High school principal fired after denying Holocaust was ‘factual’ event

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  1. DaveBN

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    Guess it depends on your profession and how vocal you are about it.
     
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    I had to take a look at who was the author of this post. You did a very good parody of Alex Jones whether or not that was your intention.

    I should have that stupid POS fir brains talk to my mother who at the age of 17 heard shooting over the other side of the Steppe from my grandfathers farm. She very stupidly peaked over the edge and saw the Germans killing the last group of that group of Jews being executed. They didn't even bury the dead but just left quickly. There is more to that mirnessing by my mom but to long to tell hear. My mom told me this story when I was hardlyba pre teen. As an adult years later Inasked why she told me about such horrific things when I was only a kid. She said that I needed to know the history of what went on during WWII and since I was the oldest of the kids and a male it was my duty to know. Great ma, just great.
     
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    if a white Principal told the school that he thought black slavery was no big deal, or didn't happen, he'd be fired.
     
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    Even before I clicked on the on the thread I knew one fact beforehand as sure as if the principal's name had been Shaniqua Johnson. My only surprise was that it was a he and not a she.
     
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    Nt
     
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    I was actually being sarcastic. :)
     
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    There have been a lot of people challenging the Holocaust recently. As far as I'm concerned they're not being realistic, but nevertheless, from the emails he sent to the parent, he seems to suggest that the issue is a political one and he has to remain neutral. He also mentioned that the Holocaust was being taught at two different grade levels as well as in an elective course. My guess is he took a rather dismissive approach to the parent's concern and didn't think it through.

    Also--there seems to be a notion that the principal denied the Holocaust. That's false.
     
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    Some parents might not agree that 2+2=4. So should we teach an alternative?

    Unbelievably incompetent.
     
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    I agree.. Welcome to the "woke" world where the worst sin is offending someone..
     
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    You're right. The principal did not step on the "third rail" of Political Incorrectness and state that the holocaust did not happen.

    He should not have been fired because he only stated the fact that the vast majority of the world does not believe the standard holocaust narrative and that fact is supported by an ADL study I cited earlier in Post #23.

    ”THE WORLD IS FULL OF HOLOCAUST DENIERS”
    https://www.theatlantic.com/interna...he-world-is-full-of-holocaust-deniers/370870/

    Unfortunately, this principal found out what really happens when you speak truth to power.
     
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    From what I read of his email exchange and from my experiences as a teacher, I'd say the principal wasn't approaching this for any political or apolitical reasons. It sounds more like he had a parent hounding him and he tried to dismiss it, then had to explain himself, which he did in an idiotic way by trying to make it sound like he was being professionally neutral. But that's just my guess.

    I find it extremely improbable that the principal was preventing the Holocaust from being taught because according to the article, it was being taught. The curriculum is usually decided at the state level, and it would be all but impossible for a principal to ban teaching the Holocaust. It's much more likely that firing had more to do with how he handled the situation.
     
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    Thank you, I think that your guess is probably accurate.
    However, I feel that firing of principal Latson was an excessive punishment demanded by influential & vocal extremist individuals who feel that mandatory Holocaust instruction takes precedence over the teaching of other equal or greater human tragedies such as the barbarities of Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, Genrikh Yagoda etc.

    Numerous academics have suffered similar persecutions for running afoul of what Norman Finkelstein labeled "The Holocaust Industry" including Finkelstein himself who was denied tenure/fired for exposing some of the more infamous holocaust frauds, financial corruption within the various Jewish reparations collection agencies and the numerous ways in which the holocaust has been exploited for political & financial purposes.

    Another frequently slandered historian, Nicholas Kollerstrom, noted:
    "The fastest way to get expelled from a British university is by saying you are looking at chemical evidence for how Zyklon was
    used in World War II, with a discussion of how debusing(delousing) technology functioned in the German World War II labour camps " https://archive.org/stream/BreakingTheSpell_48/BreakingTheSpell-Kollerstrom_djvu.txt

    Re:
    Again, I agree but feel that if the situation had involved any other topic, Principal Latson would very likely still have his job.
     
