Kraichgauer
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17 Oct 2021, 3:31 am
Pepe wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Pepe wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
Pepe wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
This is the repercussion of the current pogrom against teaching critical race theory.
It's not rocket science. Educators have known for a couple of hundred years that filling kids heads with details doesn't make their child skilled, It's the ability to impart critical thinking. Employers want graduates who can solve problems and think outside the square. They want critical thinkers not homogenous clones who are full of information but don't know how to use it. This means teaching children critical thinking about why things like the holocaust happens is important, Opposing views teach children to bend the truth. That doesn't help their education.
So when politically infused doctrine contaminates the education system you get a form of book burning where some information is deemed innapropriate.
It's not rocket science. Educators have known for a couple of hundred years that filling kids heads with details doesn't make their child skilled, It's the ability to impart critical thinking. Employers want graduates who can solve problems and think outside the square. They want critical thinkers not homogenous clones who are full of information but don't know how to use it. This means teaching children critical thinking about why things like the holocaust happens is important, Opposing views teach children to bend the truth. That doesn't help their education.
So when politically infused doctrine contaminates the education system you get a form of book burning where some information is deemed innapropriate.
You do see the irony here, right?
Yes there is some irony there. But the question posed is what alternative narratives are there to explain the holocaust?
I have read where the cause of many of the deaths in the concentration camps was due to disease, as an example of what people don't want to hear.
Another observation was the food supply shortage causing deaths, as a result of allied bombing and simply the effects of war.
People don't want to hear that either, so it seems.
Also, doing simple maths suggests the story is more complicated than stated.
As I said, critical thinking is unwanted on this emotionally sensitive topic.
Understanding human psychology creates the formation of questions that most want to howl down.
I remember trying to approach this topic about 7 years ago, on WP.
The lack of sophistication I encountered at that time was frightening.
I wasn't expecting that on an autistic website.
I know better these days.
Yes, I've read and heard those very same things about disease and lack of food having been the cause of many deaths. That said, none of that would have happened had those people not been incarcerated in those camps in the first place.
You are missing the point, my friend.
Then what is the point?
17 Oct 2021, 3:33 pm
naturalplastic wrote:
Pepe wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
This person proposing this doesnt state what the phrase "alternate opinions" means.
Do they mean "the opinion" that the Holocaust didnt happen?
Or the opinon that it did happen, but that it was ok?
Either thing would be outrageous.
Do they mean "the opinion" that the Holocaust didnt happen?
Or the opinon that it did happen, but that it was ok?
Either thing would be outrageous.
The first step is to find out what they do mean by that statement.
Seriously, it is not rocket surgery.
Seriously.
Seriously.
And one more time, seriously.
I skipped the whole thread- just to ask the question "what was their point?".
So -since you didnt answer my question- you apparently dont know either.
No one seems to know.
*That* is precisely my point.
People are virtue-signalling about something they don't even know about.
It is intellectually embarrassing.
But typically human.
Thankfully, I am a skunk and can transcend the nonsense.
