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| Topic | One in five young Americans thinks the Holocaust is a myth |
| masterpug53 02/02/24 2:27:28 PM #37: | SHRlKE posted...
Im 40 and neither have I. You dont need to meet a WW2 veteran to not be ignorant of the holocaust. Venixon posted... 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 know about them though. 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. --- Simple questions deserve long-winded answers that no one will bother to read. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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