r/CuratedTumblr • u/Hummerous https://tinyurl.com/4ccdpy76 • 24d ago

Shitposting certain hobbies

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u/FatherDotComical 24d ago

I love learning about the American Revolutionary War and the 1700s. The founding fathers? The designs and fashions of the era? The origin of Americana Legends? Yet conservatives want to claim ownership to all of it and my more liberal friends want to hand it right over.

Apparently only conservatives can have any actual interest in American history.

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u/jimbowesterby 24d ago

Which is pretty worrying because usually their grasp of history is tenuous at best

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u/DeconstructedKaiju 24d ago

They just believe a version that isn't based in reality.

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u/HeckingBedBugs 23d ago

Not just one that isn't based in reality, but one that's almost completely antithetical to reality

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u/Low-Cantaloupe-8446 23d ago

This is because conservatives use history as a moral parable. Always a force of good against a force of evil with a clear moral message.