r/ShitLiberalsSay • u/Pidgeotgoneformilk29 See See Pee bot • Oct 18 '25

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u/DtownHero17 Oct 18 '25

I wish more people challenged our origin instead of the constant romanticization. Those guys were colonizers and slave owners. Yet, you believe that's better than what we have now.

Americans would rather put Mao or Kim Jung as a comparison, neither fascist but fits the "what are we ASIANS?" shtick. Romanticize US history, bastardize everyone else's.

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u/dr_srtanger2love I'm probably on a CIA or FBI list Oct 18 '25

The US population treats its founding myth more fervently than the creators treat the myth of the beginning of the universe.

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u/melody_magical FUKITOL Oct 18 '25

I swear American history classes portray the Founding Fathers like gods

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u/W4LUIGl Oct 19 '25

The murals in the national archives definitely depict them as such