Instagram influencer, 22, claims learning about WWII would hit millennials' mental health [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | November 1, 2019 | Sebastian Murphy-Bates and Mark Duell

[C19fan]

An Instagram influencer, 22, claims that learning about World War Two will hit millennials' mental health after Apprentice stars revealed that they didn't know the dates of a conflict that claimed 80 million lives.

Reality TV star Freddie Bentley told Good Morning Britain today that he thinks schools should trim back what they teach on the topic.

'It was a hard situation, World War Two, I don't want anyone to think I'm being disrespectful,' he said, but added: 'I remember learning it as a child thinking "Oh my God it's so intense".'

[a fool in paradise]

They literally fought Hitler and Nazis!!!

[al_c]

"Instagram Influencer"?

[PIF]

Depending on how one counts either civilian, combat or both, 80 million is either wildly under-counted or wildly over-counted.

Combat deaths for the US, USSR, Germany, Italy, Poland, Yugoslavia, are in the neighborhood of 32,000,000

Civilian deaths for the same countries 34,000,000 (this counts only deaths of citizens for each country due to war - not concentration or gulag numbers).

Figures for China, Japan and other Allied countries are sketchy or not broken out from the sources I could find. But nowhere near 80,000,000. If you want to go whole hog, so to speak, with gulag, concentration camp, assassinations, and deliberate starvation, the numbers climb to over 200,000,000.

[bravo whiskey]

The Brits also whistle THE DAM BUSTERS theme when playing the Germans.

[Shadow44]

A lot of public schools don’t teach that already as is. I tentatively agree with the editorial to an extent, because in certain cases there is an excessive fixation on it. There’s places where they have an entire class focused solely on the Holocaust for a semester.

I’m not saying it’s not important, but I don’t think people realize the level of saturation and hamfistedness it is for a lot of kids, and all it does in a lot of cases is cause a backlash because then they adopt Holocaust Revisionism to be edgy, cool, and rebellious. Being a left wing radical isn’t edgy anymore, it’s making the teacher mad and cry by trolling them by saying, “Hitler did nothing wrong.”

[Larry Lucido]

“Hey Germany, you can’t be a country no more on account of you keep attacking the world. Who do you think you are, Mars?”

[Thank You Rush]

“”Oh my God it’s so intense””

My goodness - poor thing! Better not step outside his own door if learning history is “so intense.”

Please - stop the world - it’s not I WANT TO GET OFF - it’s to let people like him jump off!! And good riddance!

[READINABLUESTATE]

WW2 joke,

“Hitler and Goring are standing atop the Berlin radio tower. Hitler says he wants to do something to put a smile on Berliners’ faces. So Goring says: ‘Why don’t you jump?’”

-a German factory worker was reportedly executed for telling this one.

[Rdct29]

History will be the only thing they have left if they keep going down the road they are on. Today’s snowflakes don’t want to hear or learn about something if they don’t like or agree with it.

[Army Air Corps]

Ah, but his argument is, in short, that it is too scary. Yeah, we cannot expose the kiddies to scary things, yannow.

[HotHunt]

Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it, so said someone famous.

[Ron H.]

What in the world is an “instagram influencer”?

Was thinking the same thing myself. I have not a clue and actually I don't want to know what it is. It must have something to do with what the common core (un)educated gen ?'s do these days.

[VanDeKoik]

To think that I’ve been reading about it, and watching documentaries on it since I was a teenager back in the mid 90s, and I dont have any issues.

I seriously cant stand 90% of that generation.

[Pollster1]

Ah, but his argument is, in short, that it is too scary. Yeah, we cannot expose the kiddies to scary things, yannow.

There is a reason why Grimm's Fairy Tales were so grim. I made sure my kids heard the original versions - and the details of national socialists and soviet socialists - so they would be prepared for the level of evil that they will certainly encounter in their lives.

[VanDeKoik]

Basically a paid spokesperson that dumb kids think are their buddies just letting them know about “cool” products they just happened on.

[Shadow44]

Sometimes it can be. I have a nephew and when they first started talking about the Holocaust in Grade School, they showed them raw footage taken by the Army. I forget what grade he was in, but it was probably around 4th grade. He was deeply upset by the photographs and film as you can imagine. That’s the level of hamfistedness I’m talking about.

[Mouton]

Whenever I hear one of these young fools pontificating about “how hard they have it” I think you should just know what hard is. Most of my cohort families worked to just get by. No one got school loans. You stayed married, or got married, because you had kids and did not figure it was best for them to be supported by your former spouse or the state. When you got to 18 and male, you began thinking of what role you would have in the military as the draft was there to nudge you in that direction...it was not up to someone you did not know to risk their life and limb to keep you in your cocoon. We made our own fun and did not rely upon drugs to do it. Lastly, we respected our elders and our religious beliefs.

[Sgt_Schultze]

If you don't remember what happened, you risk a repeat.
A Taste of Armageddon - Star Trek

[dfwgator]

The only thing millennials know about Hitler is that Trump is a lot like him.

[dfwgator]