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It's extremely disingenuous and intentionally misleading that our introduction of the Native Americans to young children is portrayed as peaceful and kind when the headline of European immigrant relations with Native Americans is genocide. It would be better to say nothing about them than to leave the opposite impression of what actually happened until they're older.
It would be akin to young German Children being taught about Adolf Hitler: Staunch Animal Rights activist until they're older. Sure, I guess he was, but it would be obvious what the goal of leading with that factoid is.
The goal of early social study books highlighting that is to instill "America Yay" ideas in kids heads, a vestige of the whole manifest destiny we did nothing wrong narrative. We are a nation built on foundations of genocide and slavery. That is overwhelming reality. But many, particularly conservative Americans, would prefer that be expunged from our national identity so they can feel better about our history, which is the basis of their war on CRT.
Its fun to reminisce about all the blatant lies we were fed in grade school.
Who remembers that pretty cartoon in their textbooks of the pilgrims and their new friends the Native Americans enjoying a Thanksgiving feast together?
If I won the lottery, no one currently in my life would ever see or hear from me again.
I don't think many people want to feel the need to boo humanity.
Our actions and history just provide precious little to cheer for.
Maybe that would be a good starting point. If we, as a species decided to end homelessness (and I'm sorry this needs to be stated, but with homes, not mass murder) for example, that might start to earn some good will, some pride for humans in humans caring for one another.
Until then, yeah, boos and rotten produce are an appropriate review.
I think you could drastically minimize any impact by doing the time travel in space and merely observing from high orbit, assuming your time machine has no form of exhaust, which if you have a time machine seems like a relatively small engineering challenge by comparison.
You might displace a few atoms in the void, but it's the safest way one could go about it.
I mean, technically displacing the air with that time machine on such a massive time scale is just as likely to result in returning to a civilization of dolphin people as riding a dinosaur would.
I see it as my sacred duty as a peasant to undermine the profit of my workplace wherever safely possible.
When the class war is long lost and one is living under class occupation, guerilla tactics become the only option.
We didn't set these hostile terms, American employers chose to treat their workforces as disposable liabilities rather than valued partners who all stand to prosper (as many once did prior to the Jack Welch/Reaganomics cultural grift), but we can sure as hell game and undermine them.
You'd sooner squeeze blood from a stone than shame from a capitalist.
They're incapable of shame.
I would like to sell my soul in exchange for dominion over the Earth!
"Sorry dude... not with that soul.
Best I can do is assistant manager at the Arby's down the street. I'll even throw in some heroin, you're gonna need it."
Capitalists don't care about making quality products/services.
They care about squeezing more profit out of you as time goes on.