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Machete
07/06/19 3:39:51 PM
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https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/principal-apologizes-for-telling-parent-not-everyone-believes-the-holocaust-happened-214529886.html

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Florida high school principal William Latson reportedly told the mother of a student, Not everyone believes the Holocaust happened regarding the history curriculum.

According to 2018 emails obtained by The Palm Beach Post, Latson of Spanish River High School in Boca Raton, Fla. said that Holocaust education is to be introduced but not forced upon individuals, as we all have the same right but not all the same beliefs.

Latson was answering the mothers question on how that portion of WWII history was prioritized - the school holds annual Holocaust assemblies and focused one-day lessons for 10th graders. We advertise it to the 10th grade parents as [there] are some who dont want their children to participate and we have to allow them the ability to decline, warned Latson in the email.

That mother, who did not want the newspaper to publish her name, reportedly told Latson, The Holocaust is a factual, historical event. It is not a right or a belief.

However, the principal insisted, Not everyone believes the Holocaust happened and you have your thoughts but we are a public school and not all of our parents have the same beliefs so they will react differently, my thoughts or beliefs have nothing to do with this because I am a public servant. I have the role to be politically neutral but support all groups in the school...

He added, I cant say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee. Latson says his philosophy remains the same for slavery.

The mother (and another parent) met with Latson and administrators, challenging them on supposed lessons that her child claimed werent being taught, reported The Palm Beach Post. I came out of there feeling so much worse, the mother told the paper. How do you pick and choose history?

The mother asked that students read the memoir Night by Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel and for Holocaust assemblies for all grade levels. Since, the school has implanted the reading material but not the assemblies.

I regret that the verbiage that I used when responding to an email message from a parent, one year ago, did not accurately reflect my professional and personal commitment to educating all students about the atrocities of the Holocaust, Latson told The Palm Beach Post on Friday. It is critical that, as a society, we hold dear the memory of the victims and hold fast to our commitment to counter anti-Semitism.

Officials from the Spanish River High School, The School District of Palm Beach County, and the school board did not return outreach from Yahoo Lifestyle. Deputy Schools Superintendent Keith Oswald told the Palm Beach Post that assemblies are slated for the 2019-2020 school year. He says that Latson was not disciplined for his comments.

Last summer, Latson reportedly took a four-day trip to Washington, D.C. to tour the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for a poignant lesson and reminder of one of the most horrific events in human history.

It was a hastily, poorly written email that he apologized for, Oswald told The Palm Beach Post. Thats some of the challenge that we face when we email back and forth instead of picking up the phone.

Karen Brill, the only Jewish school board member told The Palm Beach Post, The Holocaust is a historical fact, and I am appalled that anyone in our district believes that its teaching may be opted out of.

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slimjimfizzle
07/07/19 4:14:36 PM
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Machete posted...
He added, I cant say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee. Latson says his philosophy remains the same for slavery.

Dude needs kicked in the nuts
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HANGtheDJ_86
07/07/19 4:16:49 PM
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That's pretty funny.

I wonder what the History Channel's stance on this issue is >_>
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TheVipaGTS
07/07/19 4:17:53 PM
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Holocaust deniers are complete pieces of shit..."i can't say it didn't happen"...you're a fuckin teacher and facts are that elusive to you? Fire his ass.
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slimjimfizzle
07/07/19 4:18:22 PM
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HANGtheDJ_86 posted...
That's pretty funny.

I wonder what the History Channel's stance on this issue is >_>

That it was aliens <_<
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Phantom_Nook
07/07/19 4:18:47 PM
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florida
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DeadBankerDream
07/07/19 4:20:49 PM
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I'd say fire him, but Florida trends Republican so they will probably give him a raise
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uwnim
07/07/19 4:20:52 PM
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A school has no obligation to support beliefs like that.
Does this school also leave open the idea the earth is flat?
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AceMos
07/07/19 4:24:08 PM
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florida man says something stupid it must be a minute in the day that ends with 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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DeadBankerDream
07/07/19 4:24:50 PM
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Conflict posted...
DeadBankerDream posted...
I'd say fire him, but Florida trends Republican so they will probably give him a raise


South Florida absolutely does not trend Republican

If South Florida declared themselves the 51st state, this would matter.
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SH_expert44
07/07/19 4:27:10 PM
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HANGtheDJ_86 posted...
That's pretty funny.

I wonder what the History Channel's stance on this issue is >_>

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Malfunction
07/07/19 4:27:39 PM
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Man what the fuck
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RebelElite791
07/07/19 4:29:01 PM
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slimjimfizzle posted...
Machete posted...
He added, I cant say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee. Latson says his philosophy remains the same for slavery.

Dude needs kicked in the nuts

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Machete
07/07/19 4:40:09 PM
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Who and what was post #12?
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uwnim
07/07/19 4:43:53 PM
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Machete posted...
Who and what was post #12?

