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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Oct 19, 2021, 12:44 PM Oct 2021

Teaching 'opposing views' of the Holocaust is the latest effort to rewrite history [View all]

A Texas school district has written a new chapter in the ugly history of Holocaust denial.

An administrator at Caroll Independent School District in South Lake told teachers to include books that present "opposing views" of the Holocaust. "Make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust, that you have one that has opposing, that has other perspectives," executive director of curriculum and instruction Gina Peddy told a group of disbelieving educators.

The only other "perspective" on the Holocaust is denial. The demand to include it as a legitimate point of view is part of a larger effort to rewrite history to please those who fear the growing diversity of the United States.

Holocaust denial is nothing new. It began as soon as the camps were liberated. General Dwight Eisenhower, supreme commander of Allied Forces in Europe, anticipated such denial might occur..

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/teaching-opposing-views-of-the-holocaust-is-the-latest-effort-to-rewrite-history/ar-AAPI7oh

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