This is very sad, kinda crazy that only 46% of the population even knows what auschwitz is, and 1/4 people think the holocaust is some conspiracy theory or something.
I will say this, we need to figure out how to teach about these atrocities better. My SO was never taught about slavery except in passing, my SO was never ever taught about the trail of tears and the native genocide. She was taught about the holocaust, but that actually pissed her off at the time because she thought "why do I have to learn about these people in Germany when my people were systematically enslaved and killed". And that's fair, but this contributes to interracial strife, which may be the point.
Thankfully I had a good history teacher in school who basically spent half the year on slavery and shows us pictures of the extreme brutality and taught us about the lies that the US government sold to black Americans about reparations after slavery. She also taught us about the trail of tears and the systematic genocide of indigenous Americans.
Without learning about this stuff, it sets children on a path towards reaction, and directly contributes to the above image.
we need to figure out how to teach about these atrocities better
We really, really do. Unfortunately the trend right now is to declare that anything that mentions America being bad as "critical race theory" and ban it from schools.
This is very sad, kinda crazy that only 46% of the population even knows what auschwitz is, and 1/4 people think the holocaust is some conspiracy theory or something.
I will say this, we need to figure out how to teach about these atrocities better. My SO was never taught about slavery except in passing, my SO was never ever taught about the trail of tears and the native genocide. She was taught about the holocaust, but that actually pissed her off at the time because she thought "why do I have to learn about these people in Germany when my people were systematically enslaved and killed". And that's fair, but this contributes to interracial strife, which may be the point.
Thankfully I had a good history teacher in school who basically spent half the year on slavery and shows us pictures of the extreme brutality and taught us about the lies that the US government sold to black Americans about reparations after slavery. She also taught us about the trail of tears and the systematic genocide of indigenous Americans.
Without learning about this stuff, it sets children on a path towards reaction, and directly contributes to the above image.
We really, really do. Unfortunately the trend right now is to declare that anything that mentions America being bad as "critical race theory" and ban it from schools.
Yeah, ultimately it's not that we don't know how to teach it, its just omitted from the curriculum for nationalistic reasons.