Public school principal says he must be ‘politically neutral’ about the Holocaust
Public school principal says he must be ‘politically neutral’ about the Holocaust
“I can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee,” Florida HS principal William Latson told a student’s mother via email.
He insisted that educating children about Holocaust can be “introduced” but not “forced” because “we all have the same right but not all the same beliefs.”
When the mother insisted the Holocaust is a factual, historical event, not a right or a belief, the principal countered, “Not everyone believes the Holocaust happened….I have the role to be politically neutral but support all groups in the school.”
“How do you pick and choose history?” the frustrated mother told the Palm Beach Post later.
If such mass psychosis abounds—forcing history to be selective and politically neutral—then a tattered letter at Dachau concentration camp (translated from German to English) will ring even more true:
“What we don’t remember will happen again.”
I think that ANY sort of ambivalence or questioning , or denial of the Holocaust is proof of anti-semitism. And it is something that cant really be walked back. How do you walk back having said that there may be a question about the historical reality of the murder of 6 million Jews and some millions of others?
This moron should be forced to watch some of the videos of films taken during that time which were recently shown on National Geographic and other channels a few weeks ago. One entitled "Hitler's Final Days" was particularly graphic, gruesome, and disturbing in showing the brutality and evilness of both the Germans and Russians.
Agreed. Teaching the holocaust should be no different than teaching that WWII happened. We have the testimony, we have the mass graves, we have the photos and videos, we have tens of thousands of eye witness testimony taken during the Nuremberg trials and even confessions and damning documents from Nazi officers. Reasonable persons can only ask how anyone, with such a preponderance of evidence, would continue to refute the holocaust, or perhaps the better question, why? But then I remember there are still those who imagine the world to be flat or only 9,000 years old. I guess it's true what they say, you can fix ignorance with education, but you just can't fix stupid.
I do suspect that those who are in denial about this aren't so much in denial that it happened, but whether it was a bad thing or that nearly 7 million Jews were killed. For some reason white supremacists and wannabe Nazi's prefer to believe there were far fewer casualties and that the things Hitler was saying about the Jews in their society were true and thus any action taken against them was somehow justified. That's just a guess as to some of these deniers reasons for denying such an irrefutable part of world history.
"HS principal William Latson - I have the role to be politically neutral but support all groups in the school.”"
That is one Dumb Fuck for sure !
There is nothing "Political" about the "Holocaust" ! It just WAS, and HAPPENED !
Hell, I'll donate to a fund to fly him for a tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Then I want whatever university that principal Latson graduated from to revoke his degree/s.
From what I understand, the 2,500-student high school near Boca Raton where he is the principal is thought to have one of the county’s largest Jewish student populations.
Can I donate to the fund?
That is true, which is one of the most disturbing parts of the story. If this moron is pushing this warped ideology of history there, it could become a problem in places where there would be no push back.
With this mindset, how would you teach anything historical?
I am reminded of an incident in graduate school when a fellow student who had immigrated from Turkey insisted that the Armenian holocaust never happened. The professor made a limited attempt to convince her otherwise and some other students did as well. As the grandson of an Armenian woman who had told us many times of what happened in those days I was stunned at the exchanges going on around me.
But ultimately, it was quickly apparent to everyone in the room that we weren't going to force-change this woman's mind, so we just had to accept that this was what she was going to believe. This is simply the propaganda kids in that country are taught in their schools.
For context, it wasn't a class on Armenian history, it was a practicum on designing history courses for secondary schools and colleges. So, any individual perspective on a specific event wasn't a critical concern for the class. Still, I was amazed at what I had seen and heard.