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What the hell is this about? How is it possible that so many Americans are so clueless of history? This is crazy.
1 posted on 09/16/2020 2:34:24 PM PDT by devane617
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One thing that we need to keep in mind is that for high school kids, WWII is as far back as the Spanish War was when I was in school.

I think that for adults, The Holocaust is such a part of our lives that it’s assumed everyone “just knows” about it.


33 posted on 09/16/2020 3:10:52 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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You want to see some really intelligent (dumbass) people on history, watch this: Liberty Hangout w/ Kaitlin Bennett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v66c-UHLMTw


35 posted on 09/16/2020 3:11:41 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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Probably even fewer folks know that only about half the folks killed in the Holocaust were Jewish.


38 posted on 09/16/2020 3:16:55 PM PDT by PAR35
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A few years ago, I visited the Statue of Liberty. In front of me in line as we waited for the boat, was a pleasant woman and we began talking. She told me she was a school teacher who taught American History. I asked her about the Korean War since we had discussed she teaches WW2. Her answer to me was “Well, remember I only teach American History.” That was an abbreviated version of the chat.


40 posted on 09/16/2020 3:20:51 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Pop culture, media and public education: the dumbing down of America)
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A lot of young people actually think the Holocaust is what the Israeli’s perpetrated on the Palestinians.

No joke that.


41 posted on 09/16/2020 3:21:34 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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Many of Florida’s young adults unaware that 6M Jews were killed in Holocaust

The Jews and Hitler and WWII, are some of the issues that the left wants school kids not to learn about.

When liberals run things, a lot of other issues will also not be taught or will be twisted to the point that, it's no longer an issue.

The issue that most kids and liberal don't understand or know nothing about, is socialism vs capitalism/free-market system. It's why so many HS graduates and college graduates are so inclined to support socialism and liberalism and democrats, and even communism.
42 posted on 09/16/2020 3:22:35 PM PDT by adorno
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They had time to learn that there are 57 genders and they know how to put a condom on a cucumber. But there was no class time to learn some history.


43 posted on 09/16/2020 3:23:52 PM PDT by Red Patriot in Blue California
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The holocaust is covered in public schools. Very much so. But for multiple reasons, kids aren’t retaining much these days and widespread innumeracy means that one big number sounds as good as the next so even those who remember the event might guess something that is far away from six million.


48 posted on 09/16/2020 3:31:37 PM PDT by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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Proof that beating people over the head non-stop for 80 years doesn’t work.


50 posted on 09/16/2020 3:41:33 PM PDT by The Toll
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What the hell is this about? How is it possible that so many Americans are so clueless of history? This is crazy.

Two words...... Public Education!

54 posted on 09/16/2020 4:11:40 PM PDT by Lockbox
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Utter failure of the K12 system, and if they went to college/uni, failure of upper education given most of them HAD TO TAKE a couple courses in world history.


56 posted on 09/16/2020 4:23:08 PM PDT by cranked
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Here's a link to the entire survey http://www.claimscon.org/millennial-study/

No really sure why Florida got singled out, since other states have similar or worse results.

61 posted on 09/16/2020 4:53:04 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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I’d bet even more don’t know they live on a peninsula.


62 posted on 09/16/2020 5:01:02 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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Many won’t know that 2/3rds of European Jewry were murdered by the Nazis

Many won’t know that 60% of European gypsies were murdered by the Nazis.


72 posted on 09/17/2020 12:35:55 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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No surprise. Most teachers were and are only teaching about how Republicans are evil and Orange Man Bad, fake Climate Change and whatever trendy Stalinazi garbage. Actual history ? Forget it.


73 posted on 09/17/2020 2:32:03 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Want Stalinazism More ? PLUGS-WHORE 2020 !)
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