Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[SnapdragonQ]

I'm into movies like Braveheart or Minions I love those yellow cuties.

Minion fan in the hoouuuse!!

(like literally...it's kiddo's fav)

 

[ShrekDawg]

If he discovered it then how were the Indians already there love how we try to rewrite history, but it never adds up lol

Right!? Plus not only that but the Spanish and French and whoever were here first. Maybe even the Vikings haha definitely not Columbus

Love how they have pictures of the pilgrims eating with the Indians that part always made me laugh. That never happened

Same. with the giant turkey lmao they probably didn’t even have that.

And the women and children didn't eat with them, either ... the feast was unplanned, not by invitation ... and the natives brought most of the food! Still, it WAS a Thanksgiving, so I guess history got at least THAT part of it right!

Well, I think it still was planned, according to that article and some stuff I’ve seen, but it was more diplomatic/a business type thing rather than a social gathering and they didn’t even eat together. They didn’t speak the same language and had different meal customs so they would have most likely kept to themselves except the leaders. They didn’t sit at some big table with a huge feast and be best friends lol and plus after all the leaders died, they were no longer friends.

The Native and Indigenous people of nearly every place "white man" has set foot upon have suffered greatly, and still do.

Yeah, it’s really sad. we killed a bunch of them to diseases too besides just the mistreatment.

 

[FortCluck]

Minion fan in the hoouuuse!!

(like literally...it's kiddo's fav)

I'm 33 and the biggest minion freak I even call my puppy a purple Minion because she acts like one.

My kids got me addicted to them

 

[ShrekDawg]

Yeah We are always trying to rewrite history to make the United States look better... I don't know who we are trying to think we are fooling.

A lot of other countries do the same thing and never teach what really happened

It’s always written by the winners. It’s sad. There’s actually a good book that talks about all that stuff, the actual people and their perspectives and stuff instead of just writing it from the winners view, but I’d have to find it. I’ve been meaning to read it.

 

[MROO]

Ah okay yeah that makes sense. We were horrible to them. Didn’t know about all the innocent people killed though. But I do know Columbus was horrible and also didn’t even actually discover America yet they still said he did ha

Thankfully we learned about the Native Americans and holocaust and everything (although I think the holocaust might have been cause I took an elective on it? But maybe we really learned it too, idk) but never remember learning about those woman. Then again I don’t remember learning much about space in general but still. When we did it was always those men that walked the moon.

Oh wow didn’t realize that but makes sense aha

I did find this at least which was interesting. They always act like we were one big happy family/best friends and always talk about that dang dinner and them putting the fish under the corn and all this rainbow and puppy type stuff haha

https://www.patriotledger.com/article/20101125/NEWS/311259763

Also I went to the pilgrim museum and they had some treaty or deed or something where we were like trying to buy a bunch of their land or something and totally screwed then over. At least they put that on display and didn’t hide it.

We did also at least learn about the Trail of Tears and the French & Indian War and a few things like that so some of the bad stuff but that’s really it so not much. And of course they still acted like in the Pilgrims time everything was perfect and dandy.

Read, "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee."
Did you know that Custer's Last Stand was not waged against a huge force of warring natives, as History likes to imply? In reality, The Native Americans ... of many different Nations (including many that normally fought between each other) had gathered together at Wounded Knee - a spiritual place of great significance - to dance the "Ghost Dance" - a religious appeal to their Powers-That-Be to remove the menace of the white man from their lands and lives, forever. It backfired - and ended up so enraging the European-based interlopers that the wars raged hotter and with more venom and vengeance than ever before.

 

[FortCluck]

It’s always written by the winners. It’s sad. There’s actually a good book that talks about all that stuff, the actual people and their perspectives and stuff instead of just writing it from the winners view, but I’d have to find it. I’ve been meaning to read it.

I want to read a book about the Jewish people who survived the Holocaust. Those people amaze me because they literally went through it all then told their story.

 

[MROO]

That's harder for me to answer because I love big sweeping epics like Dances With Wolves or Braveheart.
Australia (with Hugh Lackman and Nicole Kidman) is actually very good and has historical content like DWW or BH.

Oooooh - I LOVE Dances With Wolves ... and I think I even still have it!

 

[MROO]

If he discovered it then how were the Indians already there love how we try to rewrite history, but it never adds up lol

Not only that, but the natives greeted Leif Erikson when he got there waaaaaaaay before Columbus set foot on "our" soil!

 

[The Moonshiner]

That's harder for me to answer because I love big sweeping epics like Dances With Wolves or Braveheart.
Australia (with Hugh Lackman and Nicole Kidman) is actually very good and has historical content like DWW or BH.

If you liked Dances with wolves (which I do too)
Curious if you've seen this mini serious?
IDK I always really liked it.

 

[FortCluck]

Chicken Little is another kid movie I could watch over and over again.