Sunday, April 22, 2018

When Kids Know More About Gender Fluidity Than Auschwitz, Your Culture is Toast - TheResurgent.com

When Kids Know More About Gender Fluidity Than Auschwitz, Your Culture is Toast - TheResurgent.com:
"Maybe it's time to start focus on teaching what happened in the past instead of Howard Zinn social activist history?
...this story from the Washington Post:
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Two-thirds of American millennials surveyed in a recent poll cannot identify what Auschwitz is, according to a study released on Holocaust Remembrance Day that found that knowledge of the genocide that killed 6 million Jews during World War II is not robust among American adults.
Twenty-two percent of millennials in the poll said they haven’t heard of the Holocaust or are not sure whether they’ve heard of it — twice the percentage of U.S. adults as a whole who said the same.
Asked to identify what Auschwitz is, 41 percent of respondents and 66 percent of millennials could not come up with a correct response identifying it as a concentration camp or extermination camp.
...Not knowing what Auschwitz was? 
How can anyone look at that and say that there need not be an immediate re-emphasis on some of the actual facts of history as opposed to what we’re seeing in academia today: the Howard Zinn “history as a social struggle” approach, intentionally formulating bias to create social activism in students.
Because as others have noted, when a larger percentage of your country’s youth can expound upon the meaning of gender fluidity than they can what happened at Auschwitz, the future is imperiled..."
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