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Title: SHOCK: District’s ‘critical thinking’ assignment led at least 50 students to conclude Holocaust never occurred
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URL Source: http://eagnews.org/shock-districts- ... lude-holocaust-never-occurred/
Published: Jul 15, 2014
Author: staff
Post Date: 2014-07-15 17:19:43 by Horse
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RIALTO, Calif. – An eighth-grade English assignment that was meant to develop students’ critical thinking skills has, instead, created some 50 new Holocaust deniers. In May, Rialto Unified School District leaders came under intense criticism after it was revealed the district’s roughly 2,000 eighth-grade students were given an in-class essay assignment in which they were asked to consider if the Holocaust was “an actual historical event” or if it might have been “a propaganda tool that was used for political and monetary gain.”concentration camp Students were directed to “research” the issue and take a position on it, supporting their conclusion with “textual evidence” – printouts of information culled from three websites, one of which was a Holocaust denial site. When news of the assignment broke, Rialto Unified school officials attempted to soothe angry community members by stating that none of the students actually argued that the Holocaust did not occur. But an investigation by Los Angeles Daily News proves otherwise. The Los Angeles Daily News asked for and received copies of the student essays, and had staff members read through them. The staffers found “at least 50 essays (that) denied or doubted the Holocaust occurred.” “Even many students who agreed the Holocaust occurred said there were good reasons to believe it had not or that elements of the historical record were actually hoaxes,” the Daily News reports. The paper provides several chilling excerpts. One student declared there was no way the Holocaust occurred because the Nazis “would have had to have killed 187 people an hour in order to kill 6 million people. Therefore it is impossible.” Another flatly asserted that the Holocaust is “a profitable hoax made by the Jews to obtain land, money and power.” One student concluded: “With the evidence that was given to me, it clearly was obvious” that the Holocaust never occurred “and I wouldn’t know why anyone would think otherwise.” Several students based their skepticism on arguments put forth by discredited Holocaust denier Fred A. Leuchter, who has argued the Nazis never used gas chambers to kill Jews. One student wrote that if the Nazis “would have even experimented these so called gas chambers the Nazis would have died also, so I do not believe in gas chambers.” Another made a similar argument: “if gassing would have occurred everyone (nearby) would have died, because the floors had cracks in the floor and holes in the wall.” Still another asserted “there is no significant cyanide traces in any of the alleged gas chambers. So any open minded person can easily be persuaded to believe that the gassings were a Hoax.” Some students even used the “evidence” provided by their teachers to declare that “The Diary of Anne Frank” – the first-hand account of Nazi atrocities that students had been assigned to read earlier – was a fraud. Perhaps the most troubling aspect of this assignment is that some Rialto teachers praised Holocaust denying students for their well-reasoned arguments, as determined by comments found on the student essays examined by Daily News staffers. “You did well using the evidence to support your claim,” one teacher wrote to a student who had concluded the Holocaust “was a fake” and a “hoax.” Even though it has now been exposed that several dozen Rialto students were turned into Holocaust deniers by this assignment, district officials are still refusing to identify the educators responsible for creating the lesson. Officials won’t even say whether or not the responsible parties have been – or will be – disciplined. Rialto Unified officials have apologized for the assignment and pledge that it won’t be used again. The southern California district also attempted to undo some of the damage by sending its eighth-graders to the Museum of Tolerance. But Neal Fialkow, a Pasadena attorney who has reviewed the students’ essays, is still troubled by the entire incident. “When you took a look at the way the assignment is created and written, it causes all of these impressionable children to start their essays with ‘in my opinion, the Holocaust did exist,’” Fialkow told the Daily News. “So it puts in the seed of doubt.”
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#1. To: Horse (#0)
Props to 50 discerning researchers - great job.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
And is this a bad thing? It's better that people never doubt certain things? Doubt is what creates honest & critical thinking. One who is afraid of planting "seeds of doubt" is one who wants to control the thinking of others.
Now that sounds like a great place to visit. It's a little too far for myself but if anyone is near Los Angeles, here's the address: Simon Wiesenthal Plaza, 9786 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035 Perhaps the remaining Palestinians should be provided a trip to "the Museum of Tolerance", I'm certain it would temper their attitude towards the Israelis. "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
Do they have dorm facilities for 50,000 spanish speaking infants?
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
If they did, the Jews would lock the place up before allowing such riff-raff in their holiest of holocaust sites. "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
We can find out if those gas chambers really work. BWAHAHAHA!!! Turtle bad. "Have Brain, Will Travel
LOL, let the excuses flow: 1) We are victims, just like the schwartzes - ok strike that It's all fun and games until your city becomes Detroit. corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
That's crazy, Turtle. There must be millions of square feet of housing available in places like New Square, NY. corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." Samuel Adams, (1722-1803)
Never once in the article was it mentioned that Jews complained about the assignment - - that has to be a giant lie in itself, because only Jews would complain - that is cleaver propaganda. Hmm - guess America must NEVER see an angry Jew condemning children, screaming about his victimhood. p.s. Jews crying victim while they are killing Palestians 180 to ZERO is not washing anymore. p.s. Watching 100% of our US media pumping Israeli victimhood is so telling. p.s. On The Five on Fox News yesterday they ran a Netanyahu victimization screed and agreed 100% with him --- then they unanimously decided that a war must be waged against Iran - what a$$holes. (what’s worse, they get paid to do this crap).
