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PugJesus @lemmy.world

2w ago

As an American... the Brits ain't wrong here tbf

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Here's what we were taught about the US REVOLUTION!!!11! 🎉🎉🎉 in history classes in school in the UK :
- Damn, we don't even get a mention like "When the STROPPY, UNGRATEFUL COLONIALS got too unruly, we decided it wasn't worth the effort to keep them"
  
  the closest one is "We stole the black people from Africa and sold them to brazil , carribean and this weird thingy next to the carribean."
  Oh, you do get a shoutout during the WW1/WW2 sections, but not that much.
  
  The US isn't as important to people as Americans like to think it is.
- Kids in the UK aren't taught about most of the awful things their country did. Just like most places. Gotta go to university for that knowledge. Want the rabble to be loyal.
  
  We were shown the below map and specifically told that they took africans as slaves and got sugar etc in exchange.
  
  But you are right that there's a shitload more to be taught that isn't shown in schools
- That makes sense. To us it's the foundational story of our country. To you it's one of many losses of imperial holdings. And you were going through a thing with a mentally unwell king at the time.

Aren't these both missing the large French army and navy which actually won it?
runs away giggling and hides
- "C'mon France, start a little trouble with Britain, it'll be funny, we promise" - American Revolutionaries
  
  No European power has ever faced internal stress funding wars in the Americas, come on do it

Both are 100% correct.

The brits were so upset that perfectly good tea was wasted they passed the Coercive Acts.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_Acts
Close the port of Boston, collective punishment for the whole city.
Take away self-governance for Boston, replacing elected positions with Crown appointees and limiting town meetings in Boston to 1 per year.
Any government officials who commit crimes are tried outside the Colonies. Dubbed "the murder act" as even the soldiers responsible for the Boston Massacre received a fair trial in the Colonies.
Quartering Act
Expanding Quebec into Ohio, which was actually pretty rad, I wish Canada kept Ohio

Colonists: constantly pissing off native Americans, illegally taking land protected for the native Americans by the Crown, causing endless war which the British have to pay to send soldiers to fight
Brits: hey could you guys help pay for this, also stay out of these places so that the Native Americans will stop getting pissed off at you stealing their land and killing them
Colonists: THE INTOLERABLE ACTS! FOUL MURDER! TYRANT KING GEORGE!

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