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Anon's class fails expectations (thelemmy.club)
submitted 1 week ago by [M] to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

See, and even this could lead into a fantastic lesson about how fascism is really seductive in these vague terms, especially to help clean up a lot of the questions of "well why didn't people fight back" that teens have when learning about Italy and Germany pre-WWII.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

    hindsight is easy.

    i can look back on every thing that happened to me in the past and it's clear what was wrong. but when you are living through it, you can't see that. it was not obvious and clear, it was confusing and I did the best that I could with the limited information I had, nobody is omniscient. but when we look back on the past it seems 'so obvious' because we have... way more information and experience and context than when have in the moment, especially the time to take all that info and process it.

    and it's stupidly arrogant to assume some average person of limited means and intelligence could see how 'evil' things around them were. only a minority of the population is looking at some big picture of what their government is doing, most folks just care about food on their table and are totally consumed by day to day life.

    admitting we are limited beings that make mistakes or just are totally blind to horrible things... is painful and scary.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    it’s obvious some people just have 0 empathy

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (1 child)

    which people?

    most people use 'empathy' as a word to bully other people and feel superior about themselves. and believe empathy is only given to select groups who have 'victim' status. so you are not allowed to empathize with germans or members of the nazi party, only the victims of the nazi state.

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