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THE INCREDIBLY DEPRESSING ANSWERS COLLEGE STUDENTS GAVE WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST
The Blaze ^

Posted on 10/18/2013 5:21:46 AM PDT by bryan999

A Pennsylvania woman set out with a video camera to learn what college students in her state know about the Holocaust — and discovered an incredible lack of knowledge not only of the genocide of the Jews, but of basic facts about U.S. history and World War II.

Rhonda Fink-Whitman visited college campuses in Pennsylvania this fall, including the venerated Ivy League institution the University of Pennsylvania, where she was repeatedly faced with a remarkable ignorance about events that took place in the last century.

Students didn’t know where Normandy was, why U.S. forces landed there, why the U.S. even entered the war or who was president at the time. (Wilson, Eisenhower and JFK were among the guesses.) One student didn’t know who Anne Frank was, because he said he never read the book.

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KEYWORDS: academicbias; andtheyvote; dumbingdown; holocaust; idocracy; kollege
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To: bryan999
No need to learn anything when it's all on google. Read The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein.
21 posted on 10/18/2013 5:43:47 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (http://jonah2eight.blogspot.com/)
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To: bryan999

There are pages in textbook dedicated to slavery,opression of American Indians and black radicals. They teach that the founding fathers were all just old white guys who just loved money.
No surprise that they would gloss over the killings by a Socialist regime, just they never teach about the mass killings by Stalin, Mao and pol pot.


22 posted on 10/18/2013 5:46:22 AM PDT by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: bryan999
My 11 YO son was shaken up while playing football last Saturday. No surprise, he plays guard and usually gives up 20-30 pounds on his opponent.

I went down to the sideline, and one of the coaches told me they were sitting him for a few plays as it was a helmet to helmet hit.

To make sure he was ok, I asked him 3 questions:

What happened on June 6, 1944? D-Day...check

What happened on March 6, 1836? Battle of the Alamo...check

What happened on Nov 22, 1963? I had to give him a hint, because we haven't spoken that much about JFK's assassination. I told him I was in 4th grade...click.

I told the coaches he was good to go. His teammates had a look of awe...I guess their dads aren't history buffs.

As to the Holocaust, I got all the teaching I needed from two trips each to Dachau and Flossenburg concentration camps. I could literally feel the evil that remains at these two sites.

23 posted on 10/18/2013 5:50:52 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

post-modernism—the only reality is within the mind of the individual, nothing else exists except what they perceive. Purely Satanic.


24 posted on 10/18/2013 5:54:36 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: bryan999

Amazing.


25 posted on 10/18/2013 5:57:09 AM PDT by verga (Si hoc legere scis, nimium eruditionis)
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To: bryan999

I was expected ignorance, but not this level.


26 posted on 10/18/2013 5:58:18 AM PDT by gattaca ("Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Night Hides Not

When I was in school we learned about the camps and war but I’ve really only studied the thinking and social manipulation that led to it in the last few years.

I like to challenge the left to put the Occupy Wall Street manifesto next to the nazi party planks and compare. Its rather chilling how similar they are.


27 posted on 10/18/2013 5:58:34 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: bryan999

UGH. To think, they are allowed to vote.


28 posted on 10/18/2013 5:59:15 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: bryan999
"Hey Man...Don't rain on (expose) my extreme ignorance...
AND WHERE'S MY BONG!!!?"


Those whom don't learn from history, are likely doomed to repeat it.

29 posted on 10/18/2013 6:00:17 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: bryan999

This is all part of the plan. You can’t inoculate kids against tyranny if they have no understanding of what’s gone on in the world over the last few thousand years.

In my readings about the founding fathers I am amazed of their grasp of history. That’s one of the things that brought them to greatness. We are so dumbed down, and anything can be done with the young people because of this.

My son’s school history book on the pilgrims began with a chapter on how women had no rights. True story.


30 posted on 10/18/2013 6:01:13 AM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: bryan999

I blame the parents

my kids know the answers to these questions


31 posted on 10/18/2013 6:02:42 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: bryan999

The”<LEFT”has SUCCEEDED!We now have a generation that has been “Educated”from”Day Care”through University with NOTHING more than PROPOGANDA!!They will ALL be”Dependable”voters for “The Leftist Agenda”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


32 posted on 10/18/2013 6:04:08 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: bryan999

Why are those kids in college? Is Penn State just adult daycare now?


33 posted on 10/18/2013 6:04:19 AM PDT by HomeAtLast (The original Tea Party entailed a willingness to do without some tea.)
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To: bryan999
Students didn’t know where Normandy was, why U.S. forces landed there, why the U.S. even entered the war or who was president at the time.

Of they couldn't answer these questions. There are only so many hours in the classroom and in the day, and when you have to learn how homos, lezbos, and transgendereds have contributed to history, some other events and facts have to suffer. Theye probably think the Soviet Union was a benign state too!

34 posted on 10/18/2013 6:05:31 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: ClearCase_guy
I need to feel good about myself...I mean, I voted for Obama, so, like,
obviously I'm really smart, and really a good person, so ...
VERY VERY CHILLING, IF TRUE...
seems to be...

35 posted on 10/18/2013 6:06:17 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: bryan999

Todays students should be sent to the camps to live the experience.


36 posted on 10/18/2013 6:06:56 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)
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To: arthurus
Most or all of those kids went to public school. People who care for their children as other than fashion accessories will keep them out of public school.

Sending your kids to public school is akin to child abuse!

37 posted on 10/18/2013 6:07:21 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: bryan999
The woman is right that the Holocaust should be part of history in our schools. In the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Night by Elie Wiesel is read by 8th graders - the Holocaust is part of the curriculum. Our parish students get to hear an actual Holocaust survivor come speak to them.

All that said, a lot of the details this lady cares about aren't really that important, not with information so easily google-able. And there weren't that many really big dopes in the video. And most of the real dumdums were Penn State Abington or Temple kids. It's worth noting that there's a huge spectrum of intelligence and education at those institutions. We could be looking at kids who came from inner city public schools with 400's on each section of their SAT's but with 4.0 averages in high school. In all likelihood they're a reflection of a truly horrible education, not an otherwise good education which has this one gaping hole.

38 posted on 10/18/2013 6:07:23 AM PDT by old and tired
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To: DoodleDawg
Were the historical morons the exception or the rule?

If you spend time speaking with young adults I think you'll find more evidence for the rule than the exception.

39 posted on 10/18/2013 6:10:24 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: bryan999

There was an excellent series on WWII produced in the early seventies by the BBC, I think. The opening had this doleful music with heartbreaking pictures of refugees and shell shocked kids during the blitz. I got most of my WWII history from that series. It’s been colorized and rerun recently.


40 posted on 10/18/2013 6:10:25 AM PDT by quietly desperate
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