It is disturbing the recently reported decline in teaching students of the Jewish Holocaust at US schools and universities.
However is it any less disturbing to exclude from classrooms the Turkish genocide of Armenians, a political inconvenience of course per the later US-Turkey alliance therefore the convenient exclusion. Is it any less disturbing to ignore in classrooms the Filipino-American War immediately following the Spanish-American War thus the US government's broken promises and atrocities exacted upon the Filipino people. Is it any less disturbing to edit out of post-World War II history hence unheard in classrooms the mass slaughter of German civilians during Allied occupation with the US government fully aware. And is it any less disturbing to categorize as defense of domestic security and foreign interest the widespread destruction of Mideast property, liberty even life into the hundreds of thousands and more by the US military.
Near endless of course are such examples.
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