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Two Minnesota high school students were criticized for sharing a video titled Me and the boys on the way to camp, which photoshops them dancing in a Nazi boxcar and happily skipping into Auschwitz, on the video social media platform TikTok.
The video contains humorous music whose lyrics include Tell everybody Im on my way.
In response, the two boys shown in the video posted by a high school student from Nicollet High School in Nicollet, Minnesota were assigned a research paper titled Hitlers Final Solution at Auschwitz.
Steve Hunegs, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas, said in a statement that he is increasingly concerned about a grave empathy deficit, which enables students and others to weaponize their knowledge about the Holocaust to insult the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, and further traumatize Jews at a time when we are experiencing a demonstrative increase in anti-Semitism.
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They will write a research paper on Auschwitz as punishment. Yeah, that'll do it. For fuck's sake, just register them as republicans and give them a tiki torch and MAGA hat!
whathehell
(29,037 posts)Their parents should have been called in and they certainly should be getting more punishment than a freaking research paper.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,852 posts)I no longer assume that everyone knows about the Holocaust.
I took a girl on a first-date to see Schindlers List, which was recently released at that time, among other things.
As we walked out of the cinema, she made the comment that it was the worst movie she ever saw. Why would anyone even write such a story?!, she asked.
I replied that it wasnt just a story, but it was based on actual events in Europe under the Nazis.
She then said, You mean that stuff actually happened?! As I gave her a brief history lesson, which she SOMEHOW never learned despite graduating from high school, she cried and cried. So at least she wasnt a monster.
We didnt have a 2nd date, btw.
Edit: At a restaurant, she revealed that she was raised in a fundamentalist Christian household.
LuvLoogie
(6,936 posts)Schindler's List on a first date?
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,852 posts)She didnt express a preference for anything.
I warned her it would be disturbing, but it was the only movie showing in that cinema that got good reviews, so how about it? She then agreed to see it.
She probably expected a regular horror film, involving supernatural crap or whatever. I dont really know what she expected, but her ignorance about the subject blew my mind.
mercuryblues
(14,525 posts)You were easily able to move on after 1 date. What if you had made it to the 20th date and found this out?
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,852 posts)She was a young coworker of my mother, so I didnt know much about her except she was sweet according to Mom. (That was probably true, but she was very poorly educated.)
I asked her on a date after Mom told me that she wondered who was the cute guy that had just visited her at work. So it was pretty much a blind date, except I thought she was cute too. (Mom described who made that comment about me, and I realized that I had noticed her too.)
mercuryblues
(14,525 posts)My last bling date almost 30 years ago. I married him.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,852 posts)I might have been able to deal with her ignorance, because she at least seemed sweet like my mother claimed, but shes the one who said that we shouldnt date again.
That movie was the finale of our hours-long realization of our different worlds. Lol.
Maybe I broadened her horizons just slightly? I suspect that her parents had sheltered her a lot, but they probably didnt promote mean thoughts like some evangelicals.
Edit: She probably didnt like how I kept expressing shock over her not knowing anything about the Nazis, the Holocaust, etc. I wasnt denigrating her, and I tried to be polite about it. Yet expressions of surprise kept pouring out of my mouth during the drive back from the cinema.
LuvLoogie
(6,936 posts)I don't mean that negatively. She was clearly moved, which confirmed her sweetness. As you suggest, part of it may have been her ignorance that anybody could do that to another human being--and then have that history presented so graphically and artfully. She may also have had limited knowledge of our own nation's history with regards to man's inhumanity to man.
While she may have been taken aback by your reaction, you were on a date, not a diplomatic mission. You were both being yourselves and, in your short story, I sensed kindness from the both of you.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)😳🤯 🤬
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)samnsara
(17,606 posts)..they are no longer 'high school boys'..
Chainfire
(17,474 posts)It is amazing to me that some people can learn to be so hateful so young. Of course, most of the Nazis who carried out the mechanics of the final solution were barely out of their teens.
Jersey Devil
(9,874 posts)They need to be educated. A few years ago my wife and I stopped off in DC to see the Holocaust Museum for the first time. The room with all the shoes still gives me the shivers whenever I think about it. Something like that, maybe reading Ann Frank's Diary, to educate them.
DFW
(54,302 posts)They probably have never been outside their bubble, definitely never been to the Holocaust museum in DC, or any place like it.
Here in my suburb of Düsseldorf, my girls went to the Anne Frank Schule for 1st thru 4th grade, and they learned all about her life, and why the Nazis were so evil. It left a lifetime impression. The younger one's class, if you include sections a, b, and c, had kids of 27 different nationalities, including immigrants and children of refugees. As a final measure, the school was deliberately located in the building that used to be the local Gestapo headquarters during the war. THAT is how you ensure a paucity of right-wing radicals in the next generation.
Denying they aren't there doesn't work. The "socialist" East Germany, while it existed, simply declared "we're all good socialists now, no Nazis here!" and so never confronted its Nazi past as the west did. Sure enough, when the wall came down, where was the biggest concentration of neo-Nazi sentiment? In the supposedly "Nazi-free" east, of course. Suppressing it doesn't work. Only confrontation and education will work.
Behind the Aegis
(53,921 posts)BSdetect
(8,995 posts)spanone
(135,795 posts)What is wrong with people?
Aristus
(66,294 posts)We know who you are and what you look like. Get used to disapproving stares from HR managers for the rest of your lives.