Lurker > Venixon

masterpug53 posted...

It really helps the message stick in young, impressionable minds when you can hear a firsthand account of someone who lived through something so unimaginably horrible. Like I said earlier, it's not a guarantee that it'll stick with everyone, but being able to hear and empathize with these stories puts the message on a different level than memorizing a list of facts out of a history book.

While there are a multitude of other factors at play here, I really don't think it's a coincidence that Holocaust denial and fascism in general are taking a sudden uptick right around the same time that the few living Holocaust survivors are getting too old to visit schools. Sometimes it feels like those fascist fucks were just biding their time until they all died off.

Your explanation doesn't make a lick of sense. There are lots of things people are never going to experience with their own eyes outside of television and pictures, but know they exist. And you simply cannot expect people to only believe in history unless they've talked to it.

Kai_Laguna posted...

I mean, it was so long ago they've probably never even met a person who served during WW2, let alone a survivor of the camps combined with a certain side of the political spectrum actively trying to memory hole the facts it even happened. It's not really surprising.

What's that got to do with anything? Have you ever met cave men, or people from the medieval ages, or seen real live dinosaurs? You learned about them though.

El_Marsh posted...

Americans are poorly educated about world history in general and legislators have actively worked to make it more difficult to teach history that includes things like genocide and state sponsored racism.

Therefore, a statement like the one in the title is hardly unbelievable.

I suppose nowadays that is true. We did learn both world history, current events and our own history. Some states keep trying to worsen the education standards for some reason. Why? I don't really understand it.

Worthless shit heads. They deserve a major ass whooping for being stupid and uncaring.

$5 says they're all in the southern states, and a few midwest ones and has it pounded into their heads by racist ignorant family members and teachers.

SAlYAN posted...

I enjoy pineapple on pizza

Pineapple on pizza is a-

Hell no. That's just begging for a very avoidable death. It reminds me of those wall planters.

Jaws
Nightmare on Elm Street
Halloween
Scream

There's too many classics. I can't pick just 4!

Why are you asking about movies and showing a poll about wrestlers?