Posted on 04/12/2018 2:12:06 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Mission Accomplished.
...and 1/3 believes the earth is flat.
It’s almost as if someone wanted to dumb down a generation so they’re more compliant & accepting of totalitarianism.
How many people died in WWI - without looking it up please.
And therefore likely that 9 in 10 have no idea of the many 10s of millions killed by Stalin and Mao. Since they are uneducated, they believe the propaganda that socialism / communism would be just super.
This really has nothing to do with our education system. I never about any of this in school. It wasn’t because I got a poor education. It just isn’t a subject that would be covered in any of the history classes we had. It’s not like Auschwitz was in Pennsylvania.
the public schools here start teaching the holocaust in 4th grade. Too early IMO. Catholic schools, maybe 6th?
I wish they would cover Communist slaughters. For sure they cover the deaths in the American slave trade and wars against the natives.
For sure they don’t cover Muslim conquest and slaughter.
What a bloody species we are.
Even here in downtown Dallas, there is a Holocaust Museum.
I hate polls like this. They really don't tell us much. In some public schools the teachers are allowed to actually spend their time teaching students who are curious and inquisitive. In other public schools, the teachers' primary concern is staying off worldstar as they're getting beaten to a pulp for taking away someone's cell phone.
Soldiers - 10,000 a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year for over four years.
Non-combatants, probably a like number.
Forget how many died...they don’t even know what WW I was all about, what started it, nor who won.
They also don’t know about Wounded Knee and the Trail of Tears either.
I had it my history class. A lot on it. But that was decades ago.
I bet not 1 in 10 know that Soviet and Maoist Communists killed ~100 millions in the 20th Century, either.
Public education is all about victims and oppressors, you can bet the Holocaust gets covered in detail at the expense of other equally significant events and periods.
your number 14.5MM +
wiki 9-11MM
I would give the kids a pass on not knowing the number.
Then they certainly know of the tens of millions Of his own people Stalin murdered. Or the tens of millions of his own people Mao murdered.
I agree.
There are a number of countries throughout history with things such as this.
It seems to me that WW2 Jewish deaths are the most famous in the world.
By far.
Less than were killed by the Spanish flu.
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