  13. The Wyrd of Gawd

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    Texas denied slavery and tried to pass it off as indentured servitude.

    If you read the current propaganda it is easy to think that the only people killed during WWII were the magic six million Jews. King Leopold II of Belgium killed around 12 million black Africans in the Congo when he was raping the country and chopping off people's arms and hands. How many people whine about that? And Winston Churchill killed far more Indians in Indian than Hitler killed Jews in Europe =https://www.countercurrents.org/polya230109.htm. Are people whining about that? A handful of Spanish and other Europeans slaughtered almost every indigenous person in North and South America and all we hear about is how wonderful they were.

    Sorry but I have no tears to give today.
     
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    Proves that there are a lot of people we shouldn’t save when the **** hits the fan. You’re truly insane if you deny the Holocaust happened. Whoever they are.
     
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    Heck, that idea was written into the Texas school books. https://www.newsweek.com/company-be...ling-slaves-workers-apologizes-we-made-380168
    https://qz.com/1273998/for-10-years...xtbook-that-says-not-all-slaves-were-unhappy/

    Before the Civil War some folks in Texas wanted to kill all of the blacks in Texas. There were no free black people in Texas. The slavers told them to stuff it because they didn't want to lose their property so the mob settled with beating some and lynching some. That period was known as the Texas Troubles. Hollywood has never made any movies about it. https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/vetbr
     
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    I wonder if he thinks the holocaust was happening on the border when OBAMA was viciously shoving small children in cages and separating families, Oh wait, we are supposed to ignore anything he did, so instead the concentration camps came after 2017. I apologize I was wrong.
     
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    The incident proves what happen when people don't believe all of the Jewish fairy tales. You can deny everyone else's but if you deny even one of the Jewish ones you get crucified and sent to hell. It is the ultimate display of racism. Sure, Jews were killed during WWII. The US had some in concentration camps and made South American countries deport them to the US and to Canada. We sent some to Nazi Germany. The problem with the six million figure is that it was pulled out of someone’s butt. A propagandist tried to sell the Washington dummies that eight million Jews had been killed while the war was still being fought. Even the dummies wouldn't buy that lie. So after the war the magic six million figure was adopted and anyone who didn't accept that lie was lynched. Heck, Jews continued to live in Germany all during the war. And countless Jews collaborated with the Nazis in oppressing fellow Jews in the concentration camps. That is why they were so fat while their fellow prisoners were nothing but skin and bones.

    There seems to be more survivors today than there were victims during the war. In the Talmud there are stories where the Romans killed billions of Jews in some small towns in the Middle East. And we know how the numbers in the Bible are way off.

    One of our favorite hobbies during WWII was burning people alive. How many Japanese and German civilians did we roast every day? I’m sure the grand total was more than six million.
     
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    Sure but that doesn't disqualify someone from teaching - at least not in our school system :)
     
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    Clearly, we are living in a post-intelligence age.
     
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    Too bad for the deniers that people took photos.
     
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    Stupidity should not be indulged just because parents are involved .

    This never offending someone is BS.
     
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    And many accounts of those who survived due to the need of the Nazis needing labor.

    And too many accounts from soldiers who discovered these camps. And walking skeletons of those used for labor before they starved to death.

    You can question the numbers as long as it still remains in the millions
     
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    That is very inconvenient for the deniers. Its like flat Earthers watching a boat sail off until it disappears.
     
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    It most likely was not a single situation, but a series of events.

    The first thing to keep in mind here is that this principal did not stop students from learning about the Holocaust. The local news there points out that the holocaust was taught in two grade levels and in an elective course. Knowing that, it would be unreasonable to assume the principal was preventing students from learning about the holocaust.

    It's like I said previously--his replies to the parent were likely a problem. And it's very likely not one incident, but a series of incidents with parents, or perhaps the final straw in a string of other unsatisfactory performances on the job. Trust me, if the principal's school was getting really good performance ratings, the district would put up with an awful lot to keep the guy.
     
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    And what group is responsible for this woke nonsense? The. ones who have big student debt?
     

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