Should the Holocaust be removed from the school curriculum because it offends people?
Some people don't believe that the Holocaust ever happened. The Politically Correct thing to do would be to not offend them and remove the Holocaust from the school curriculum. Or we can ask ourselves, "How long before people claim that 9/11 never happened and they are offended by any and all reference to it and that they want it removed from the school curriculum?"
Pros: If we remove offensive history from the school curriculum, those people will no longer be offended.
Cons: If we remove offensive history from the school curriculum, we risk repating that tragic history.
It's the PC thing to do
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Screw them
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This reminds me of an episode of 7th Heaven? Were you watching it today? haha. Anyway, no, it shouldn't be removed. Like I said in another debate (and people thought I was wrong, but they're dumb), everyone gets offended. If we remove everything in this world that offends, we'd probably have nothing left. Nothing fun anyway. Plus, how can anyone be offended by the Holocaust? Is their great grandpa Hitler or something? That's rather be embarrassing or even prideful (depending how they portray it). But yea, screw them. Side: Screw them
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We have to continue to teach about the holocaust in history classes. To fail to tell the next generation about history's atrocities is to, like you said, risk repeating them. Also, it is horribly disrespectful to the memories of holocaust victims to just say, "Oh, we don't want to offend people, so we'll ignore the fact that 6 million people died horrible deaths." Has anyone actually suggested that we remove the holocaust from curriculum? Side: Screw them
while I'm against pc police, I don't think it's fair to shift the blame onto them for wanting to censor the holocaust. they are for censorship when it comes to "curse" words, naked people, and anything that isn't based on the bible. of course it should not be censored. no realistic person thinks it should and someone somewhere, I'm guessing faux? is creating a false dilemma, much like the "war on christmas" anyway, instead of arguing this silly debate, I'm going to pick apart your ridiculous reasoning your reasoning "because then how long will it be before they take 911 out of..." blah blah blah, is mental. 5.1 million Jews died in the Holocaust. 2966 people died on 911 that's 5,100,000 vs 2,966 so that the holocaust shouldn't be remembered "because of 911" is kind of ridiculous don't you think? 911 is like a trip to disneyland in comparison. Side: Screw them
you seem to have a real problem with what the Project for Excellence in Journalism calls the most fair and balanced cable news network. i've never heard Fox talk about this... ever. why automatically blame them? Hitler didn't attack us on American soil. al-Qaeda not only attacked us on American soil, but also constantly commit genocide. the only difference is that it's been happening for so long that people seem to not hate it as much (like how Stalin and Mao have killed many more people than Hitler). and why not create a debate? There are people who believe that the holocaust never happened... instead of letting them attract other skeptics, why not nail them to the floor with facts? and the ACLU suing anyone who puts up Merry Christmas in the public sector and demanding that Wal-Mart says Seasons Greetings instead and that the Airport must put up EVERY religious symbol... does sound pretty fucked up. These people should be exploited for attacking Christmas... right? Side: Screw them
1. I'm assuming he heard it on faux, because I heard it on faux like two months ago when that Iranian President was making all that noise about the holocaust not happening. Faux hosts were trying vainly to somehow lump liberals in with holocaust denyers, which is what they do, they lump liberals in with anything negative they can find, warranted or not. 2. Hawaii was American soil, and we didn't join WWII until we were attacked on American soil. You know this, don't try to argue the semantics of which country it was, it was the same enemy. 3. Are you trying to imply Al-Qaeda is as dangerous as Germany? Really? 4. The private sector should be able to put up whatever they want, the public sector should not be allowed to favor one religion over another. Regardless of their stance on this issue, the ACLU is definitely not responsible for denying the holocaust, which is what joe attempts to imply. And do you have a link to where Project for Excellence in Journalism said this of Faux? Because everything I found by PEJ about Faux said, rightly so, that they are incredibly biased. Here's one of many quotes: In some ways, Fox is more a throwback than an innovation, bringing to mind the partisan press of the late 19th century. Fox may call itself "fair and balanced," but it's not hard to find a conservative tilt to what detractors call "Faux" News. A report on the congressional page scandal carried this on-screen banner: "GOP fighting back against Foley scandal hysteria," while disgraced Republican congressman Mark Foley was misidentified more than once as "D-FL." Side: It's the PC thing to do
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SCREW THEM...says this German-Italian-American Democrat!!! We must never forget what happened during a time in history when the world went mad because of the hatred of one man. Ask again...what can one man do? He can start from a simple sentence, at the right time and in the right place and create a juggernaut that sent the world reeling from its aftermath. That's what one man can do. Teach it and remember it for it shall never happen again lest we all suffer the same fate. Side: Screw them
uhm, no. if we dont teach people about the horrible things that have happened in our history, or that other people are capable of, then we might as well just die. we need to remember that things like this have happend. if people are offended, they need to get over it. yes, it was a horrible thing, that is why people need to know about it. Side: Screw them
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