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For years now, Americans have been taught a very specific version of history. One where the United States is cast as the central villain of nearly every evil story that’s ever been committed. Slavery. Racism. Exploitation. Even climate change is framed as if it sprung uniquely from American soil, or at the very least, Americans are the worst offenders.
This framing follows a very specific pattern. The globalists love to strip history of its context, remove everything that complicates the story and their narrative, and reduce thousands of years of human behavior down to a single country and lots of self-loathing and guilt. It’s easier to control a society when it’s taught to despise itself, right?
Slavery is one of the best examples of how twisted this narrative has become. If you walk outside and ask the average student what they’ve been taught about slavery, most would tell you that it was a uniquely “American thing” that was tied to the founding of our nation. What they’re hardly ever told is that slavery existed across nearly every civilization, on every continent, for thousands of years. Way before the US came to be. What they’re also not being told is which societies actually led the movement to abolish it.
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That’s why a recent video from journalist John Stossel has struck a nerve.
Stossel takes on the slave myth by talking with political science professor Wilfred Reilly, who argues that much of what Americans are taught about slavery is totally wrong or wildly incomplete. These two guys walk the viewers through the uncomfortable facts that get skipped in classrooms, including how rare abolition actually was, how small America’s role was in the global slave trade compared to other regions, and how history has been flattened to serve a modern left-wing political agenda.
Stossel and Reilly are pushing back on things like the New York Times’ 1619 Project, which claims America’s sin is unmatched. Reilly says that out of the roughly 10 to 12 million Africans taken to the New World, fewer than 400,000 came to what became the United States. Most of them actually went to other places. He also explains that generational, permanent slavery existed across cultures way before America existed, including in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.
Reilly’s point is that teaching students that America was some uniquely evil deity creates a false picture of history, and it does nothing to solve today’s problems.
Many act as if slavery was a uniquely American crime.
“One reason,” says author Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630), “is that a lot of black people survived here.”
He argues that much of what Americans are taught about slavery is just wrong: pic.twitter.com/GOQvqxPCZj
— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) December 8, 2025
After watching it, one thing becomes very clear… this isn’t about erasing history. It’s about telling the full story instead of a politically convenient one.
And that brings us to a second clip that reinforces the same point from a different angle.
Another user named Brett Pike recently broke down why slavery education focuses almost always on the “transatlantic slave trade” while ignoring other massive slave systems that lasted way longer and enslaved so many more people. Brett points to the Ottoman Empire, the trans-Saharan trade, and the trans-Indian Ocean trade, which enslaved millions over centuries, often with sexual slavery.
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Brett explains that once you stop watering down history and actually put it in proper context, the whole story they’ve been selling falls apart. In 1776, most of the world still practiced slavery. Britain and the US were among the first to actually move to end slavery and then enforce that decision, even using force at times, while the rest of the world kept going, full-steam ahead.
Slavery had been the norm throughout all of history, for thousands of years, impacting all people, including millions of Europeans enslaved in the Ottoman Empire – which had institutionalized the sexual slavery of European women. Yet children are led to believe that slavery was a… pic.twitter.com/cirp6D8Nzh
— Brett Pike (@ClassicLearner) December 8, 2025
When you look at these two videos together, you really start to expose something bigger than just some history dispute. They reveal how selective storytelling is used as a political weapon. History has been “weaponized.” Because when history is taught this way, it becomes propaganda.
Acknowledging that slavery existed everywhere doesn’t somehow make it okay. But what it does do is tell the truth. And it reminds people how actual progress is made.
So, if the goal is a healthier and better society, the answer isn’t weaponized history. It’s honest history.
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