Teacher Can't Handle Antisemitism

I Can't Handle the Antisemitism This Year Teaching the holocaust this year has been an absolute nightmare. I don't know what happened since covid but like half of my 8th grade boys think it's funny to say things I never would have expected to hear from someone their age. Why do they think it's ok? We were watching a scene from Schindler's List when an African American student loudly blurted out "bruh Hitler was awesome" and the entire class thought that was hysterical. Another student called the movie "basically Jewish propaganda" because the director Steven Spielberg is Jewish and another student agreed. I had to stop the film to give a lesson about basic human decency which a few students resisted. I've heard everything from "Hitler looked cool" to "Jews actually do control everything" and multiple students actually started to debate if the holocaust even happened. I was dumfounded. Yesterday some students were laughing at Hitler quotes and saying they were "based" or true. I'm terrified for our future.

A Reddit post shows a teacher describing an eighth-grade class reacting to a Holocaust lesson with antisemitic jokes, praise of Hitler, Holocaust denial, and claims that the film Schindler's List is Jewish propaganda. The humor is dark and disturbing, coming from the absurdly horrifying contrast between basic classroom instruction and the students' extreme reactions; it is shared as a reaction to alarming ignorance, antisemitism, or hopelessness about the future.

• @eternalclassic / 27395 2023-02-03