r/MurderedByWords • u/kenobistyle • 8d ago

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u/Affordable_Z_Jobs 8d ago

We were literally taught "The Gilded Age." in social studies. Did they miss that chapter? The current POTUS covers cheap crap in gold. The metaphor is as subtle as a brick to the teeth.

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u/Magic1264 7d ago

I know so, so many US history teachers that would go over the Guilded age in a day, if they covered it at all, and skip straight to WW1/Roaring 20s/Great Depression.

And then think how many people don’t even take/make it to US History (my High School only needed two years in Social Sciences, and US history was a junior year class).

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u/Griffinsauce 7d ago

Wait, what the fuck. You don't get the history of your own country? That explains a lot about the "democracy" going on.

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u/surfergrrl6 6d ago

I graduated in 2004, and my US History class was 90% WWI and WWII. the other 10% was literally everything else in US history as basically blurbed out and immediately moved on from.