were almost all extremely rich nepo babies. The founding story of the US could be taught as a bunch of rich white men who deserved to lead because of their prowess as capitalists taking power from a distant king who was demanding a bailout due to his financial mismanagement. That would probably even be closer to the truth. But, it's framed as a bunch of plucky men taking power back for the people from an autocrat.

Not true I heard about the Whiskey Rebellion and Shays Rebellion at least once

I graduated high school in the late 90s in white christian suburbia USA. It's definitely unnerving how often I get to go down a rabbit hole about events that happened before I was born but are still new to me.

That's especially true when the "rebellion" is something other than war or occasionally civil rights. Anything related to labor or worker's rights just didn't come up.

But then I had to keep learning about the world from as many sources as possible, and instead of fulfilling my destiny to be an angry unwell rich republican, here I am on Lemmy and spending more time thinking about my family, hobbies, and farm chores than about work. I use Debian btw.

Yeah, they like to play it off as people dying on the job. It’s never framed as people having their heads cracked in by literal FBI agents and mercenaries paid for with tax dollars. It was both. it's always been both.

one thing probably lead to the conditions that enabled the other

I would assume it's not just poorly funded, but that the decision makers have a strong interest in what gets focus.

As I remember it, the reason we didn't have enough time to cover the rest of the book is that we spent a full 6-7 years learning about WWII repeatedly. Like the same fucking curriculum multiple years.

that's a political, not a financial decision

Remember, between giving works a modicum of rights or being interested in capital, the USA government has favored the later heavily to the former.

And they're still around. Still shady af

it was Baldwin-Felts, but at the end of the day pinks are pinks even if their paychecks get written by another private "detective" agency

Capital has been festering division for most of this country’s history. It used racism to keep labor weak.

first on north american soil, not in all history. WWI had its first aerial bombing in 1916 or 1917 and Blair mountain was 1921.

edit: WWI, not WWII. Blair mountain was interwar

The Tulsa Race Massacre was the same year, and according to wiki, occurred months prior.

I'm pretty sure biplanes were used there to drop firebombs on the black folk who dared to create for themselves a successful and thriving community.

Technically, the Epstein class still sends children into the mines. Not in person of course. They had a chain of command back then, and they have it now. Back then, it was all their own management inside their country. Now it's multiple companies between them and the children in the mines. Sadly, these rights have to be fought for in every single country anew. Hard to do while the country is trapped in eternal war though. Congo never had a chance.

The beginning is so sad

i have a red bandana that the Mattewan chapter of the UMWA gave me that says "certified redneck" on it. it is my proudest possession.

and i want to say something about those rednecks up in McDowell county. they gave my friend Alice the same bandana. she was there in her hippy dress with her full beard. and they were happy to see her because she's their friend and they're hers.

also worth knowing, the red bandana is the symbol of the unionist movement in appalachia because of what each color represents:

• red: labor, collective action, and indigenous rights
• white: white laborers
• black: black laborers

our red bandana was selected to represent our anti-racist ethos. it has been our symbol for around 140 years now. and i'll be damned if i let any of my neighbors forget who we are or where we come from.

But with robots

It was literally.

Hello fellow pedant.

It was literally a war against a union busting private military who had support from the US military.

Also, don't be a dick

It was very much a war, belligerent parties included the US military. Bombs were dropped from planes.

what standard do you need to be breached for a war to be literally a war to you. the coal miner i met you got shot in the leg charging a machine gun nest called it "our civil war." he trained with a rifle, got on a train to Mattewan, charged a machine gun nest, got bombed, and had to contend with "riot control gas."

to him, it was a war. and given the scope and scale of what happened on blair mountain, i reckon, i'd say it was a war.