How does an infant speak Spanish? Never mind. I have the explanation for this whole invasion. When you have sex with a native Spanish-speaking gal, she doesn't quite say "Oh!" What she says sounds instead almost like "Oy!" A rainbow coalition against Jews doesn't require Whites or Pro-Whites. It can be just as brown or anti-white as you like.
To nip those seeds before they sprout the "documentary" industry has been harnessed once again to dredge up the most discredited myths of holoco$tery, viz. National Geographic: Human Skin Lampshades. I saw this the other day. The viewer is subjected to 45 min of the usual emotionally charged nazi era rubbish only to learn two and a half minutes from the end that a lampshade claimed to be made out of human skin, found at a sidewalk rummage sale in New Orleans and said to have originated in a WWII concentration camp, is made of cow hide. The film is based on "The Lampshade: A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans . . . a 2010 nonfiction book by U.S. author Mark Jacobson.[1] It recounts the attempt to ascertain the origin of a lampshade claimed to be made out of human skin." Postby Charles Traynor » Sat Feb 23, 2013 2:50 pm National Geographic Channel has released yet another sensationalist holocaust documentary. This time the subject is human skin lampshades. The generally accepted historical view on this topic is that no human skin lampshades were ever made by the Germans during WWII. The truth of course has never deterred National Geographic from creating and screening racist anti- German propaganda films. Nat Geo Description: “ “It was one of the grisliest finds of the Second World War: a lampshade uncovered at the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp, supposedly made from human skin. “ With help from forensic specialists, DNA experts and microscopic metallurgists, Nazi Trophy Mystery follows Jewish journalist Mark Jacobson’s quest for the truth which takes him on an emotional journey into the black heart of Nazi German.” The target audience for this nonsense is, as usual, the ignorant and uninformed masses of couch potatoes who “learn” history by watching television. The blatant dishonesty of this production can be easily deduced from its presupposition that human skin lampshades were actually made at Buchenwald. This type of hate propaganda is not only harmful to Germans. Jews too are emotionally damaged by these lies as we clearly saw when Mr. Jacobson broke down after learning his beloved lampshade was actually made of cow hide rather than a murdered coreligionist Jew. The presence of a known liar and holohoax promoter like Michael Berenbaum acting as an intellectual and moral authority on the subject did nothing to enhance the integrity or impartiality of this documentary. "You know what you know, right. You know it’s a cow but it’s not a cow. (sob) It’s an object that exists in the world to tell you a tale. ...Whatever the haters are gonna say. I say to them that they don’t know what they’re talking about.” http://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7663 There is no end to this shit. "If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan
LOL Gee, I wonder. Public officials that don't toe the Zio line don't have a good track record of long-term ZOG employment.
Now that sounds like a great place to visit. It's a little too far for myself but if anyone is near Los Angeles, here's the address: Simon Wiesenthal Plaza, 9786 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035 Sounds like something out of Orwell's 1984. I wonder if the 1st Amendment is written over the door as one enters. /s
He suggested that instructors be re-educated about the Holocaust and that mandatory annual visits be made to the museum. He offered to work with the district to develop detailed learning plans. "There is something broken that's got to be fixed," he said. Community members expressed anger about the district's handling of the incident, calling for immediate action. www.latimes.com/local/la-...ialto-20140508-story.html More: "From the bottom of my heart, I feel sorry for this whole thing happening," said interim Supt. Mohammad Z. Islam, adding that he accepted full responsibility for the incident. What a lesson for these kids: in the land of the free, you can think critically about anything, except one thing.
I'm very surprised such an assignment was allowed to begin with. I was under the impression that everything taught in public education is highly controlled.
I think you could be on to something there. The identity of those responsible for the curriculum isn't obvious to me from the articles I've read. Could they have been... no, it's unthinkable.
#2. To: Horse (#0)
“So it puts in the seed of doubt.”
#3. To: Horse (#0)
...the Museum of Tolerance.
#4. To: Southern Style (#3)
#5. To: Dakmar (#4)
Do they have dorm facilities for 50,000 spanish speaking infants?
#6. To: Dakmar (#4)
Do they have dorm facilities for 50,000 spanish speaking infants?
#7. To: Southern Style (#5)
(Edited)
2) Every culture need their own space to flourish, except YT - Strike II
3) The goyim will be enriched, we wouldn't be - Strike III?
#8. To: Turtle (#6)
We can find out if those gas chambers really work
#9. To: Horse (#0)
(Edited)
#10. To: Horse (#0)
#11. To: Dakmar (#4)
Do they have dorm facilities for 50,000 spanish speaking infants?
#12. To: Horse (#0)
“So it puts in the seed of doubt.”
National Geographic: Human Skin Lampshades
#13. To: Horse (#0)
Officials won’t even say whether or not the responsible parties have been – or will be – disciplined.
#14. To: Southern Style (#3)
"...the Museum of Tolerance."
#15. To: Horse, randge (#0)
Speaking to school officials at the meeting Wednesday, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, said he hoped that no one in the district still believes the assignment served to develop critical thinking.
#16. To: Horse (#0)
#17. To: Diana (#16)
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