at a BBQ that wasn't about the war (cause I knew how they felt) but the fact that they felt 100% in their bones America was a force of good in the world, and these weren't necessarily Fox News republicans.

We aren't in state sponsored denial as the Japanese's and their shenanigans in WWII:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-publisher-rejects-japan-over-textbook-on-comfort-women-1421299438

But it's interesting when in textbooks slavery is less about black folks but how great Lincoln was for abolishing it. Or Jim Crow was more about how great MLK was, lol. Or the Native massacres were always about the military skirmish angle as opposed to us committing genocide.

Which leads everyone to having an understanding of American history, even the bad parts, but a FUCKED up way of looking at it

>When we do something it was done for just reasons. Not like
>those folks over there