Fairfax Schools To Let Students Opt Out Of Holocaust Lesson, Citing Students With ‘Different Experiences’

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• breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did no one read the article?

  skip a presentation from a Holocaust survivor

  its not a class, or a lesson.

  Rephrase it to

  “Let students skip a presentation on transgender rights”, I am sure conservatives wouldn’t have a problem.

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  • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Rolling out the strawman I see. At no point was my comment about holocaust denial.

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    • AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No one’s trying to deny the Holocaust here. What the fuck are you even on about?

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• PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The opt-out of the Holocaust lesson in FCPS, whose school board is entirely Democrat, is a reversal from the Left’s position on opt-outs on topics like transgenderism and anti-racism, which typically holds that hard truths are often uncomfortable, that it is the role of a school to instill certain values, and that on some issues, there are not two sides, but only good and evil.

  “When a parent chooses to censor a lesson over its content, their child loses the opportunity to engage with a different perspective. This robs the child of the benefits to critical thinking, social development, and civic engagement that come from grappling with diverse perspectives. In engaging with difference, we promote the type of informed thinking that forms the bedrock of democracy. In avoiding difference, we stifle it,” an education researcher wrote in Time Magazine, layout out the dominant view of Democrat politicos, who have sought to prevent parents from opting their students out as schools have increasingly pushed Democrat politics under the guise of diversity and inclusion, social emotional learning, sed ed, and other topics.

  Idk wtf “sed ed”, but this is rich.

  What they fail to mention is that the Daily Wire is advocating for the reversal of the Right’s position on opt-outs on topics like transgenderism and anti-racism, which typically holds that these aren’t truths, the school does not and should not have a role in instilling democratic pluralistic values, and that on some issues, kids would be better off ignorant.

  And now, when it comes to the Holocaust, they want to mandate it? Lol, no. You made your flea-infested bed on the pillar of parental rights. Now sleep in it.

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  • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes. The holocaust should be mandated. People need to hear what democrat ideology has done to the world. Be it holding people in slavery or giving the Nazis the the ideology for the holocaust.

    history.com/…/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-jim-…

    Now many democrats deny the holocaust.

    So yes. They need to listen to what their ideology does to people.

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    • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s the Republicans that have elevated Holocaust denying white supremacists to national offices and mainstreamed their views.

      No matter what D’Souza and Levin say (and do so without any real evidence), the Republican party is that of anti-Semitism. In contrast, the sizable segment of the Democrat party that cares for the 30K+ lives lost to Israel’s genocide does mean we hate Jews. In fact, maybe Israel should attend the Holocaust lesson…

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    • magnusrufus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You are a remarkably consistently dishonest person. You are trying the old trick of carefully selecting to say Democrat in historical reference but avoiding mentioning that in that historical context the Democrats used to be conservatives. The ideology that you are using as the spring board to denounce modern progressive Democrats is conservativism, the ideology that Republicans currently embody.

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• wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think one issue is there are not really any survivors left anymore. When I was a kid, they brought survivors into school and they talked about it. I doubt there are any survivors left anymore.

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