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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Oct 15, 2021, 07:57 PM Oct 2021

Texas School District Rebukes Holocaust Statement From Curriculum Director [View all]

Source: Newsweek

A Southlake, Texas school district has backtracked in the wake of outrage after one of their top executives was recorded suggesting that Holocaust denial should be taught in their classrooms.

In an audio clip released Thursday by NBC News, Gina Peddy, the executive director of curriculum and instruction for the Carroll Independent School District (ISD), can be heard in a meeting suggesting that opposing views on the Holocaust should be included in textbooks.

"Make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust," Peddy says, "that you have one that has an opposing, that has other perspectives."

Others in the room can then be heard questioning her, asking how it is possible to teach opposing views of the Holocaust.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-school-district-rebukes-holocaust-statement-from-curriculum-director/ar-AAPA0Uz?li=BBnb7Kz

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Stupid person stuck their finger in the water to test the temperature...... Red Mountain Oct 2021 #1
Something tells me she is only the first of many to do this rurallib Oct 2021 #2
Something tells me she's neither the first nor the last. cab67 Oct 2021 #6
Something tells me she has a relative on the school board packman Oct 2021 #11
I am just relieved that this was a bridge too far, even in Texas. n/t NH Ethylene Oct 2021 #3
Yeah, they aren't ready to go full on nazi in public - yet! lark Oct 2021 #9
Which was a decision they reached OldBaldy1701E Oct 2021 #18
Eisenhower wanted the Holocaust and death camps thoroughly documented because he knew there would be keithbvadu2 Oct 2021 #4
Ike was right on the money! NotANeocon Oct 2021 #15
KKK boasting: "We killed six million Jews the last time," he answered. "Eleven million is nothing. keithbvadu2 Oct 2021 #17
In the Soviet Union Turbineguy Oct 2021 #5
Sad to Say.. toughtony Oct 2021 #7
Outstanding post! Kid Berwyn Oct 2021 #10
So is misogyny a powerful tool, yet often overlooked, or not responded to strongly. BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2021 #19
Next Up: The Fifty Stateman Oct 2021 #8
How about flat earth texts for those Round Earthers packman Oct 2021 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author ExTex Oct 2021 #13
This whole episode is just too unbelievable bucolic_frolic Oct 2021 #14
As Manson said... czarjak Oct 2021 #16
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