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It's kinda wild that if Malcolm X were alive today, he'd be labelled a red fash tankie for critically supporting Lenin, Castro and Mao. (hexbear.net)

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Smh how can a black American support Mao over the Tibebetan slave owners?

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[-] commiecapybara@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I mean, that's the truth of what happened, obviously, but the curriculum was still pushing the narrative that the Vietnamese people were the aggressors. I should note that this was back in 2001-2004 before the sanctions against Vietnam were lifted.

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I want to say there was a recent-ish (maybe mid-00s) acknoedgement by the U.S. that the original story of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident was a complete fabrication. It basically went:

Original story (that a Vietnamese ship fired on an American one) came out in the 60s and was used as justification for a full U.S. invasion
Over time some suggestions came out that maybe thr story wasn't entirely true, or might have been a misunderstanding, etc.
Small changes get made to the official version of events. The U.S. eventually admits its ship was never fired upon.

Note that if you believed the truth at any point up until the final revelation you would have been called some crazy conspiracy theorist and asked why you hate America.