Current Events > Now that the dust has finally settled, is it really worth remembering the Alamo?

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Turbam
08/31/23 1:47:40 PM
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The battle was mid, tbh

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Bandit_Keith
08/31/23 1:48:13 PM
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Nah.

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AldousIsDead
08/31/23 1:48:39 PM
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Nope. It was always a joke.

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eggcorn
08/31/23 1:49:03 PM
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The stars at night!

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Starks
08/31/23 1:49:20 PM
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Also a shitty car rental company

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McMarbles
08/31/23 1:49:44 PM
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Nah, we're better off ensuring that all apple pie has ice cream on it.

Remember the a la mode!

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Phenomenal_one
08/31/23 1:50:07 PM
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Too soon to tell.
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Spurner
08/31/23 1:50:31 PM
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I remember the basement
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MarcoRubio
08/31/23 1:50:38 PM
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Too late to tell

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Ivynn
08/31/23 1:50:41 PM
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I forgot.

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Takuya_Lee
08/31/23 1:56:42 PM
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No, but we should all take time to remember the Bowling Green Massacre.

Never forget...

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Were_Wyrm
08/31/23 1:59:03 PM
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never was

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Charismic_Zach_Gowen
08/31/23 2:01:21 PM
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It's absolutely worth remembering that time Texas got it's ass whooped on its home court

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noisetank
08/31/23 2:03:07 PM
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fuck the alamo

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IShall_Run_Amok
08/31/23 2:08:44 PM
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Weird Al Amovich

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hockeybub89
08/31/23 2:11:49 PM
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I am the Alamo

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googs19
08/31/23 2:16:54 PM
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The what?
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VampireCoyote
08/31/23 2:19:08 PM
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The message they overtly tried to make clear to us when I went to elementary school in Texas was that they lost the battle but in the process they killed so many Mexican soldiers that it was still a victory

pretty fucked up thing to teach kids imo

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FortuneCookie
09/01/23 11:37:46 AM
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Ricemills
09/01/23 11:38:33 AM
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I certainly forgot about it until this topic.

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itachi15243
09/01/23 11:42:29 AM
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With the way conservatives treat education, I would be surprised if most kids in Texas schools even learn about the Alamo these days.

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BlackOmnimon
09/01/23 11:43:29 AM
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Just remember that the Texans were fighting to keep slavery after Mexico had outlawed it.

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Thermador446
09/01/23 11:44:02 AM
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It's worth remembering that Ozzy pissed on it and was banned from Texas.
Texas sucks, I'd probably piss all over the Alamo too just to be banned from that shithole.

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ScazarMeltex
09/01/23 11:44:18 AM
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VampireCoyote posted...
The message they overtly tried to make clear to us when I went to elementary school in Texas was that they lost the battle but in the process they killed so many Mexican soldiers that it was still a victory

pretty fucked up thing to teach kids imo
And is also fundamentally untrue. The reason that Mexico lost the war in the end was simply that Santa Anna wasn't a great general despite considering himself the Napoleon of the West. He pursued the Texans into territory familiar to them and not his troops and picked the worst possible place for his camp (over the objections of his officers) at San Jacinto and got his and his army's dick kicked in for it.

The real problem is that we don't teach the context around the conflict because it makes the Texans look assholes (they were). The whole reason the white settlers of Texas declared independence from Mexico was because Mexico had begun the process of ending slavery. The wealthy white settlers who had moved there planned to farm cotton with the slaves they had brought.

So if you had to boil it down to a good/bad guy, Mexico is the good guy. We absolutely would never teach kids that.

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