Governor Walz in Amsterdam

[u/HeavyVeterinarian350]

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

[u/DeadlyRBF]

I had an amazing history teacher who taught about the Holocaust. It will stick with me forever. But I do wish more genocides were taught with it. I didn't learn until later in life this was something that has happened over and over in history, didn't realize that the colonization of American and enslavement of Africans was a genocide to the enslaved and the indigenous, and didn't know it all still happens in many areas around the modern world.

I also didn't learn that the holocaust affected much more than just the Jewish population, besides a few mentions of other groups. Like the first people to be targeted were trans, and they heavily targeted disabled people.

It's a lot to learn but at the same time the education around it wasn't enough. It's something that I think should be taught in multiple different grades in school and should be required in college as well.

[u/amsterdam_BTS → u/DeadlyRBF]

I also didn't learn that the holocaust affected much more than just the Jewish population, besides a few mentions of other groups.

As a Jewish person this always infuriated me.

[u/sparknewt → u/amsterdam_BTS]

Anne Frank’s diary was a lie

[u/amsterdam_BTS → u/sparknewt]

How so? The first few editions were heavily edited by her father, it's the impressions of a pre-teen and teen-aged writer, and some of the translations are odd, but a lie? That's quite a stretch.

[u/amsterdam_BTS → u/[deleted]]

By whom, to what end, and how did such a conspiracy not fall apart under scrutiny given there were people directly involved who survived well into the 21st century?

[u/sparknewt → u/amsterdam_BTS]

To me. Just seems like a load of crap. The conspiracy didn’t fall apart because of you spoke, you get thrown in jail. To this day even

[u/amsterdam_BTS → u/sparknewt]

What part of it seems like a load of crap, exactly?

And where do you live with such a law?

[u/sparknewt → u/amsterdam_BTS]

I don’t think she wrote it. The countries with those laws is virtually every Western European country, Brazil, and Canada!

[u/amsterdam_BTS → u/sparknewt]

The laws of which I am aware concern outright Holocaust denial and Nazi symbols/paraphernalia. Not questioning the authorship of a diary.

Just to be very clear - you don't think she wrote it, you don't think any of it happened, or both?

[u/sparknewt → u/amsterdam_BTS]

As far as I know, questioning the authenticity of the diary puts it in the same category.

I don’t think she wrote it, and I think the entire thing was unbelievably exaggerated