Minnesota high school students mock Jews being sent to Auschwitz in TikTok video

[Behind the Aegis]

Two Minnesota high school students were criticized for sharing a video titled “Me and the boys on the way to camp,” which photoshops them dancing in a Nazi boxcar and happily skipping into Auschwitz, on the video social media platform TikTok.

The video contains humorous music whose lyrics include “Tell everybody I’m on my way.”

In response, the two boys shown in the video — posted by a high school student from Nicollet High School in Nicollet, Minnesota — were assigned a research paper titled “Hitler’s Final Solution at Auschwitz.”

Steve Hunegs, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas, said in a statement that he is “ increasingly concerned about a grave empathy deficit, which enables students and others to weaponize their knowledge about the Holocaust to insult the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, and further traumatize Jews at a time when we are experiencing a demonstrative increase in anti-Semitism.”

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They will write a research paper on Auschwitz as punishment. Yeah, that'll do it. For fuck's sake, just register them as republicans and give them a tiki torch and MAGA hat!

[whathehell]

1. Sick and hideous..

Their parents should have been called in and they certainly should be getting more punishment than a freaking research paper.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

2. MAYBE the research paper will help?

I no longer assume that everyone knows about the Holocaust.

I took a girl on a first-date to see Schindler’s List, which was recently released at that time, among other things.

As we walked out of the cinema, she made the comment that it was the worst movie she ever saw. “Why would anyone even write such a story?!”, she asked.

I replied that it wasn’t just a “story”, but it was based on actual events in Europe under the Nazis.

She then said, “You mean that stuff actually happened?!” As I gave her a brief history lesson, which she SOMEHOW never learned despite graduating from high school, she cried and cried. So at least she wasn’t a monster.

We didn’t have a 2nd date, btw.

Edit: At a restaurant, she revealed that she was raised in a fundamentalist Christian household.

[LuvLoogie]

3. Sorry to go off on a tangent, but...

Schindler's List on a first date?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. Yeah, that was probably a bad choice. Lol.

She didn’t express a preference for anything.

I warned her it would be disturbing, but it was the only movie showing in that cinema that got good reviews, so how about it? She then agreed to see it.

She probably expected a regular horror film, involving supernatural crap or whatever. I don’t really know what she expected, but her ignorance about the subject blew my mind.

[mercuryblues]

10. It probably saved you a bit of time taking her to that movie

You were easily able to move on after 1 date. What if you had made it to the 20th date and found this out?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. Yeah, I viewed it as a "blessing" too.

She was a young coworker of my mother, so I didn’t know much about her except she was “sweet” according to Mom. (That was probably true, but she was very poorly educated.)

I asked her on a date after Mom told me that she wondered who was the “cute guy” that had just visited her at work. So it was pretty much a blind date, except I thought she was cute too. (Mom described who made that comment about me, and I realized that I had “noticed” her too.)

[mercuryblues]

12. HAHAHA

My last bling date almost 30 years ago. I married him.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

14. Lol! I hope you didn't need to educate him too!

I might have been able to deal with her ignorance, because she at least seemed “sweet” like my mother claimed, but she’s the one who said that we shouldn’t date again.

That movie was the finale of our hours-long realization of our different worlds. Lol.

Maybe I broadened her horizons just slightly? I suspect that her parents had sheltered her a lot, but they probably didn’t promote mean thoughts like some evangelicals.

Edit: She probably didn’t like how I kept expressing shock over her not knowing anything about the Nazis, the Holocaust, etc. I wasn’t denigrating her, and I tried to be polite about it. Yet expressions of surprise kept pouring out of my mouth during the drive back from the cinema.

[LuvLoogie]

18. It sounds like that date went about as well as it could have, given the circumstances.

I don't mean that negatively. She was clearly moved, which confirmed her sweetness. As you suggest, part of it may have been her ignorance that anybody could do that to another human being--and then have that history presented so graphically and artfully. She may also have had limited knowledge of our own nation's history with regards to man's inhumanity to man.

While she may have been taken aback by your reaction, you were on a date, not a diplomatic mission. You were both being yourselves and, in your short story, I sensed kindness from the both of you.

[SheltieLover]

5. K&R

😳🤯 🤬

[grossproffit]

6. Will they be expelled like the Georgia high school students were or nah?

[samnsara]

7. they need to be identified and publically shamed...

..they are no longer 'high school boys'..

[Chainfire]

8. Future Republican leaders.

It is amazing to me that some people can learn to be so hateful so young. Of course, most of the Nazis who carried out the mechanics of the final solution were barely out of their teens.

[Jersey Devil]

9. Ignorance most likely

They need to be educated. A few years ago my wife and I stopped off in DC to see the Holocaust Museum for the first time. The room with all the shoes still gives me the shivers whenever I think about it. Something like that, maybe reading Ann Frank's Diary, to educate them.

[DFW]

13. Ignorance and isolation

They probably have never been outside their bubble, definitely never been to the Holocaust museum in DC, or any place like it.

Here in my suburb of Düsseldorf, my girls went to the Anne Frank Schule for 1st thru 4th grade, and they learned all about her life, and why the Nazis were so evil. It left a lifetime impression. The younger one's class, if you include sections a, b, and c, had kids of 27 different nationalities, including immigrants and children of refugees. As a final measure, the school was deliberately located in the building that used to be the local Gestapo headquarters during the war. THAT is how you ensure a paucity of right-wing radicals in the next generation.

Denying they aren't there doesn't work. The "socialist" East Germany, while it existed, simply declared "we're all good socialists now, no Nazis here!" and so never confronted its Nazi past as the west did. Sure enough, when the wall came down, where was the biggest concentration of neo-Nazi sentiment? In the supposedly "Nazi-free" east, of course. Suppressing it doesn't work. Only confrontation and education will work.

[Behind the Aegis]

15. I took this picture at Auschwitz ...

[BSdetect]

16. We need the equivalent of a "Sex Offenders" list for these idiots. Too drastic?

[spanone]

17. devolution.

What is wrong with people?

[Aristus]

19. Welcome to a life of unemployment and unfulfilling relationships.

We know who you are and what you look like. Get used to disapproving stares from HR managers for the rest of your lives.