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META: Today's sedition at the United States Capitol is something unprecedented in American history

56697 upvotes • indyobserver

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George Floyd was murdered by America: a historian's perspective on the history of U.S. police brutality against Black people

38232 upvotes • sunagainstgold

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[X-Post] Reddit's unwillingness to properly contain COVID-19 misinformation is part of a broad trend of inadequate action by the Admins against bad faith actors. We stand with our fellow mod teams in calling on reddit to improve. NSFW

34097 upvotes • Georgy_K_Zhukov

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AskHistorians is closing to new posts from 8:30 PM EDT to 12 PM EDT tomorrow to protest the reddit admins' providing a home for hate speech.

33939 upvotes • sunagainstgold

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Askhistorians has a policy of zero tolerance for genocide denial

28059 upvotes • commiespaceinvader

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Is it possible with ancient cultures that we are falsely misled to think they took their beliefs entirely seriously? I.E similar to someone in 3000 years discovering all our Santa decor...

19503 upvotes • Powder9

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hey mods, i know you’ll remove this but i just wanna say thank you for making this such a professional and truly educational subreddit, keep up the good work :)

17793 upvotes • shmecklestein

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Dolly Parton had a famous song "9 to 5", yet every full time job I have had is 8 to 5. Did people work one hour less in the 80s? How did we lose that hour?

17413 upvotes • TVotte

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How did the dandelion, an edible and remarkably versatile plant, come to be classified as a weed?

17214 upvotes • ask-if-im-a-bucket

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[META] Tomorrow AskHistorians will go private

16429 upvotes • SarahAGilbert

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
META: Today's sedition at the United States Capitol is something unprecedented in American history	56697	indyobserver
George Floyd was murdered by America: a historian's perspective on the history of U.S. police brutality against Black people	38232	sunagainstgold
[X-Post] Reddit's unwillingness to properly contain COVID-19 misinformation is part of a broad trend of inadequate action by the Admins against bad faith actors. We stand with our fellow mod teams in calling on reddit to improve. NSFW	34097	Georgy_K_Zhukov
AskHistorians is closing to new posts from 8:30 PM EDT to 12 PM EDT tomorrow to protest the reddit admins' providing a home for hate speech.	33939	sunagainstgold
Askhistorians has a policy of zero tolerance for genocide denial	28059	commiespaceinvader
Is it possible with ancient cultures that we are falsely misled to think they took their beliefs entirely seriously? I.E similar to someone in 3000 years discovering all our Santa decor...	19503	Powder9
hey mods, i know you’ll remove this but i just wanna say thank you for making this such a professional and truly educational subreddit, keep up the good work :)	17793	shmecklestein
Dolly Parton had a famous song "9 to 5", yet every full time job I have had is 8 to 5. Did people work one hour less in the 80s? How did we lose that hour?	17413	TVotte
How did the dandelion, an edible and remarkably versatile plant, come to be classified as a weed?	17214	ask-if-im-a-bucket
[META] Tomorrow AskHistorians will go private	16429	SarahAGilbert