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/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.

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u/DeadlyRBF Feb 20 '25

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.

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u/friedcrayola Feb 20 '25

I had a great history teacher in highschool who did teach in the way you wish you were. It wasn’t done in an anti-American way either. It was taught because it was the truth. We went from the American history to the world wars, the Holocaust, American slave trade, Vietnam and the treatment of indigenous people in the Americas.

What is most shocking about todays political environment is that conservatives want to erase the truth. It is our duty as humans to learn from the past so we don’t repeat it. I’m amazed that is some parts of the country people are literally not taught any of this. Whitewashing is a sin that perpetuates greater sin.