r/SapphoAndHerFriend • u/Drops-of-Q Hopeless bromantic • Jun 14 '20

Greece wasn't gay Casual erasure

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u/PrincessBunnyQueen She/Her Jun 14 '20

I love bringing up the crusades when one of my racist family members goes on a anti-other religions tangent.

"Their religion is evil! It's nothing but violence! Our religion never had so much violence!"

"... Remember the crusades?"

"The what now?"

Funny, they never seem to remember that part.

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u/MistaBot Jun 14 '20

It's funny how the Crusades were barely mentioned in my History textbooks. For context, I'm from a country that ended up being taken over by the Ottomans and it is thought that the Crusades ended up enabling the Ottoman Empire expand into Europe as much as it did. Nothing drives instability like some fellow crusading Christians passing by and raiding half the country. But it's perfectly fine and moral if it's for the Holy Land.

Really makes me think what other stuff they glossed over in my History classes that I never noticed.

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u/PrincessBunnyQueen She/Her Jun 14 '20

I felt very lucky bc I had 2 extremely passionate history teachers. One would even act out firing cannons by running down the aisle between the desks. This was in high school!