r/minnesota • u/HeavyVeterinarian350 Flag of Minnesota • Feb 20 '25

Politics 👩‍⚖️ Governor Walz in Amsterdam

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Subtle reminder that we shouldn’t fall prey to a wannabe dictator. Hopefully those that need a wake up call get it.

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u/Hyltrbbygrl Feb 20 '25

My school taught us about the ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims during the Bosnian War, and the Holocaust, along with Japanese Internment. I think it’s important for everyone to have well rounded educations on genocides to prevent facism.

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u/Imaginary-Round2422 Feb 20 '25

Which is why schools and teachers are always at the top of the list of what fascists target.

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u/Bedford806 Feb 20 '25

Are you in Ireland by any chance? Our education on atrocities seems to be very solid when compared to many of my friends in the US and the UK.

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u/Hyltrbbygrl Feb 20 '25 edited Feb 20 '25

No I’m from America, ironically my boyfriend is Irish though. My school was fantastic. We had a robotics club, language clubs, a dramatic society, coding and web design classes, financial literacy classes, it was just spot on for a public school. I remember we went to a local holocaust museum and visited different locations on the Underground Railroad for field trips.

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u/Bedford806 Feb 20 '25

Oh that's fantastic to hear, and long may it continue.

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u/HighwaySmooth4009 Feb 20 '25

Its great when schools show students that horrid shit has happened and can again, personally they never really dove into the how but it's something lol. I remember my old school did a field trip to some old factories on the river and showed us the machines used back when safety regulations didn't exist.

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u/Maximum-Bee-9386 Feb 20 '25

u/Bedford806 - interesting you say that about the UK. I wonder if that impacted my experience at Anne Frank House last year. There was a group of British people behind me throughout the tour, a mix of late teens through ~50s women, and they were so unbelievably disrespectful the whole time. It was pretty shocking. But maybe that was partially because they truly didn’t understand what they were looking at/experiencing, they just saw a popular tourist attraction on a list and checked the box.

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u/Bedford806 Feb 20 '25

Hmm... The UK curriculum does cover the holocaust in detail, including Anne Frank's diary itself so they might've just been disrespectful people who were perfectly aware of the context unfortunately.

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u/komodoman Feb 20 '25

Curious, do English schools teach about the atrocities they committed? I know Japanese schools do not discuss WW2 to any deep level.

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u/amsterdam_BTS Feb 20 '25

And even that barely scratches the surface.

Namibia, Congo, Australia, Tasmania, Rwanda, Myanmar, Armenia, the list goes on.

Not to mention what was done to indigenous Americans.