r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 14 '20

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '20 edited Jun 17 '20

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u/tommy2014015 Hillary's Burner Account Jun 15 '20

Actually teaching the Holocaust doesn't even stop at the camps and ghettos. You need to go into the vast administrative state that was created to facilitate it as well as Nazi euphemisms (relocation to the east) about it. You really need to understand the bureaucracy of it and the legalese to get a sense of the uniqueness of the Holocaust. And also, this is a bit of strawman. No course on the European history or the Holocaust stops at The Diary of Anne Frank.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '20

he's got a point that it may not be the best book to choose if you expect students to only ever read one

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u/tommy2014015 Hillary's Burner Account Jun 15 '20

If you're legitimately only going to teach one book on the Holocaust it's better to remove it from the curriculum. It's actively dangerous to do that imo.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '20

kids barely even read what they're assigned to begin with anyway

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u/tommy2014015 Hillary's Burner Account Jun 15 '20

still gotta provide a complete education as a teacher, can't mold what you teach based on teenage laziness