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George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter what the fuck
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I was just informed that peanut butter was not only used by the Incas, Dr. Kellogg (of cereal fame) patented a process for producing it in 1895, after its development in the U.S. in 1890.
I was always taught that is was invented by George Washington Carver. This was the thing you learned every February after Martin Luther King and the abolition of slavery.
So this begs the question: Were my school teachers full of lies and deceit? Or were they just ignorant public servants?
A google search for "carver invented peanut butter" reveals that nearly every result says something different.
-The above information is from Wikipedia.
-Inventors.About.com alledges that "George Washington Carver started popularizing uses for peanut products including peanut butter, paper, ink, and oils beginning in 1880."
-And teacher.scholastic.com, the fuckers who I'm sure anyone who went to American public school will remember, tell us that George Washington Carver (1860–1943) invented peanut butter and 400 plant products!
Fast Fact: Carver was born a slave. He didn't go to college until he was 30.
What the fuck, teachers? Do your fucking research, quit lying. Now every time I reach for some peanut butter, it is if I am reaching for a container of vile and odious lies.
So, SE++, I leave it to you to make this into either a [lying educators] thread, or a [black history] thread.
Discuss.
I was always taught that is was invented by George Washington Carver. This was the thing you learned every February after Martin Luther King and the abolition of slavery.
So this begs the question: Were my school teachers full of lies and deceit? Or were they just ignorant public servants?
A google search for "carver invented peanut butter" reveals that nearly every result says something different.
-The above information is from Wikipedia.
-Inventors.About.com alledges that "George Washington Carver started popularizing uses for peanut products including peanut butter, paper, ink, and oils beginning in 1880."
-And teacher.scholastic.com, the fuckers who I'm sure anyone who went to American public school will remember, tell us that George Washington Carver (1860–1943) invented peanut butter and 400 plant products!
Fast Fact: Carver was born a slave. He didn't go to college until he was 30.
What the fuck, teachers? Do your fucking research, quit lying. Now every time I reach for some peanut butter, it is if I am reaching for a container of vile and odious lies.
So, SE++, I leave it to you to make this into either a [lying educators] thread, or a [black history] thread.
Discuss.
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Also, Americans were pretty fucking enormous assholes to the Injuns.
Furthermore, Americans were mostly interested in the Civil War for States' rights, not the immorality of slavery.
Those are just a couple examples of things that come as a shock as you realize how much of your time you had wasted in elementary school and middleschool, and sadly even a little bit of highschool.
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I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
Patting all myselfs on the back.
I kind of really want to go hunt down my grade school teachers and start screaming until I'm out of breath. I mean, I know you don't get paid shit and have to work with a bunch of idiot kids, but tell the truth, fucker.
Indians and Pilgrims? Not best of friends.
Lincoln? Not very abolitionist.
All history besides 1642-1945 in North America? Happened. Talk about it also.
Also there were black slave-owners.
Take THAT Oprah
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
Fuck what.
When did...oh you bASTARD
Was that when I showed it to viv or were you the guy that promised to call us when you were drunk?
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
In the end I will only let you down
or maybe not
call me drunk
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
Except the ones who are awesome.
Where did you get that idea?
schools teach it as part of black history month
All I ever got told is that he pioneered a new way of farming them
Nothing about peanut butter
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I was such a nerd I would actually just read the textbook sometimes and mostly ignore the teacher.
Their idea of a curriculum for "talented" students at my school was giving them textbooks and more work than other kids
what the fuck
what the hell neatorama
i mean some of it, sure
but history is written by the people who win or have more power in general
or when people get all excited over a new discovery
remember being taught about the powerful brontosaurus?
then later - boom! never existed.
oh how about oh-so-long ago when they said broccoli caused cancer?
then later took it back, saying that it actually helped prevent it?
okay so the last one there isn't history
but it's an example of how people are constantly changing their minds about crap
man i could totally rant about this
man don't get me started on "analyzing" shakespeare's works
as if there was ever any wrong answers
not too bad
watching arse play halflife
he (himself, not as freeman) is dying a phlegmy death, poor dude
how about yourself?
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You hit dementia a while ago Darth.
Now what do I have to look forward to? Oh, right: senility. I hear tell that senility is nice this time of year.
zinn is a pretty fascinating dude
Oh you get to look forward to yelling at inanimate objects in the street, pissing anywhere you like, stealing other peoples food, shuffling around making other people feel unconfortable, saying everything was better in your day, hitting people with your walking stick.
Basically all the good stuff!