Thread by @KosherSoul

Oh yeah...
If you teach about us, the Jewish people in the context of the Shoah/Holocaust you have to admit:
1. White supremacy is evil and has affected the human race, the planet and the fulfillment of the American promise.
2. That America turned away Jews from sanctuary.
Cont.

3. That there is no hierarchy of religions. It is personal and private to decide to be a part of or not be a part of a religious community.
4. That Jewish peoplehood stands on its own terms not in relation to the story of Christianity.
5. That Jews had lives before our traumas.

6. That Hitler's Germany drew both on their colonial practices and racial science atrocities in Africa and Jim Crow in America along with millenia of European anti-Semitism.
7. That using nationalistic and scapegoating tropes and logical fallacies against groups is anti-American

8. That Roma and Sinti people, the disabled, LGBTQ people and members of political and religious groups that resisted Nazism were murdered in mass and bc of that intolerance is dangerous.

9. That a diversity of Jewish cultural and ethnic practices and identity sometimes but not always attached to Judaism have been used to promote ignorance and hatred towards Jews and this practice has been used to foment adjacent hatreds.

10. The attempt to convert people out of Judaism or teaching about Jews converting as necessary for the revelatory fulfillment of prophecy according to other beliefs is wrong.

11. That social justice is not some "Marxist" plot but does owe much of its origins to Jewish traditions rooted in human decency and ethics. Some of that same social justice owes its existence to the traumas of the Holocaust.

But your school board really wants to figure out how to teach the Holocaust without having to admit any of those points and a thousand more so cut the bullshit.