How did this get into “Common Core”? I see it blamed with no explanation.
My son had to do something similar, but with slavery in America.
“You’re going to defend it?”
“Well, no - not me personally - but I can argue for or against it. I figure ANYBODY could argue against it. I want to do the hard one and argue FOR slavery in America.”
It was a VERY interesting paper, and he made a lot of really good points. One of the key aspects was slavery in AMERICA. With the contention that if they hadn’t been brought to the U.S. they would have ended up dead after a few years in slavery elsewhere (Africa, the Caribbean, etc.)
He got an “A” on it too.
I think the case would be harder for the Holocaust though. Although I think one could make the case that as terrible as the Holocaust was, ultimate good came from it as the Holy Land was reclaimed by the Jews.