• HauntedBySpectacle [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Is this supposed to be a surprising secret? I was taught this in American public schools as the core reason.

    The real wake-up call isn’t learning about the historical importance of expansion itself, but assigning a different moral value to it. It’s realizing Manifest Destiny is just Lebensraum that won, that there’s nothing morally justified about it.