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- Aug 27, 2019
Learning about the holocaust is important, but I find when teaching WWII too many teachers neglect other important aspects of the war and its lead up. It took me taking a specialized course on the Asia-Pacific War to learning anything about what was going on there during the war or what was going on there before the Americans came in. It's also important to learn about the experience of those who survived the camps or managed to hide for the duration of the war, but not at the cost of zero discussion on the experiences of non-Jewish civilians trying to survive as well.I've said this before but when I came back to the US after years of living in Mexico, I has suprised how much American schools obsess over Natsoc Germany, especially the holocaust.
My first day in American school gathered us in the gym to listen to an old man ramble about how he was in the camps and how we could learn more from buying his $40 book, every year we had lessons about the holocaust in English class. why english? I don't know, but it was getting on my nerves how every year we had 2 months dedicated to an issue that didn't happen on US soil nor was our problem.
Now did we focus on how the Nationalists rose to power and their methods? no, we just focus on the poor defensless jews who died for our sins, now go read Eli Weasel's account on how the evil nazis threw jewish babies into the air as target practice for Gatling guns.
It's also just great that when teaching world history most teachers just speed through WWI so that they can spend several months on WWII and not even cover that well because they just speed through everything before grinding to a halt to spend several weeks/a month on just the holocaust.
My imagination immediately took me to imagining Tucker Carlson dressing up as Danny from Grease, hairstyle and all. Don't know if it's a cursed image but it's something.It's even more ridiculous than that. She claims she had a wired mic and was essentially "tied down" to a chair and couldn't escape and that he changed from a suit jacket to a leather jacket in front of her. The HORROR!
Tells me how ridiculous the story sounds.