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FYI this is also applies to general knowledge of communist atrocities too.
Most people are already ignorant to how bad the Soviet Union and other communist states were, but it’s only going to get worse from here. That’s how extremist ideologies thrive.
Wasn't this bound to occur? You can't stop the wheels of history from turning. Generational memory would always shift, this is a historical norm.
In all fairness to them, all information about WW2 has been re written and heavily edited to create a story that’s at this point practically fiction.
It’s based on a true story. The holocaust happened, obviously. Most of the end outcome is well documented.
The reasons it
living through Ww3 as a history-literate-person will probably be as excruciating for us as it was for those in the 1930/40s and 1910s.
Difference is this time we have these black pits of idiocy in pockets 24/7.
Agreed 100%. It's one of the reasons I always hated articles like this. All it does is downplay the horrors of the Holocaust
The last part is right. Culturally, the NAZi are just generic bad guys in Call Of Duty like the generic zombies.
Stories are more memorable than dry history lessons. I'd like to see the "Band of Brothers" miniseries shown more widely, and to have more fiction that's closer to truth than superhero nonsense. There're countless odd corners worth a story. "The Girls of Atomic City" would be
The veterans are all dead the foundational myth of the 20th century is a distant forgotten memory.
Are you surprised there are people our age that have no idea who Pol pot or Mao Zedong were either.
It won't be long until kids start noticing that it's only nutjobs calling reasonable people with common sense the N word and the whole insult aspect of it falls apart.
I’m gen Z 1998 and it’s the decades of watering down these terms by the left that’s caused us to go numb to them, -ist and -phobe words no longer carry any meaning
A good number of the kids know exactly what the NatSocs were, and hence why they're rejecting the official narrative
The next decade will be spicy
It's important for parents to teach their children about important aspects of culture.
If someone's children have no idea about the history of fascism or marxism or simple western liberalism, then it is entirely the fault of the parents.
The younger generations are unburdened by unquestioning ingestion of propaganda and see enormous cracks in the edifice of modernity. They're disenchanted to say the least. You're going to see them entertain ideas you thought were prima facie false in response as they look for
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Let’s take those Reddit posts with healthy skepticism.
Today’s kids are unburdened by post-WWII Cold War baggage.
Millennials got thrown under the bus by Boomers; Gen Zs & Alphas won’t swallow history unchallenged.
Source: my kids, nephews & nieces.
Why does it even matter who the Nazis were at this point they’re not here now
Wait, how does a 12 year old not learn or know anything about World War II?
Let alone the holocaust?
I mean for a mid millennial when I started playing video games like Wolfenstein, Medal of Honor, the first Call of Dutys, Close Combat ect the bad guys here always Nazi era Germans. Culture seems to have moved away from that like it did from Cowboy movies in the 50s-70s
Inevitable.
"How do we establish a new moral framework, going forward?" Is the real question.
Eh we learned about the holocaust in detail at 13 (7th grade). She's 12. Kids aren't born educated, that's the parent's and the school's job.
Gen Z is cooked, but gen alpha isn't old enough to tell if they're cooked yet.
Mostly, from first-hand experience here, "Nazi" now just means someone who cares about their country in a way that is kinda mean and doesn't involve communism as a solution.
Killing concepts off with semantics. Same way people would claim that speech was “violence” with a straight face. When everything one doesn’t like is “Nazi”, nothing is.
Hell , people are using that word in response to selling jeans.
I share your concerns about failure to educate the latest generation on the crimes of the 20th century. However, I also think about how when I was a kid, plenty of victims were still around, and now they are almost all gone. Will we just look at Hitler like Timur in 400 years?
To be fair, I don't even think 9 out of 10 Baby Boomers could even answer what specifically is bad about being a Nazi other than the antisemitism. They know about the Holocaust but have no idea why it happened other than "the Nazis were evil"
i worked in teen residential once and i noticed someone drew swasticas on the floor of a room in permenant marker. i noticed nearby two girls didn't seem to care. they said they had no idea what they were. i said they were the symbol of the nazis. they said 'whats a nazi'
Yes, the idea a war killed millions and millions of people and literally affected a significant portion of the entire world makes no sense based on how history is now being taught. The very last veterans are 97 or older, and WW2 children are in their 90s.
This is what happens when they take out most of the WWII documentaries history channel used to show and replace them with weird realty shows
they are cooked but its not something that could be avoided, even while learning about them in history classes, they feel detachment to these events because they just feel way too far away from them
No that means that their entire political perspective won't be shaped by something that happened nearly a hundred years ago 
It was bound to happen eventually as time progressed. The fact that young people these days don't care and aren't curious about history at all, but still feel entitled to have strong opinions about the present concerns me.
No one talks about the Armenian genocide (still ongoing btw), the Rwandan genocide, or the holodomor either (not to mention the Kurds lmao). Sadly none of them have a big pile of shoes or a million well funded museums to reinforce their impact. I’m glad we’re finally moving on
I don't know, I feel like from what I've learned in school and outside of school, that everything they attempted to do and did were actually good for society at large, other than the lack of liberty or freedom that came alongside it. I'll trade in my liberty in order to be pure.
