• Hot Saucerman@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Happy Fake Labor Day to the Americans, because their government wants to hide real labor day from their citizens so they don’t have to educate them about the Haymarket Affair.

    Labor Day being in September is absolutely about erasing labor history. If more people knew labor history, more people would understand why All Cops Are Bastards.

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        1 year ago

        I sort of knew about this but not the details. Reading that article shows just how far America has failed to come in 50 years.

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      1 year ago

      You are correct, the American website Wikipedia definitely does not have an article on Haymarket

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        1 year ago

        be me american sees OP comment googles haymarket affair first result is Wikipedia article for haymarket affair 😐

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      It was reasonable at the time to separate celebration of labor from Haymarket massacre, where an anarchist through a bomb into otherwise peaceful labor rally killing both the police and the civilian with many workers being injured and triggering the riot. The labor leaders in US then decided to make labor day to be not associated with these bloody events, which have little relationship with the labor movement itself. Not sure why you refer here to ACAB, the policemen were victims here.

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      1 year ago

      Mentioning America on a post that has nothing to do with America specifically? Yeah, this type of thing is ripped straight off of Reddit.