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THE INCREDIBLY DEPRESSING ANSWERS COLLEGE STUDENTS GAVE WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST
The Blaze ^

Posted on 10/18/2013 5:21:46 AM PDT by bryan999

A Pennsylvania woman set out with a video camera to learn what college students in her state know about the Holocaust — and discovered an incredible lack of knowledge not only of the genocide of the Jews, but of basic facts about U.S. history and World War II.

Rhonda Fink-Whitman visited college campuses in Pennsylvania this fall, including the venerated Ivy League institution the University of Pennsylvania, where she was repeatedly faced with a remarkable ignorance about events that took place in the last century.

Students didn’t know where Normandy was, why U.S. forces landed there, why the U.S. even entered the war or who was president at the time. (Wilson, Eisenhower and JFK were among the guesses.) One student didn’t know who Anne Frank was, because he said he never read the book.

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


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KEYWORDS: academicbias; andtheyvote; dumbingdown; holocaust; idocracy; kollege
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1 posted on 10/18/2013 5:21:46 AM PDT by bryan999
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I bet they could ace a test on how to get a free abortion or why Alternative Gender Studies is a necessary course for today’s students.


2 posted on 10/18/2013 5:27:27 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: bryan999

Yet conservatives are considered to be ignorant and uneducated.


3 posted on 10/18/2013 5:27:34 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: bryan999

Most or all of those kids went to public school. People who care for their children as other than fashion accessories will keep them out of public school. There are no exceptions to that, not any more.


4 posted on 10/18/2013 5:27:46 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: bryan999
NEVER AGAIN!...

(will kids hear about it)

5 posted on 10/18/2013 5:29:10 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The "government" is nothing but a RAT jobs program)
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To: bryan999
For several years the Intercollegiate Studies Institute gave a civics quiz on campuses around the country. Students in the Ivy league saw their scores, never high, decrease from freshman to senior years. Yes, they actually got dumber as time in classes at places like Penn increased.
6 posted on 10/18/2013 5:29:33 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Any detailed study of Nazi Germany would destroy the progressive propaganda.


7 posted on 10/18/2013 5:31:37 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: bryan999

I think we have some work to do.


8 posted on 10/18/2013 5:32:05 AM PDT by FreeperCell
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"Oh my God, I know the answer but I don’t know how to explain it.”

I need to feel good about myself. I just know I'm smart. I just know I'm a good person. I need to constantly maintain a positive self-image. Now, mind you, I have absolutely nothing to back up any of this -- but I'm not sure that matters ... I mean, I voted for Obama, so, like, obviously I'm really smart, and really a good person, so ...

9 posted on 10/18/2013 5:33:40 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (21st century. I'm not a fan.)
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To: arthurus

Ignorance comes from government education.

I have 8 grandchildren and they are all homeschooled.

They know history, music, mathematics, science, geography, languages and good manners.

Parents who send their children to government schools are diminishing their knowledge of the world and their ability to cope in it.


10 posted on 10/18/2013 5:34:14 AM PDT by Oak Grove (H)
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To: ArtDodger

They can explain to you why the ban on gay marriage is worse than the Holocaust.


11 posted on 10/18/2013 5:34:59 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: FreeperCell

Middle and high school aged kids should be made to watch this.

Third Reich - The Rise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KG74s4DnRw


12 posted on 10/18/2013 5:35:15 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: bryan999

Idiocracy isn’t a thing of the future or of movies, its here today.

As one of the comments noted it could happen again, here. Its quite believable too.


13 posted on 10/18/2013 5:35:49 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: cripplecreek

They don’t teach history or geography anymore. It is a watered down sociology and demographics class that talk about how much other cultures have contributed to the earth while glossing over America.


14 posted on 10/18/2013 5:36:07 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yeah...nice try, but you only used the word “like” one time.


15 posted on 10/18/2013 5:37:40 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The "government" is nothing but a RAT jobs program)
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To: bryan999

And the sad thing is their teachers would not do any better.


16 posted on 10/18/2013 5:37:44 AM PDT by ProudFossil (" I never did give anyone hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." Harry Truman)
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To: bryan999
When I had US history way back in 1981, a short film on the Holocaust was presented out-of-context and without comment on the second-to-last day of school, after finals. Some of the kids in my class had heard of it, and a few of us were history nerds that were already annoyed that the curriculum omitted any instruction about World War 1 or World War 2, other than to note that large numbers of women entered the work force during WWII.

So it doesn't surprise me that they avoid teaching it now.

17 posted on 10/18/2013 5:39:34 AM PDT by jboot (Ask me again after the revolution.)
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To: bryan999

I wonder if Fink-Whitman sees abortion as genocide...would be interesting to note since shes all about educating us and future generations so we can’t let denial creep in.


18 posted on 10/18/2013 5:40:14 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: Oak Grove

“Parents who send their children to government schools are diminishing their knowledge of the world”

but but but they are more worldly: they know the maximum sensitivity condom available, where and how to find cheap or inexpensive birth control pills, believe fag sex is OK, speak of affirmative action as a good thing, believe Marxism is either a great economic system or developed by the Marx brothers, and know there is no God because they cannot see him.


19 posted on 10/18/2013 5:42:25 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: bryan999

The problem with videos like this is you have no idea just how many people she asked who knew the right answer. Were the historical morons the exception or the rule?


20 posted on 10/18/2013 5:43:32 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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