RW lawmaker told a history teacher that he must remain impartial when talking about Nazism/holocaust

[CousinIT]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/adl-scott-baldwin-nazism_n_61dbb71ae4b061afe3b459fd

The Anti-Defamation League slammed a right-wing Indiana state senator who recently told a history teacher that he must remain impartial when talking about Nazism to his students.

Last Wednesday, Sen. Scott Baldwin told history teacher Matt Bockenfeld that he doesn’t discredit Marxism, Nazism, fascism or “any of those isms out there.”

“I have no problem with the education system providing instruction on the existence of those isms,” he said. “I believe that we’ve gone too far when we take a position on those isms ... We need to be impartial.”

Baldwin also said teachers could talk about the “existence” of Nazism, but we go “too far when we take a position” on it.

Baldwin later tried to backpedal from his remarks.

“There’s nothing neutral about Nazism,” the ADL stated on Friday, pointing out the millions of Jews and others were murdered by the Nazis:

Indiana Sen. Scott Baldwin's apology doesn't change the deep harms of using "impartiality" or "neutrality" as tools to sanitize history. https://t.co/1LMn3gbOlS
Our full statement here: pic.twitter.com/4fsYnF8rho

— ADL Midwest (@ADLMidwest) January 7, 2022

[PatSeg]

1. It seems to me,

that the United States clearly took a position on "Nazism" in World War II. If we hadn't, the world surely would be a much different place.

[lindysalsagal]

2. Thank you. So, all those dead soldiers and their families were wrong to send their sons to die?

This is responsible legislative repping? "Maybe, we're not sure, but, maybe your son should have stayed home and allowed Hitler to take over the whole world."

[PatSeg]

4. And it is just awful

that all those soldiers weren't impartial when they went to war.

With today's republicans, every day is opposite day. I'm afraid to think how much worse they could get.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. America awaits Baldwin's Cost-Benefit Analyis of Nazism

Should be a creeper

[tanyev]

5. A lot of Very Fine People, right?