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by mauvehaus 1215 days ago
Perhaps, I should clarify: I'm not suggesting that it's a good solution, merely that it holds a certain appeal to some people in the short term.
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In 1960s Germany, students where so outraged by the absence of Nazism from their history curriculum that they turned violent. They rioted, bombed, and killed because they felt they where being denied their right to learn their recent history. And they blamed this on the fact that their teachers and parents had been Nazis, and thought they where trying to erase their crimes. In a flash of cruel irony, the state's desire to shelter the students from political violence ignited it again in the streets and in the hearts of their students.