Posted on 05/19/2014 3:44:13 AM PDT by markomalley
But perhaps that would spark outrage ...
“Was slavery actually a bad thing?”......
I’d vote for that. In fact, Clevin Bundy even suggested that blacks were better off under slavery than they are today.
A more comparable assignment would ask, “Was black slavery in America a real phenomenon, or was it a hoax designed to extract sympathy and wealth from other citizens?”
The answer is:
A) Many of the teachers on the committee are, themselves, incapable to engaging in critical thinking.
B) At least some of the teachers on the committee actually BELIEVE there is some question as to whether the Holocaust actually occurred, and therefore consider holocaust denial to be perfectly legitimate.
sorry: should have been “incapable OF engaging ...”
Seems that there are no “secular” Jews out there in Los Angeles who want to stand up for their relatives who ran around with numbers tattooed on their wrists, and who maybe still do.
Does the cat have their toungues?
Just asking.
IMHO
Exactly.
I can imagine the reception that “exercise in critical thinking” would receive.
I wonder how many of the teachers on the committee were of the same religious persuasion as Superintendent Mohammed Z. Islam and spokeswoman Syeda Jafri.
No “argumentative research” assignments on evolution or global warming, I’ll bet!
There is much more evidence for the Holocaust than for institutional slavery in the United States. “Contemporaneous written sources,” you say? All forged by the brilliant conspirators! “Physical remains”? Doesn’t prove anything!
But seriously, this is the level of reasoning at which many people operate, in which a simple assertion, “I don’t believe that,” is considered to create a respectable case against massively documented fact claims.
I find that hard to believe. But if it's true, that's the worst part of this whole thing. I mean, it wouldn't surprise me in the least that someone named Mohammed Z. Islam would be a Holocaust-denying antisemitic lunatic, but the parents have NO excuse. Did they not know about the assignment? If my kid were at that school, I'd have been in the principal's office ripping him a new one before the day was out.
“Islam is theologically malignant”
That’s the best d@mn phrase in that entire article. Nails it!
So, what’s the difference between college based anti-semites (pardon me, `advocates for a Palestinian state’) and the wearers of swastika armbands?
Not much, IMHO.
“I wonder how many of the teachers on the committee were of the same religious persuasion as Superintendent Mohammed Z. Islam and spokeswoman Syeda Jafri.”
How about a question about whether the Crusades ever happened?
“A more comparable assignment would ask, “Was GLOBAL WARMING in America a real phenomenon, or was it a hoax designed to extract sympathy and wealth from other citizens?”
The SAVE THE WORLD ADVOCATES use the same tactics that Hitlerism used to condemn the “moneygrubbing Jews” to extinction: incomplete and/or false data, mathematically extended by statistical projections to “prove” an unprovable theory.
The main difference that comes to mind immediately is that “pro-Palestinians” tend to want the world to revert to the technological level of the glory days of pristine Islam, while the German Nazis were very pro-modern industry.
No, that’s a question worth asking, although an assignment with a genuine pedagogical intent would not telegraph the expected answer by attributing pernicious motives on only one side.
Your example is the opposite of proposing the non-occurrence of a massively documented historical event.
I’m a bit confused by the title of this post. Where is the “Stealth” in this assignment? The anti-Semitism is pretty clear to me. A better question to ask would be “Why does the school district continue to employ an ally (or member) of the Aryan Brotherhood?
I don’t think it’s Aryan Brotherhood.
I think it’s muslims.
...but I agree about the lack of stealth.
Even as someone who is not Jewish, the anti-Semitism “hidden” in the assignment was obvious to me.
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