<p>Everyone’s guilty at some point in time. In the US, they don’t teach children about us raping and stealing land from native Americans. They don’t talk about how pretty much 45% of the west coast belongs to Mexico and the Mexican-American war of the 1840’s. They conveniently word those events as being “the expansion of the United States”. Grown adults that I talk to hardly ever even know that the United States has lost a war before. They say, in a smug republican overtone, “We ain’t ever lost a war!” and my response is, “What about when the British Canadian colonies defended an attack from us, came to Washington DC, kicked our ass and burned down our first white house?” </p>
<p>That’s right, boys and girls, Canada, who we oft coin as being “America’s hat” is the only country (granted they had the help of Britain) to defeat the United States in a war. Some consider it a stalemate, but in all honesty, the fact that Canada EXISTS as a country means they won. (The war took place because we were trying to occupy and take over Canada.) </p>
<p>There’s a considerable amount of controlled knowledge, but that’s universal. Do you think Christian schools teach their students about genetics or the science of homosexuality? The possibilities of extraterrestrial life forms or dark matter?</p>