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shalom-iamcominghome · 1 year ago

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Slowly realizing that I was taught twice as much about the bubonic plague than I was about the shoah. I feel like that's telling. We never learned anything about the shoah specifically, just that the axis and allied powers existed, that Pearl Harbor happened, and we won. Because those are, apparently, the only important parts of WWII

#jumblr #jewish politics #jewish history #personal thoughts tag #antisemitism tw #shoah tw #shoah mention tw #i knew that the black plague killed ~33% of europe but not that the shoah killed over 50% of jews in europe. what's up with that.#i only 'discovered' and learned about this outside of school. one of the largest genocides in WORLD history? we don't need to teach that! 🫥#and i took MANY kinds of history classes in my (public) school. they were honors classes too! world history classes!!!!!!#i only took a class specific to the US three times (once for general US history then twice for state history classes)#wait! we did read one short story by elie wiesel in my AP english class. in my senior year of high school.#i can't specifically remember which story it was :/ it absolutely wasn't Night besause i read that on my own #no this isn't me saying that we shouldn't have learned about the plague - it was a horrific time period. but so was the shoah

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