Times of Israel tries to divert attention from the atrocities being committed by Jewish settlers against Palestinians.
It’d be smart to teach them to pick apart arguments like that. Too many professional historians get thrown about in debate because they don’t know what kind of arguments they’ll use this time
Why not choose a conspiracy theory that doesn’t directly involve arguments as to whether classmates should be allowed to live? Like “The moon is made of cheese”?
I mean, even if they chose “Australia doesn’t exist,” any Australian classmates can be ‘accused’ of being in on the conspiracy without anyone taking it too seriously. There isn’t AFAIK an actual group of people trying to claim that Australians are secretly ruling the world. Outside of the TF2 community, that is.
Basically,
•Swedish National Agency for Education recommended a handbook for HS teachers where they propose an exercise to help students understand how conspiracy theories work which included subjects such as the moon landing and the holocaust (“controversial subjects”).
•Swedish Jewish Central Council and others think the project is offensive to Holocaust victims and has questionable pedagogical value (also, they don’t like the word “controversial”).
•A spokesperson for the education agency says it will help teachers deal with subjects that create tension in the classroom, and that the holocaust is one of them because of antisemitism (pretty empty statement if u ask me, I didn’t even know how to summarize it without sounding like I’m taking her words out of context too much, I’m guessing she’s saying that it will help combat antisemitism?).
•Populist, right wing person asked the education minister about the project and she’ll respond tomorrow.
•Some talk about the critical race theory ban in Texas
I don’t have anything to say yet, I was just bored and I know you don’t read articles so enjoy
So this article was published on the 25th, yesterday? Times of Israel really doesnt follow Swedish news do they? Skolverket reversed on this topic on the 14th of October so no they arent suggesting this any more. Outdated news and it won’t happen. The exercise in of itself was mostly just to teach students source criticism because you’re supposed to make the group that argue that it didnt happen to obviously look dumb because the sources would be complete shite.
>“Group 1 must find at least three arguments for the case that the
Holocaust never happened, using facts and information from the internet.
They can also ask others what they believe and why,” the suggested
exercise read.
It was also made to actually help teachers how to actually answer to undemocratic values with facts and discussion in a classroom setting. Because of course if you have students that are obviously hateful against jews it helps to have an actual exercise about the entire thing so you can essentially debunk the arguments those students have. Y’all really think the National Board of education in Sweden is antisemitic? Y’all gotta fucking read all the facts and be SOURCE CRITICAL and not just accept this short article from Times of Israel that doesnt even mention that the whole thing was scrapped like 11 days before this article was even published. This shit couldnt be more biased… THIS IS WHY WE HAVE THESE FUCKING EXERCISES IN SWEDEN. They teach you source criticism every fucking year so you don’t fall for this shit. You can thank me later.
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Times of Israel tries to divert attention from the atrocities being committed by Jewish settlers against Palestinians.
It’d be smart to teach them to pick apart arguments like that. Too many professional historians get thrown about in debate because they don’t know what kind of arguments they’ll use this time
Why not choose a conspiracy theory that doesn’t directly involve arguments as to whether classmates should be allowed to live? Like “The moon is made of cheese”?
I mean, even if they chose “Australia doesn’t exist,” any Australian classmates can be ‘accused’ of being in on the conspiracy without anyone taking it too seriously. There isn’t AFAIK an actual group of people trying to claim that Australians are secretly ruling the world. Outside of the TF2 community, that is.
Basically,
•Swedish National Agency for Education recommended a handbook for HS teachers where they propose an exercise to help students understand how conspiracy theories work which included subjects such as the moon landing and the holocaust (“controversial subjects”).
•Swedish Jewish Central Council and others think the project is offensive to Holocaust victims and has questionable pedagogical value (also, they don’t like the word “controversial”).
•A spokesperson for the education agency says it will help teachers deal with subjects that create tension in the classroom, and that the holocaust is one of them because of antisemitism (pretty empty statement if u ask me, I didn’t even know how to summarize it without sounding like I’m taking her words out of context too much, I’m guessing she’s saying that it will help combat antisemitism?).
•Populist, right wing person asked the education minister about the project and she’ll respond tomorrow.
•Some talk about the critical race theory ban in Texas
I don’t have anything to say yet, I was just bored and I know you don’t read articles so enjoy
So this article was published on the 25th, yesterday? Times of Israel really doesnt follow Swedish news do they? Skolverket reversed on this topic on the 14th of October so no they arent suggesting this any more. Outdated news and it won’t happen. The exercise in of itself was mostly just to teach students source criticism because you’re supposed to make the group that argue that it didnt happen to obviously look dumb because the sources would be complete shite.
>“Group 1 must find at least three arguments for the case that the
Holocaust never happened, using facts and information from the internet.
They can also ask others what they believe and why,” the suggested
exercise read.
It was also made to actually help teachers how to actually answer to undemocratic values with facts and discussion in a classroom setting. Because of course if you have students that are obviously hateful against jews it helps to have an actual exercise about the entire thing so you can essentially debunk the arguments those students have. Y’all really think the National Board of education in Sweden is antisemitic? Y’all gotta fucking read all the facts and be SOURCE CRITICAL and not just accept this short article from Times of Israel that doesnt even mention that the whole thing was scrapped like 11 days before this article was even published. This shit couldnt be more biased… THIS IS WHY WE HAVE THESE FUCKING EXERCISES IN SWEDEN. They teach you source criticism every fucking year so you don’t fall for this shit. You can thank me later.
That is horrible