Last week on The Alex Jones Show, a balaclava-clad Kanye West delivered what may seem like the senseless ramble of a lone lunatic beyond the state’s purview to silence — something to lament but impossible to halt.
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Instead, important though the figures are to any fact-based account of history, the teaching of the Holocaust shouldn’t hammer on about the 6 million lives lost but instead zero in on the incommensurable human suffering of each one and their loved ones. The focus should be on the Holocaust’s human dimension, honed through the eyewitness testimony of survivors. This emphasis would better equip students to assess the role the Holocaust plays in the long arc of humanity’s horrors.
And finally, all efforts to teach the Holocaust should frame it as a preventable tragedy, one that put into play the ethical consciousness of millions who could have done more to save Jewish lives. This doesn’t necessarily mean boxing all midcentury Europeans into the categories of perpetrator, victim, and collaborator — that distinction is not a binary one but one of degree.
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