It must have been hard narrowing the list down to 10

[schmiss]

10 Historical 'Facts' Only a Right-Winger Could Believe
Facts, including historical ones, are 'biased' against the right's worldview.

Comments

[belleweather]

How is "The civil war wasn't about slavery" not on this list?

[jessebaker]

Because a lot of liberals will concede that slavery, while the main issue, was part of a larger mosaic of reasons why the war happened.

The South, who's economy was slowly being encroached by the North's growing industrial strength and who's leaders were becoming more and more right-winged by the moment, would have inevitably found some other BS reason to try and leave the Union. Stuff like tariffs, territory disputes, rise of a non-batshit crazy Republican Party, and the general issue of the South thinking it was above the laws as far as "we can nullify any federal law we don't like", was all there along with slavery.

Slavery gets all the talk however, because it was the biggest elephant in the room and all of the other causes of the Civil War fed into the larger problem of slavery. Hence, it's easier for a lot of people to say slavery and then go backwards from it to explain the other reasons in relations to slavery than it is to list them side by side.

[gretchystretchy]

Oh goddddd #4. Every fucking time reproductive rights get discussed in one of my classes, a conservadouche (almost always a guy, SHOCKING RIGHT) will bring it up. And I conjure up every ounce of self-control I have to resist stabbing them.

[carmy_w]

I don't blame you!
Guess you could start diverting by pointing out to him that in that world, even he could have been arrested for attempting to buy condoms, even if he was married!
Comstock really believed that Monte Python song....

[blackjedii]

Theodore Roosevelt was a naval theorist and war aficionado, a lawman in both the Dakota Territory and New York City, and a cheerful imperialist. You'd think conservatives would appreciate him better. But Glenn Beck has helped turn that around, lambasting TR at last year's CPAC and denouncing his words as "a socialist utopia" which "we need to address ... as if it is a cancer."

What the hell man.

I mean, I know it's Glenn Beck but outside of the racist wtf-ery Roosevelt had, how can someone hate him as a President? He is - to me - the Ideal Conservative and I mean that in a good way.

Oh wait - I guess it's the whole "Big Business is Eeeevil" thing or some shit.

Also my grandmother declared to me one that that she would never vote Democrat after "that awful, awful FDR." I don't get it at all - how can you live through the 40s and not appreciate the lengths FDR went through to just keep USA stable?

[carmy_w]

You've got to remember that most of the people who benefited from The New Deal as adults are dead or in their nineties now.

My mom is the same way as your grandmother. She was born in '36, so she really didn't have any personal inkling of how the ND affected the country.

[baked_goldfish]

[azetburcaptain]

SAVED because it's the truth

[salienne]

Preeeeetty much.

[wrestlingdog]

I snorted out loud. Well done.

[bluetooth16]

Luckily I'm a right winger who didn't believe in anything on this list. I don't like FDR, but I know he was evil.

[salienne]

I don't like FDR, but I know he was evil.

O.o

Um... typo, I'm hoping?

[bluetooth16]

WORST TYPO EVER! I MEANT TO SAY THAT HE ISN'T EVIL!!

[salienne]

lol! I thought so but just wanted to be sure.