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   Beardy Star Stuff (dennyhenke@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 21:39:14 JST Beardy Star Stuff

   We in the US have forgotten so much about our own history. It’s been sterilized with the dangerous bits removed.

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 21:39:12 JST Warner Crocker

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     @dennyhenke It’s not so much that we’ve forgotten it, we have chosen to shuntthe ugly bits aside.

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 02:46:06 JST Warner Crocker

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     @dennyhenke That’s a good frame, contemporary as it is. (defining contemporary in the last 2500 years or so). The power and society dynamics that allowed that frame to evolve existed long before.

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     Beardy Star Stuff (dennyhenke@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 02:46:07 JST Beardy Star Stuff

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     • Warner Crocker

     @WarnerCrocker I've always thought of it as having been theft in the culture-making process. From public education to capitalist media, the whole of worker struggles to build unions was and continues to be deliberately filtered out. Capitalism and the state don't want and won't tolerate working class solidarity, organizing and the direct action that comes as a result. We're taught a partial history of the wealthy class that, we're told, deserve their wealth and privilege.