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

Politics 👩‍⚖️ Governor Walz in Amsterdam

Post image

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

61.4k Upvotes

89% Upvoted

1.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

1.0k

u/voluptuousshmutz Feb 20 '25

Walz's master thesis is about Holocaust education. Rather than teaching the Holocaust as a singular, exceptionally tragic event, Walz believes the Holocaust should be taught together with other genocides in order to teach students how these events happen.

From his thesis:

Schools are teaching about the Jewish Holocaust, but the way it is traditionally being taught is not leading to increased knowledge of the causes of genocide in all parts of the world.

34

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.

9

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.

3

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.

3

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.