SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: They told their children that Columbus discovered America. They told their children that the frontier was empty.

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They told their children that Columbus discovered America. They told their children that the frontier was empty. They told their children that slavery ended and then everyone worked together to build a great nation. They told their children that they entered the World Wars reluctantly, purely to defend freedom, and asked for nothing in return. They told their children that the Cold War was a noble struggle of freedom against tyranny and that every intervention in every poor country was part of that struggle. They told their children that their country has sometimes made mistakes but always, in its heart, on the right side. Generation after generation after generation. And then they are confused, genuinely confused, when the people who were on the receiving end of that history have a different account of it. Not a different interpretation. A different account. Because they were there. The children who were told the beautiful story and the people who lived through the actual events are describing different realities. And the children who were told the beautiful story have been trained to believe that their version, the one taught in their schools, the one in their films, the one that makes them feel clean, is the neutral one.

12:45 AM · Apr 11, 2026