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Instagram influencer, 22, claims learning about WWII would hit millennials' mental health [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | November 1, 2019 | Sebastian Murphy-Bates and Mark Duell

Posted on 11/01/2019 6:25:47 AM PDT by C19fan

An Instagram influencer, 22, claims that learning about World War Two will hit millennials' mental health after Apprentice stars revealed that they didn't know the dates of a conflict that claimed 80 million lives.

Reality TV star Freddie Bentley told Good Morning Britain today that he thinks schools should trim back what they teach on the topic.

'It was a hard situation, World War Two, I don't want anyone to think I'm being disrespectful,' he said, but added: 'I remember learning it as a child thinking "Oh my God it's so intense".'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: education
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I was always under the impression Brits were more knowledgeable on history than us Yanks. Perhaps I was wrong or British education has degraded to US levels.
1 posted on 11/01/2019 6:25:47 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Extreme snowflakery.


2 posted on 11/01/2019 6:26:52 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: C19fan

What in the world is an “instagram influencer”?


3 posted on 11/01/2019 6:27:00 AM PDT by ealgeone
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For some reason, Millenials and Generation Zers follow certain people on social media.


4 posted on 11/01/2019 6:27:37 AM PDT by C19fan
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I was always under the impression Brits were more knowledgeable on history than us Yanks.

Part of that is simply having a history. We only go back 200 years. They had a heckuva lot going on with their little island for 1000 years prior.
5 posted on 11/01/2019 6:27:53 AM PDT by chrisser
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What in the world is an “instagram influencer”?

Usually some vapid twit who posts pictures all day hawking products that they get for free because they hawk products and post pictures on Instagram all day. Some make millions of bucks.

6 posted on 11/01/2019 6:29:40 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: C19fan

Norm MacDonald has a couple of funny jokes about WWII —

“I don’t care what anyone says — I think Hitler was a bad man.”

“I don’t know if you guys are history buffs, but I’ve been reading about WWII, and I’m starting to not like this Hitler guy.”

The jokes are funny because everybody knows about WWII and no one disputes the evil of Hitler. It’s so obvious. But, if we can keep future generations ignorant, Norm’s jokes stop being jokes at all.


7 posted on 11/01/2019 6:31:02 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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Their mental health is already seriously damaged from all the propaganda and untruth that they have been fed by a decadent society which holds TRUTH in contempt.

Reality will devastate them when it comes crashing down.

But you can't feel sorry for them. If they were not such spoiled, self-indulgent, intellectually and morally lazy fools, they would have demanded TRUTH long ago.

8 posted on 11/01/2019 6:31:14 AM PDT by Savage Beast (TRUTH, as clearly as we can perceive it and put it into words, is the best we can do.)
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“Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.”

*snowflake = ignorant, arrogant, lazy, immature douchebag


9 posted on 11/01/2019 6:33:12 AM PDT by twister881
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>> What in the world is an “instagram influencer”?<<

https://www.pixlee.com/definitions/definition-instagram-influencer

A social-media influencer is somebody with a lot of social media followers, who can be used to influence opinions of their followers.


10 posted on 11/01/2019 6:33:24 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: C19fan

They are already out of school


11 posted on 11/01/2019 6:34:35 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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Sugar coating life. Those who forget history are destined to repeat it.


12 posted on 11/01/2019 6:36:23 AM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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They know that they beat Germany and tell the Germans that at soccer games. People know there was a blitz. Probably a few names are still current. I don’t know if their knowledge - or ours - goes much deeper than that.


13 posted on 11/01/2019 6:36:47 AM PDT by x
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Freddie Bentley is in the dictionary under PUSSY!

What a frickin' whimp.

14 posted on 11/01/2019 6:36:51 AM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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Usually some vapid twit who posts pictures all day hawking products that they get for free because they hawk products and post pictures on Instagram all day. Some make millions of bucks.

Where do you sign up for that?!

15 posted on 11/01/2019 6:38:01 AM PDT by ealgeone
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“A social-media influencer”

basically new style MSM


16 posted on 11/01/2019 6:38:35 AM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: C19fan

Just think, one of these morons will cancel out your Repub vote in 2020.


17 posted on 11/01/2019 6:40:01 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: KC_Lion

Ping.


18 posted on 11/01/2019 6:40:23 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: HotHunt

I guess that he’ll avoid learning about Stalin’s Purges, Mao’s mass murder, etc.


19 posted on 11/01/2019 6:41:33 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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Anything that was good about the Brits looks to be a thing of the past. The Marxists have just about destroyed everything good worldwide except in the United States. But we’re certainly not immune.


20 posted on 11/01/2019 6:44:43 AM PDT by Crucial
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