Texas school leader suggests balancing Holocaust with 'opposing' views

msn ^ | 10/14/21 | Priscilla Aguirre

[DoodleDawg]

in a secret recording, a Texas school administrator advised teachers to have an "opposing" book regarding the Holocaust – also known as the genocide of millions of European Jews during World War II.

The school leader works with the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, near Dallas-Forth Worth. According to audio obtained by NBC News, Gina Peddy, the Carroll school district's executive director of curriculum and instruction, made the comment during a training session on which books teachers can have in classroom libraries.

Carroll ISD held the training camp to respond to a parent's complaint of how the board reprimand a fourth-grade teacher who had kept an anti-racism book in her classroom. A Carroll staff member secretly recorded the training and shared the audio with NBC News.

In the recording, Peddy told the teachers to remember the concept of House Bill 3979, which is a new Texas law that requires teachers to present multiple perspectives when discussing "widely debated and currently controversial" issues.

"Make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust, that you have one that has an opposing, that has other perspectives," Peddy said,

[DoodleDawg]

I give up. What would the "other perspective" be?

[packagingguy]

The Nazi perspective, but we killed them off 76 years ago.

[Lurkinanloomin]

My guess is one from the Nazi and Islamic viewpoint that all Jews should be killed.

[DoodleDawg]

My guess is one from the Nazi and Islamic viewpoint that all Jews should be killed.

And that is something we want to present as an actual alternative?

[Lurkinanloomin]

Not by me, but professional educators want to teach all kinds of batty stuff these days.

[Billthedrill]

Get the kiddies their own personalized copies of Mein Kampf like they did in Germany. I forget how that one turned out...

Seriously, the "opposing viewpoints" argument holds as its premise that Holocaust denial should be given the same credibility as Holocaust history. It's a little like demanding that geography texts should be accompanied with Flat Earth pamphlets. IMHO, of course.

[Political Junkie Too]

What would the "other perspective" be?

I can't figure that out, either.

It's either that it was okay to exterminate the Jews, or it's now okay to isolate and persecute a disliked group.

Like, say, the unvaccinated.

For example...

Undesirables are dehumanized by:

• first prejudicing the rest against them,
  • Biden: “The vast majority of Americans are doing the right thing... This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
  • Biden: "We're going to protect vaccinated workers from their unvaccinated co-workers."
  • Don Lemon (CNN): "I think we have to stop coddling people when it comes to … the vaccines, saying ‘Oh you can’t shame them. You can’t call them stupid.' Yes, they are... The people who are not getting vaccines who are believing the lies on the internet instead of science, it's time to start shaming them or leave them behind."
  • Don Lemon (CNN): "most of the people I know who are vaccinated are irritated and really impatient at this point with those who are refusing for whatever reason to do this easy thing to save us from this nightmare pandemic."
  • Joy Reid (MSNBC): "most of the people I know who are vaccinated are irritated and really impatient at this point with those who are refusing for whatever reason to do this easy thing to save us from this nightmare pandemic."
• then they are made the scapegoats for whatever goes wrong,
  • Biden: "The unvaccinated overcrowd our hospitals or overrun the emergency rooms and intensive care units, leaving no room for someone with a heart attack or pancreatitis or cancer."
  • Joy Reid (MSNBC): "We begin The Reidout with a message—OK, we get it! COVID is the precious and you love it. You love COVID so much you want it to spread into schools, at the office, in the Walmart, on the cruise ships and in the club..."
• then they are discriminated against,
  • can't fly
  • can't dine out
  • can't go to gyms
  • can't go to shows, sports events
• then they are persecuted.
  • fired from jobs
  • denied unemployment benefits
  • denied medical treatments, surgeries
  • ???

Never forget.

-PJ

[ought-six]

Well, perhaps it is a Metaphysics class, and the subject is Alternate Realities.

[SauronOfMordor]

I wonder what her reaction would be to a call to balance Critical Race Theory with reading The Bell Curve.

[lastchance]

This has nothing to do with any teacher actually denying the Holocaust and teaching students to question it. This is about teachers being against the curriculum requirements passed by the Texas legislature regarding materials such as “The 1619 Project.” and other CRT friendly textbooks and lessons. Notice the phrase “widely debated and currently controversial issues.” The teacher is full of manure when she claims, “And make sure if you have a book on the Holocaust, Peddy continued, “that you have one that has an opposing, that has other perspectives.”

Crap on a cracker. The Holocaust is not a currently controversial or widely debated issue.

[AlaskaErik]

What would the "other perspective" be?

That it never happened. Plenty of people believe it never happened. I'd like to be in a class when that happens. Chuckie Schumer's take on that position would also be interesting to see.

[maro]

Of course, the Nazi point of view must be labeled as unacceptable. But talking about how and why an entire nation went astray is healthy and useful. When we see the newsreels of Hitler, he seems ridiculous. But to the German people, he was a heroic figure. How did that happen? A legitimate question.

[cgbg]

What would the "other perspective" be?

C'mon, you know--the leftists have shown their hand with the pfascist finger-pointing and name-calling.

Their point of view about their enemies is "they had it coming to them".

[Captain Rhino]

The alternative/opposing view would probably be from Holocaust Denier materials:

- The Holocaust never occurred.
- The main cause of death in the internment camps was endemic contagious disease and the crematoria were built to deal with the dead bodies.
- Etc.

Since their claims have been thoroughly debunked long since, the claims made in the books could be raised, tested, and disproved in class forensically thereby giving the class tools for future use when facing other frauds.

[Seruzawa]

We see millions of people drooling over the words of obvious frauds like Obama and the Clintons. Germany was by no means unique.

[Billthedrill]

I quite agree. In fact, I've just finished a really excellent book in that regard, Thomas Weber's Becoming Hitler. Highly recommended. It isn't for children, however. Nor should that be more than an academic question for advanced students, not elementary or secondary students.

[FatherofFive]

balance Critical Race Theory with reading The Bell Curve.

The Bell Curve is a great book. So is Bloom's, The Closing of the American Mind

[Qui is]

The Nazi perspective...

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Or the perspective of a leftist college professor, trust fund college kid, BLM, Antifa, communist activist, Mooselimb Imam, or a “Jesse Jackson / Al Sharpton” type.

[Charles Martel]

I give up. What would the "other perspective" be?

I'm not certain, but you can bet the idea for a children's book just rose to the top of David Duke's "Things To Do" list.

[traderrob6]

“What would the “other perspective” be?”

Could only be the Nazi “perspective.....Why all Jews should be exterminated.