A post saying that outside of of north florida, most of florida leans blue. Going to assume it was self deleted because there wasn't anything that should get someone modded in it.
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AceMos
07/07/19 4:44:45 PM
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uwnim posted...
Machete posted...
Who and what was post #12?

A post saying that outside of of north florida, most of florida leans blue. Going to assume it was self deleted because there wasn't anything that should get someone modded in it.

likely some one poted on the wrong account
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Master_Bass
07/07/19 4:47:25 PM
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RebelElite791 posted...
slimjimfizzle posted...
Machete posted...
He added, I cant say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee. Latson says his philosophy remains the same for slavery.

Dude needs kicked in the nuts

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QuantumTheory
07/07/19 4:47:25 PM
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Why do the 6+ million non-Jewish victims of the holocaust never get mentioned?
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TheRealDill2000
07/07/19 4:49:51 PM
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People are being too hard on the principal. He acknowledged his mistake and indicated that the email was worded poorly.
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Machete
07/07/19 4:52:35 PM
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Oh look it's TheRealDill2000!
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cuttin_in_farm
07/07/19 4:53:56 PM
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It seemed less that he himself thinks the Holocaust was a maybe... and more that some parents think that and he is trying to be neutral about it by giving a choice.
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TheRealDill2000
07/07/19 4:54:26 PM
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DeadBankerDream
07/07/19 4:55:12 PM
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QuantumTheory posted...
Why do the 6+ million non-Jewish victims of the holocaust never get mentioned?

This is a weird topic to bring that discussion up in
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DeadBankerDream
07/07/19 4:55:56 PM
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cuttin_in_farm posted...
It seemed less that he himself thinks the Holocaust was a maybe... and more that some parents think that and he is trying to be neutral about it by giving a choice.

I see no significant difference
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QuantumTheory
07/07/19 5:01:19 PM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
QuantumTheory posted...
Why do the 6+ million non-Jewish victims of the holocaust never get mentioned?

This is a weird topic to bring that discussion up in


Not really. The article includes anti-Semitism.

Not everyone who was murdered in the Holocaust was Jewish. Its true Jews were the single largest group and account for around 50% of the victims. But whenever Holocaust denial is brought up, so are accusations of anti-Semitism.
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DeadBankerDream
07/07/19 5:04:24 PM
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It's really weird to try and start an argument about how the holocaust should be remembered in a topic about holocaust denial acceptance in public schools.

Its almost like you want to deflect from holocaust denial being a bad thing
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Malfunction
07/07/19 5:05:35 PM
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QuantumTheory posted...
But whenever Holocaust denial is brought up, so are accusations of anti-Semitism.

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QuantumTheory
07/07/19 5:06:13 PM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
It's really weird to try and start an argument about how the holocaust should be remembered in a topic about holocaust denial acceptance in public schools.

Its almost like you want to deflect from holocaust denial being a bad thing


What utter bullshit.
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Machete
07/07/19 5:07:52 PM
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QuantumTheory posted...
DeadBankerDream posted...
QuantumTheory posted...
Why do the 6+ million non-Jewish victims of the holocaust never get mentioned?

This is a weird topic to bring that discussion up in


Not really. The article includes anti-Semitism.

Not everyone who was murdered in the Holocaust was Jewish. It?s true Jews were the single largest group and account for around 50% of the victims. But whenever Holocaust denial is brought up, so are accusations of anti-Semitism.


In the article, yes. Here? No. This topic is about a principal who essentially said "it is okay with me Holocaust deniers have their kids not participate in classes or events that teach the Holocaust as historical and real." You aren't necessarily wrong in what you are saying, but you are missing the point.
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DeadBankerDream
07/07/19 5:08:03 PM
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Then don't try to change the subject of a topic about holocaust denial if the idea that you want to derail discussions on holocaust denial offends you
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WWEPropaganda
07/07/19 5:14:51 PM
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You gotta believe someone needs to tell this clown about the WWE Hall of Famer Bruno Sammartino and namely his mother Emilia. Who had 7 children at the time the German Soldiers invaded her small village in Italy.

Forcing her and her neighbors to go into hiding in the mountains with no food, no decent shelter and only the bare minimal of possessions.

https://imgur.com/DLpwdj5

Then as her children began to starve and became deeply ill, she would routinely sneak back into her now occupied village, stealthily avoid the army of patrolling soldiers who would kill her without a second thought and retake her food and items from her home to return to the mountains.

One time she was spotted carrying a bundle of goods while trying to leave the village, and was shot by a horde of angry soldiers. She fell to the ground and dropped her belongings but she knew that if she stayed down she would die, and her children along with her. So with bullets whizzing past her head and pints of blood spurting out her body in every direction, she somehow, someway, got back to her feet and miraculously out-ran the trained soldiers, fleeing back to the mountains.

At the time young Bruno was suffering from rheumatic fever. And it was hard for him to helplessly watch his mother routinely walk into mortal danger. And this sense of fear was redoubled the night his brave mother returned, half-crawling with a bullet-wound covering her body with sticky red blood that was still pouring as she literally had none of the supplies they needed to survive in her hands.

