We are dangerously on the edge of repeating history. Which group or groups will be targeted — Jews, immigrants, liberals, gays — is uncertain, but right now, there are women being force-sterilized, hate groups being mainstreamed, a cult is in power, and WASP supremacists made unaccountable for their actions.

Knowing that so many young people don’t know this critical history is devastating.

My catholic grade school taught us precious little history, but they did teach the Holocaust and Hiroshima in agonizing, unforgettable detail — and I’m glad they did.

Peace.

This can never be forgotten.

Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. And this cannot be repeated.

I believe it is a direct result of years Republican attacks and niggardly funding of public education coming home to roost. The more ignorant the population is, the more likely they are to fall for the Republican line. I am not Jewish and we had conversations with our children about the holocaust in particular, and the persecution of Jews in general.

Our public schools need less sports and more history and parents need to get their faces out of their mobile devices.

Collectively, Americans don't know much about History.

Or Biology.

Or Mathematics.

Or Physics.

Or Chemistry.

Or Literature.

Or the Arts.

Or Political Ideologies.

At least a third of Americans are examples of the Dunning/Kruger effect: They think they know more than they do and their ignorance prevents them from learning new things.

Oh, by the way. There's a deep and profound streak of anti-Semitism ingrained in too many Americans. They hate immigrants if they're not white and European.

from parents, or just by osmosis of culture through entertainment. Neither is there much curiosity about it by a lot of them!

Here's another shocking situation: Just last week, DH ran into a youthful co-worker who knew nothing about the 9/11 terrorist attacks; nothing about the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, Shanksville, PA - How is that even possible? That 20+ adult was a toddler at the time of the attacks. had survived a truly negligent/abusive early life, had not completed a GED, was not registered to vote, and already had two small children to support. That co-worker spoke to DH about how there was now a need to know stuff for the kids' sake, but still...

I grew up in the 1950s (yeah, a Boomer) and had heard about the Holocaust long before I moved into Junior HS - to be fair, insurance agents once made house calls to pick up insurance premiums, and our family's agent was a survivor with a tattooed number, my grandfather never made it home from WWII, and my dad served in the Pacific.