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In reply to the discussion: Massive misinformation campaign against Israel. [View all]Wingus Dingus
(8,060 posts)Even worse than TV (and with even less historical context) is whatever's filtering down to young people thru TikTok and other social media. There's no referees or guardrails or fact checkers in social media. People my age (I'm in my 50's) were still fairly close generationally to WW2, Hitler and the Holocaust because of our parents and grandparents. Thus I am still sensitive to the fallout from that atrocity because we learned about it in school, saw it depicted in movies and TV, saw museums and monuments built, saw people like Wiesel write and speak, watched Germany and Europe in general wrestle uncomfortably with its past. We knew people who were THERE--they were OLD, but they lived in those times. In my childhood and teen years, it was still being dissected as a recent historical event with many sad lessons: how did this happen, why did it happen?
Maybe it seems like ancient history for young people today, or at least not relevant...or they're not even aware of it.