{"id":75398,"date":"2020-09-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75398"},"modified":"2022-11-11T11:19:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T17:19:19","slug":"he-she-whatever-who-forgets-history-is-susceptible-to-democrat-drivel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75398","title":{"rendered":"He\/She\/Whatever Who Forgets History Is Susceptible To Democrat Drivel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s possible that the collapse of public education isn&#8217;t a plot to make society dumber and more susceptible to totalitarian meddling.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it&#8217;s hard to figure <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/16\/survey-shows-young-new-yorkers-lack-of-holocaust-knowledge\/\">how they&#8217;d do a better job of it if they <em>were <\/em>trying<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Nearly 20 percent of millennials and Gen Z in New York believe Jews caused the Holocaust, according to a new survey released Wednesday.<\/p><p>The findings come from the first-ever 50-state survey on the Holocaust knowledge of American millennials and Gen Z, which was commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.<\/p><p>For instance, although there were more than 40,000 camps and ghettos during World War II, 58 percent of respondents in New York cannot name a single one.<\/p><p>Additionally, 60 percent of respondents in New York do not know that 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It was my observation when my kids were in school &#8211; over a decade ago, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"30\">Saint Paul Public Schools<\/a> &#8211; that the <em>only <\/em>things they learned in their various social studies classes were slavery and civil rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No &#8220;Federalist Papers&#8221; or origins of the Constitution.  Nothing about the Civil War <em>but <\/em>slavery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing about the rise of progressivism, the causes of the Depression, World War II. Nothing about the sixties but Civil Rights.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again &#8211; that was anecdotal, and entirely possibly wrong.   But I&#8217;ve found little reason to <em>not <\/em>assume I&#8217;m at least largely right on this.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this article is certainly a plaintiff&#8217;s exhibit. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s possible that the collapse of public education isn&#8217;t a plot to make society dumber and more susceptible to totalitarian meddling. But it&#8217;s hard to figure how they&#8217;d do a better job of it if they were trying: Nearly 20 percent of millennials and Gen Z in New York believe Jews caused the Holocaust, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,453,24,10,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-education","category-ch-ch-changes-generational-politics","category-culture-war","category-education","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75399,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75398\/revisions\/75399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}