Some horrifying statistics from yesterday's CBS Sunday morning program

[llmart]

In honor of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi death camps, CBS Sunday Morning aired some pieces about it. In one piece, they said that antisemitic incidents in the US spiked by double since 2015. Hmm...now, who came on the scene about that time that caused this to happen?

Also, another troubling statistic was that 66% of millennials do not know what Auschwitz is.

[dhol82]

1. Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.

[dem4decades]

2. Why does Sheldon Adelson give so much money to Trump?

I get he'saves money on taxes but it's that really worth it? Or is it Trump's Israel position? But that doesn't make sense either, back a party that's pro Israel but anti Jewish?
I just don't understand.

[redstatebluegirl]

3. His money is what he adores, nothing else.

Trump and the GOP cut his taxes, and take away any regulations on his business.

[Farmer-Rick]

5. Yup, it's wealth he worships.

There use to be a neighborhood bar on every corner and people bemoaned that Americans worshipped alcohole. Now the bars have been replaced by banks and we know Americans worship money. Even in the South the banks out number the churches.

[Grammy23]

4. Saw that programming. It's the only programming I set my clock

to watch. Those were horrifying numbers. Usually I feel better after watching CBS Sunday Morning. I just sat in numb silence after they showed the Auschwitz programming. People in the US think nothing like that could ever happen again.

What will wake them up??

[llmart]

14. I had a stone in the pit of my stomach after watching those clips.

They do usually do a feel good piece every Sunday and the nature piece at the end which are lovely, but they took on a somber mood to remember the horrors of the holocaust. All I could think of was the similarities between what's happening before our very eyes and the past and it was unsettling to say the least. Having been born right after WWII, it's not really that much of a distant past for me. My history teachers in high school did teach us about this, but my parents never spoke of it. My mother's parents were Germans but I never knew them. I always wondered if my mother knew anything about her parents' views on this subject.

Both of my children went to high school in the mid-80's, early 90's and they both learned about the holocaust. The youngest one's history teacher took the class to a holocaust museum and I will never forget how horrified my daughter was in seeing the exhibits. Just recently my son, who lived in Germany as an exchange student told me he thought he'd take a trip this year to visit Auschwitz as he thought it was important to see it. I believe if the schools aren't teaching it, the parents should be.

[Fla Dem]

6. CBS Sunday Morning did 2 very moving segments on Auschwitz and the Holocaust.

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"Never Forget"

What bothers me is today there is the annihilation of other races and nationalities.

[CaptYossarian]

7. I believe Jared Kushner's father-in law came on the scene.

[Perseus]

8. I bet a huge number of people generations older than millennial won't know about Auschwitz either

I hate to say it, but the number of USA citizens who do not care to educate themselves is huge, even people who attend college are surprisingly ignorant.

I believe it was Barbara Walters who went around college campuses and to people on the street asking just one question, "what is the capital of the USA?", and New York won...Most people who answered that question answered New York was the capital of the USA.

I talk to people and mention events, mention people who make news almost everyday, countries, and they have no clue.

A question for Spanish speaking people...How many times have you been asked if you speak Mexican? They don't know the language is called "Spanish", they think its "Mexican".

So I am not surprised they would not know about Auschwitz. They most probably think its candy.

[mjvpi]

9. Frightening indeed.

Most Americans totally ignore the fact or have never had it driven home that maybe the most effective genocide ever was inflicted on the indigenous people’s of North America. 10 million to 300,000. And an infinitely rich continent was taken from them. Go to Browning Montana and watch it go down in real time. And yes, I’m sure that hate crimes and attacks on indigenous woman have at least kept pace with the increases towards Jews and Muslims. Scary times, at best.

[pansypoo53219]

10. can we blame no child because it left behind the left civics + history on the back burner?

or repeating the revolution instead of WW2?

[RVN VET71]

11. My kids -- and I bet your, to, if you have kids

learned about the Nazi bastards at my knee. I told them who the evil people were, what they stood for, who and how many they sadistically and viciously murdered. If millennials do not know about Auschwitz, don't blame the dumbed down school system in so many American districts. Blame the damned parents for allowing the kids to eschew reading and conversing about serious issues for other, less intellectually constructive pursuits. (And, no, I've not been a luddite. My kids are extremely computer-able and, with their friends, gamers extraordinaire. Because they didn't have to choose one over the other.)

And I really am curious about that 66% claim -- not doubting, it mind you, but would like to know something more about where it came from and how compiled. If accurate, we may as well give up hope now because it means an entire generation of unlearned people will someday be taking charge of things without knowing where we (America) came from and how we got where we are. OMG! It would be a freaking generation of goddam Donald Trumps!

[Warpy]

12. When I was in school, The Somme was ancient history.

and while trench warfare in WWI was mentioned, the details were few. Ditto the details of why the whole thing started.

There was a great series about it on BBC in 1964 that was considered far too raw to show in the US. It's on You Tube, something like 23 hour of it, and it's excellent. You can see so much of what ensued after the war was over being dictated by the horror of that war. For one thing, the reason for the French surrender becomes crystal clear. They could afford to lose buildings. They could not afford to lose a second generation of young men 20 years after the first had been slaughtered.

Likewise, kids today who wonder about the insanity of the Cold War are going to have to do some catching up in their reading, ditto the insanity of the US military budget that persists today, along with the very real reason Israel has so much support.

Here's the first episode of the BBC series, for any history enthusiasts:

[pansypoo53219]

13. my 7th grade teacher had a minor in WW1 history so arch-duke franz ferdinand is imbedded in my brain

forget comic books. we need movies about the forgotten badasses from WW1 + WW2. shit. reading BADSASS of the week archives. superheros PFFt.

i also recommend old encyclopedia britannicas. so many forgotten people.

[cwydro]

15. Thanks for this.

I’m a huge WW1 buff.

My mother, who lived through WW2 in Britain, was also intrigued by WW1. She taught me so much about both those wars, those times.

[EleanorR]

16. If you're a twitter user, follow Auschwitz Memorial

Link to tweet

The posts are heartbreaking, but we mustn't forget.

[llmart]

17. I don't use Twitter but the two personal stories on Sunday Morning...

one was a male survivor and one was a female from Michigan, were haunting.

[EleanorR]

18. As painful as it is, it's so important that we hear and read these stories

Link to tweet

[llmart]

19. You are so right about that.

I read the Diary of Anne Frank in 6th grade.