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Originally Posted by throttlemeister
Probably not, but you too will have to acknowledge that the historic knowledge of the average american is not exactly top of the list. Not saying here it is, but still. I browse a lot of international forums and sites, and I don't know if you ever noticed, but whenever someone presents a blatantly false representation of history as fact, you can bet your @$$ it is an American. Maybe I notice more, since like you I love history and always have so I probably am aware a little more than average.
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I would agree with you regarding the ones who get on forums like this one and spout off like said individual regarding the Holocaust, lacking any knowledge of the facts of history. On that issue I just considered the source and I tend to ignore his outburst as I try on some some others here as well because it just seems to be a slippery slope getting into any political/religion discussions. Easier to put these folks on a mental block, although they have more to contribute at times mechanically than I probably ever will.
I don't look to get my history lessons here any more than I look to get the truth on the news from fox or rush/beck etc.... We have this whole distortion of the far right/left over here who will say anything or repeat anything they have heard to validate their point. They become a shrill, loud, annoyingly sound trying to drown out any type of reason or discussion.
I would rather have these types of discussion in person face to face where people remain civil and don't hide behind keyboards and funny screen names. Our local newspaper has moved to facebook, at least on those discussions people are not as anonymous, but I still run into racist and fact changers.
I can not speak to your point of U.S. citizens versus the rest of the world as I frequent English speaking sites, except to say I do read the generalizations as if we are all the same and a loss of memory for the Europeans past history of colonization which led to many of the the issues we face today.