Yet miraculously with no solid food supply, no clean water, no medicine and only partial movement left in her body from her wound. Emilia was able to nurse little Bruno back to health using what little blankets they had left and leeches they found literally on the floor.

Both Bruno and Emilia fought on, valiantly in the darkest of days with no hope. Just out of passion, love and determination. And merely a few years after the war was over, "Little Bruno" the starving malnourished urchin boy with severe rheumatic fever was now over 200 pounds, resembled a shaved bear and could carry a tree-trunk on his back.

The Italian Superman moved to America and quickly became one of biggest and most unstoppable superstars of all time. Dominating everything his path and becoming a millionaire in the 1960s. The man held the WWE Championship twice, for a combined total of 11 years. His 7 year Championship reign still holds the record for the longest WWE Championship reign in all history.

https://imgur.com/371fw1b

But as successful and amazing as Bruno was. He never ever forgot that time where he was a little boy hiding in a mountain, dying of starvation, fiercely ill, with nothing to his name and no promise of a decent future, surrounded by Nazi enemies, being barely kept alive and repeatedly rescued by a small woman with no apparent skills or abilities of note. Just because she was a hero with the heart and determination to do what was unthinkable.

It just goes to show anyone is capable of anything if they put their hearts and mind to it. And it'd make him realize what he was doing was wrong.

You have to wonder if it is insulting to memory of women like Emilia or her son Bruno if we take the hard won freedom granted to us be defeating the evil Nazis and use it to pretend the Nazis (and thus their victims) never existed.
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Machete
07/07/19 5:19:25 PM
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WWEPropaganda wins my topic.
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Vicious_Dios
07/07/19 5:23:14 PM
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This topic has been one hell of a rollercoaster.

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Bishop9800
07/07/19 5:37:14 PM
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TheRealDill2000 posted...
People are being too hard on the principal. He acknowledged his mistake and indicated that the email was worded poorly.


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PatrickMahomes
07/07/19 5:48:10 PM
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expected florida
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Skye Reynolds
07/07/19 5:48:57 PM
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slimjimfizzle posted...
Machete posted...
He added, I cant say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee. Latson says his philosophy remains the same for slavery.

Dude needs kicked in the nuts


No.

It's Florida. He needs to be fed to the alligators.
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slimjimfizzle
07/07/19 5:51:19 PM
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Skye Reynolds posted...
slimjimfizzle posted...
Machete posted...
He added, I cant say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee. Latson says his philosophy remains the same for slavery.

Dude needs kicked in the nuts


No.

It's Florida. He needs to be fed to the alligators.

Nuts first
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TheRealDill2000
07/07/19 11:41:28 PM
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slimjimfizzle posted...
Skye Reynolds posted...
slimjimfizzle posted...
Machete posted...
He added, I cant say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee. Latson says his philosophy remains the same for slavery.

Dude needs kicked in the nuts


No.

It's Florida. He needs to be fed to the alligators.

Nuts first

He apologized, and it's noted in the article. Why are people riled up over this?
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slimjimfizzle
07/07/19 11:43:23 PM
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TheRealDill2000 posted...
slimjimfizzle posted...
Skye Reynolds posted...
slimjimfizzle posted...
Machete posted...
He added, I cant say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee. Latson says his philosophy remains the same for slavery.

Dude needs kicked in the nuts


No.

It's Florida. He needs to be fed to the alligators.

Nuts first

He apologized, and it's noted in the article. Why are people riled up over this?

Nuts
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hockeybub89
07/07/19 11:44:52 PM
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MakoReizei
07/07/19 11:55:23 PM
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QuantumTheory posted...
Why do the 6+ million non-Jewish victims of the holocaust never get mentioned?

Others were killed but the Holocaust or the Shoah was about the murder of Jews specifically.
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008Zulu
07/07/19 11:59:34 PM
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Oh Florida Man!
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Machete
07/07/19 11:59:46 PM
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TreyFlowers
07/08/19 12:01:57 AM
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Holocaust deniers have to be the strangest group of people, up there with flat Earthers.

I mean... how do you deny a historical event? It'd be like saying the Tiananmen square massacre didn't happen, or the Chernobyl disaster didn't happen.
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Yao
07/08/19 12:03:02 AM
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People are allowed to have opinions
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Machete
07/08/19 12:04:08 AM
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Yao posted...
People are allowed to have opinions


What do you mean within the context of my topic?
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TreyFlowers
07/08/19 12:06:21 AM
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Yao posted...
People are allowed to have opinions


But it's not an opinion, it's a fact that the Holocaust occurred. Unless your opinion is that the death statistics are overblown, then maybe that's something that could be argued, but to flat out deny the Holocaust occurred is straight up incorrect.
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Yao
07/08/19 12:06:52 AM
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Machete posted...
Yao posted...
People are allowed to have opinions


What do you mean within the context of my topic?


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The man is a moron but we csnt stop people from believing nonsense or speaking it
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