This is kinda fine. WW2 isnt really covered in schools until highschool so it makes sense a 12 year old today could just....not know
Yeah that's generally how the passage of time works. Nobody remembers the 30 years war or the 7 years war either, even though they were some of the most destructive wars in European history
In fact, it might be a good thing that the WW2 myth is dying
They watered down the word till it had little meaning. They call everyone they don't like or doesn't agree with them a "Nazi"
Why does this make them 'cooked', it's absurd that a single war (no matter how bloody) has ruled the minds of 6 consecutive generations.
The Nazis were defeated the better part of a century ago, and comparing everything to them has poisoned modern discourse.
Pretty sure nazi lost all meaning when lefties started using it to refer to Israelis
I feel ashamed to be a Gen Z and I will admit.. that I am so disappointed in my Generation.
So they lie about every war now but they didnt lie about ww2?
The official version doesnt make sense.
It's like calling someone a rapscallion
Just some old timey word that means "bad guy"
At 12 you're barely out of grade school, I don't think I learned what they were until 13 or 14
Why does this mean the kids are cooked? Seems to me it would imply the Jews are cooked…no pun intended
Lighten up here. Oliver. This kid is 12 years old. She’s going to study WW II in school very soon.
Doesn't help that the most frequent context for the use of the word "Nazi" nowadays is "anyone who isn't a liberal."
Rik from the Young Ones was calling everyone "fascists" in 1982. I assume this was based on real students.
If people weren't still hanging nazi flags and waving them amongst cult groups like the KKK and the Proud boys
I'd agree
But as long as nazi's continue to exist then the term is valid
Even if overused
Nazi just means generic bad guy in modern culture. It’s what happens when you overuse it as an insult.
LOL. Gen Zyklon IS watching documentaries about Hitler. They're watching things like Europa: The Last Battle and The Greatest Story Never Told. The Overton Window has shifted so fast for you guys...catch up.
Christ, this cesspool, I swear. These Nazi bastards just flock to these comments.
There is a chance to save the girl and actually teach her. It's better she doesn't know who real nazis were yet than her thinking every single person who doesn't agree with her worldview is a nazi.
And calling Jewish people that as well! The irony and stupidity of it all!
Maybe Nazi would carry more weight if it wasn't used against every single human being slightly right of Mao. Actions have consequences.
This is what happens when you abuse a word's meaning in general and it loses whatever meaning it has.
Even worse, Oliver, those same kids end up behaving just like the actual Nazis.
No, they know exactly what the nazis were because they have thoroughly studied WW2. That is why they are fans of them.
I don't think there has ever been a war more propagandized and at the same time least understood more than ww2.
young people only know this, the regime really fears nazi's and hates white people, so anything close to that would be seen as ideal.
blackpill for no reason. I've been doing student teaching at a high school, youre looking at reddit, a cesspool of misinformation and stupidity.
I look the same as I did in high school more or less and get to dress semi formal so students dont filter themselves around me
FYI this has been going on since baby boomers called anyone who wouldn't put up with their shit a yahtzee
Since when do children watch documentaries? You learn about that stuff in History class not through a screen. I seriously doubt this anecdotal evidence should be interpreted seriously. If it is there are only two options. Shitty parenting or shitty education.
The uk is worse than nazis. Not even Hitler had as much control over his citizens.
Oh, please. It has nothing to do when they were born. Plenty of generations were born long after WWII. Younger Gen X, millennials,… Gen Z and Gen Alpha are just uneducated.
Ah yes, we’ll just blame the generation as a whole for not knowing something instead of tackling the actual problem: the erosion of education in public school system(s).
Fantastic work there, Jia-chan.
I wouldn't say that they are cooked based off this reddit post. When I was 12, I only vaguely knew about the Nazis. It was only when I was 13, that History class fully taught me who the Nazis were and what they did. You should be concerned if they are 16 and still have no clue.
Blame the shitlib millennials who cried wolf ten million too many times.
As much as I think WW2 was a shining example of human triumph... yeah really not that surprising that it's not center focus for people a hundred years after the fact.
We've had worse dictators and genocides since.
Do you think millennials knew about Nazis? Maybe some few genX people but the vast majority have no understanding of Nazis or Weimar Republic or Hitler for that matter, all they know is the convenient caricature shown to them by their professors.
You didn’t figure that out when Canada’s parliament gave a standing ovation to an SS officer?
Nazis were hamfisted into the Foundation Myth of the Liberal World Order as Satanic figures who had to be defeated by the Righteous and Holy liberal democracies.
However, decades of liberal rule has led to decay and ruin; the youth is now finding new saviours, i.e. Nazis.
If only a certain group of individuals had been adverted against making "nazi" a meaningless generic insult that you throw at anybody who disagrees with you