One in five young Americans think the Holocaust is a myth
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#5And it's likely [1]...
- 1 in 5 believe the earth is flat.
- 2 in 7 believe in the Easter Bunny.
- 4 in 10 don't know that 4 of 10 is 40%
- 3 in 8 have never left their own state.
- 7 in 10 want to grow up to be online "influencers".
- And so on...
The point is, if you're looking for a factual but clickbait-ready headline just survey young Anericans. Why is The Economist dabbling is such LCD "journalism"?
[1] These aren't factual. They're fictional and for effect.
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#7And it's likely [1]... - 1 in 5 believe the earth is flat. - 2 in 7 believe in the Easter Bunny. - 4 in 10 don't know that 4 of 10 is 40% - 3 in 8 have never left their own state. - 7 in 10 want to grow up to be online "influencers". - And so on... The point is, if you're looking for a factual but clickbait-ready headline just survey young Anericans. Why is The Economist dabbling is such LCD "journalism"? [1] These a…
So it's not a matter of 'they are nazis' but more of an indictment of the american educational system?
Also... yes not much journalism happening in the USA these days.
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#8What fraction of young Americans could even vaguely describe Joseph Stalin's 3-decade reign of terror (1922-1952), let alone have a sense of how many millions he killed? Or the Romani Holocaust? Or the horrors of King Leopold II's so-called Congo Free State? Or ...
(Yes, it's interesting that the article calls the Holocaust "one of modern history’s greatest crimes" - but gives zero words to any of the others. And there's no hint that the poll asked about any of the others.)
If your knowledge of history is pretty minimal, but you keep seeing "Because Holocaust!" used as some kinda magical rhetorical/moral trump card...then having serious doubts about that "Holocaust" thing is fairly reasonable, AS AN UNINFORMED EMOTIONAL REACTION. [Please re-read the shouty part there 3 times, before you angrily respond.]
Vs. if you do know the history - the Holocaust's "special cultural/moral status" still really sticks out. My pet theory is that, from the PoV of well-educated, middle- and upper-class western whites, the Jewish Holocaust victims "look" like just-one-thing-different-from-me analogs. Vs. the poor Slavs, Romani, Black, etc. victims do not - so killing "their kind" in 7-or-so-digit quantities just doesn't push the same deep emotional buttons.
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#9And it's likely [1]... - 1 in 5 believe the earth is flat. - 2 in 7 believe in the Easter Bunny. - 4 in 10 don't know that 4 of 10 is 40% - 3 in 8 have never left their own state. - 7 in 10 want to grow up to be online "influencers". - And so on... The point is, if you're looking for a factual but clickbait-ready headline just survey young Anericans. Why is The Economist dabbling is such LCD "journalism"? [1] These a…
So it's not a matter of 'they are nazis' but more of an indictment of the american educational system? Also... yes not much journalism happening in the USA these days.
It's both. The normalization of anti-semitic conspiracy theory and neo-nazi ideology though internet culture and mainstream politics is a big reason Holocaust denial has become so common - and that is a result of, among other things, the failure of the American education system and culture.
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So it's not a matter of 'they are nazis' but more of an indictment of the american educational system? Also... yes not much journalism happening in the USA these days.
It's both. The normalization of anti-semitic conspiracy theory and neo-nazi ideology though internet culture and mainstream politics is a big reason Holocaust denial has become so common - and that is a result of, among other things, the failure of the American education system and culture.
the American education system is being replaced by social media. all that's left is the american babysitter system.