• InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Went to school in the south, I didn’t know it happened at all until the HBO show watchmen, and at first I thought it was a made up event.

    It’s not surprising it happened, it’s just denied or downplayed anyway. The south liked to pretend everything that happened after the civil war was them being victimized by the evil northern carpetbaggers and maybe some confused people who might have gone too far.

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      1 year ago

      Same experience, I grew up in Arkansas so a neighbor to Oklahoma. You’d think something of that historical significance would be covered thoroughly. But nope. I was in third or fourth grade with Timothy McVeigh bombed a municipal building in Oklahoma and they wheeled in a TV on one of those media carts for us to watch that, though.