Posted on 10/18/2013 5:21:46 AM PDT by bryan999
As one of Polish heritage, my pet peeve is when they are referred to as “Polish Death Camps”, it happens all the time, and I suspect the people that do it, have a hidden agenda when they refer to them as such.
I think she made that case very adequately, by including two or three students who knew the answers, and then stated that they had Holocaust instruction in their public schools in New Jersey, or had been taken to the Holocaust Museum in Washington on a field trip. She is trying to get Pennsylvania to adopt Holocaust/genocide instruction in public schools, and she went to Pennsylvania colleges to make the video -- UPenn, Penn State, and Temple U were identified by their logos in various scenes. Students who had not received genocide education did not know the answers.
My first reaction was when I read the title was here is proof of educated idiots but after I watched the video I came to realize how can they know if they have never been taught the history of the holocaust and World War2 in the public schools
The fact that there is anyone - even one person - admitted to any university who doesn’t know basic information about the world wars is shocking enough.
Genocide like the Death Panels in DeathCare thanks to OBayMe and the RATs and RINOs in Congress aka Capos?
Anyone asking how many will die while the politicians in DC force DeathCare on We The People?
I couldn’t agree more with you. I have three children that were public schooled and one that was home schooled. Now they are all grown, I see a significant difference in their ability to reason and distinguish right from wrong. I’m not saying the three are bad but are prone to poor judgment and can be more easily deceived. As much as I tried to intervene, it was a constant battle.
It was an entirely different system. From America's earliest days, men handled the civic rules; women held honored status through theological rules and were of paramount importance by custom among those men who upheld the dominant Christian culture. Although there were always some who fell short, Christ instructed men to love their wives as He loved the church. The social measure of true manhood in frontier times was the temperate, hard-working man who protected and provided for his family, and was the spiritual leader of the family. A wife was a man's necessary partner in the agriculture-based economy; and the children she gave him assured enough labor and a continual ownership of private property.
At the beginning of the 20th century that led up to WW1 and WW2, we saw the rise of immigration by non-Christians, industrialization and urbanization that began stripping earlier generations of American women of their status, although many families attempted to continue the pattern until the 1970s, when Marxism overtook the universities and the judiciary.
When I was young my dad would get his shirts for work cleaned and pressed at a local laundry. Two very nice men ran the business. One never spoke he could only grunt. And they both seemed to always wear long sleeve shirts that covered their arms. One day they both were working so hard that they had taken their shirts off. On both men’s forearms you could see numbers tattooed. We left the store and I asked my dad what that was. He explained to me that they were Jewish men who survived the Holocaust. He explained what that was and what a concentration camp was. I was amazed. Much later in life I did get to go to Dachau. And I agree the evil was palpable.
I almost never post here anymore, but your ping prompts me to comment that to my dying day I will remember the day when my 8th grade girlfriend’s mother rolled her sleeve up, showed us the death camp tattoo and told us never to forget (her imagery of the lime pits is burned into my memory)...and we never have nor ever will.
I hope it is a comfort to you to know that as an older person who grew up in the Baltimore-Washington area and has stayed well-informed all my life, I have never heard that term used except as a way to indicate the location of a particular camp; although I am aware that Poles were targeted as well as Jews, gypsies and homosexuals. My perception was that most of the camps were in Germany.
I agree; I couldn't help but think of that, especially at the end when she said, "Genocide is going on today. Right now." But we do not actually know what this woman's point of view is about abortion or socialized medicine, so I guess she gets the benefit of the doubt until proven Democrat...
It's so important for people of all ages to know that it only took Hitler less than seven years to go from getting elected to starting up the death camps. People, wake up!
(PS - Nice to hear from you on the Forum!!!)
Those who fail to learn the lessons from the evil events in history are bound to repeat them.
They don’t teach it because they intend to repeat it, and don’t want youth to recognize the warning signs.
But our school system is different. That's what the Superintendent tells us. And the teachers are really nice...
Yeah, we homeschooled ours. The best decision we have made for our children. No regrets. The fact that people who went through government schools can't imagine anything different, tells you that government schools do what they were designed to do.
Bless both your posts. I, too, saw the tattoos on the forearms of an older married couple who ran a neighborhood grocery in the 70s.
Four more years of avoiding employment, in many cases.
Probably a little more than half of all concentration camps were in occupied countries. All of the death camps were in Poland. There are maps available of the locations and types.
Good Lord.
Thank you for the clarification. Just sayin', I never associated the term with anything other than location, and automatically attributed the camps to Germany.
Many of the Founding Fathers went to English universities.
I visited some in 1959 and there were portraits of several on the walls of the university.
They were unusual and educated men.
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