He is either not a US American, or the "Never Forget" nation forgot to properly teach him.
I live in one of those "never forget" nations that promised to never forget something... but it seems that we, too, managed to forget.
I feel you so much right now.
I guess we are all in the same boat... Errr land.
Wow, you live in Boaterland? Do you know Jimmy on the east side?
My parents were boat mormons, so what do you think? Of course I do know my brother Jimmy.... I hate him.
Psssssst....
Damit besagte Personengruppen es vergessen könnten, mĂŒssten die es erstmal verstehen. Das wĂŒrde Bildung erfordern und da wird dann schwierig.... Wir haben kein Geld fĂŒr Bildung. Das haben die Reichen.
It is more that the rich ensured that education focused primarily on the aesthetic horrors of fascism rather than its material origin. The impetus for bonapartist tendencies was never removed so it eventually returned as conditions necessitated. The rich could not admit it was the system they uphold and benefit from that gave rise to fascism without endangering their positions and implicating themselves.
Germany with AfD becoming the largest individual party?
Or he just didnât pay attention in class when it was taught. A lot of students treat history as irrelevant. It doesnât help that a lot of public school history teachers are the equivalent of a dad watching World War 2 documentaries. Lots of them basically teach history so they can be a coach instead. Because public schools donât hire independent coaches, and require all of them to teach something. So the coaches tend to fall into teaching history, because itâs easier than learning to teach calculus or chemistry.
he just didnât pay attention in class when it was taught
see: forgot to properly teach him.
He doesnât look that young. I canât imagine somehow missing the post 9/11 fallout and the war in the Middle East. The 20 year anniversary of it wasnât as extravagant as the 10 year. But as an American it was kinda hard to ignore.
If heâs from outside the us and like just turned 18 maybe. But like how does one even miss all of the memes about it? I guess even those have died down too.
History teachers in grade school seem to be either great or terrible. Nothing in between.
I can see someone born around then or after not understanding the scope of the event. I can think of things that happened when I was born or just a kid where even knowing about it later it just seems like something in a book. You can't know what a world was like before an event if you weren't aware of it.
How he escaped ever seeing more about it online is another thing, but then again I see lots of reaction videos, many that are probably legit, of people who never heard or saw things, even if they've heard references to it. It's yet another XKCD Ten Thousand moment.
On a wide side note, I had an amazing Ancient History instructor in college. First day he told us not to bother getting the text for the class, we're not using it. He took us on an incredible ride.
When I was in schools, American history was Pilgrims, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, The Great Depression, and WWI. Then it was summer. We might have a school assembly in February to talk about MLK.
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what i kinda don't get about this whole thing ... is that kinda, in other countries (look at the middle east), they get bombed daily and none of you bats an eye (well, some do, but still, this has been going on for 50 years and i hardly ever hear anyone talking about it). meanwhile you get one terrorist attack and everyone's supposed to lose their minds over this.
The US never gets attacked. There's an ally to the north, an ally to the south, and two big fucking oceans to the east and west. So, when it does happen, it's a pretty big deal.
Control the media, control the mind.
It's not about the actual casualties and destruction, it's about how you can spin it into your favour.
American Democracy got suckered for over 20 years to put oligarchs in power.
I mean, it's a terrorist attack involving multiple simultaneous plane hijacks crashing into the center of one of the most populated cities in the world. Not that we should rank terrorism, but...
It's just so blown up because it hurt american pride.
I lost 14 colleagues and none of them were American. Was the response overblown? Yes. But it's called the "World" Trade center for a reason.
racism i think. that time the "supreme race" got attacked
âWhyâs it called 9/11 if it happened in September though?â
It's named after their emergency number. Lots of people dialed 911 that day.
No, there used to be 9/11 buildings there. Don't know about the two missing ones. Two buildings were attackes. Now there's 7/11
Iâve just barely survived a date format discussion and this is the first comment I read after. God dammit
I only know Seven Eleven. Had no idea they had competitors.
Why, what happened on the 9th of November?
I dunno, but remember, remember the fifth of November.
Should we double check, and make sure he knows what Pearl Harbor was? And Hiroshima, and Nagasaki? And the Holocaust?
What? It's not unreasonable to say he may have missed some key moments in history.
I only learned of this one from Behind the Bastards
Edit to add
On 3 December 1984, over 500,000 people in the vicinity of the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate, in what is considered the world's worst industrial disaster.[3] A government affidavit in 2006 stated that the leak caused approximately 558,125 injuries, including 38,478 temporary partial injuries and 3,900 severely and permanently disabling injuries.[4] Estimates vary on the death toll, with the official number of immediate deaths being 2,259.[5] Others estimate that 8,000 died within two weeks of the incident occurring, and another 8,000 or more died from gas-related diseases.[6] In 1989, Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) of the United States paid $470 million (equivalent to $1.03 billion in 2024) to settle litigation stemming from the disaster.[7]
Naninjing, dresden, tokio bombing, pol pot.... there is no shortage of atrocicites.
The first 3 are American, I could see a foreigner not knowing. My sister is a teacher in Europe and she says none of her students knew about the Holocaust. These are teenagers. I think maybe we might be fucked as a species.
I would like to offer some perspective to the Americans upset the world doesn't revolve around them. And share a terrorist act from my country, that I know you lot won't know about.
But most of you lot celebrate the party that did it so, maybe it won't land well.
Did he go to a Waldorf school? I heard that's a thing. Like they just collectively tried to keep kids from knowing about it.
What is that and what would even be the point of that
Edit: looked it up.
Many Waldorf schools have faced controversy due to Steiner's connections to racist ideology[7][8][9] and magical thinking.[discuss] Others have faced regulatory audits and closure due to concerns over substandard treatment of children with special educational needs.[10] Critics of Waldorf education point out the mystical nature of anthroposophy and the incorporation of Steiner's esoteric ideas into the curriculum.[11][12] Waldorf schools have also been linked to the outbreak of infectious diseases due to the vaccine hesitancy of many Waldorf parents.[13][14][15]
Actual lol. Magical thinking.
Did ya tell him how much people went in circles trying to explain who did it but it was really territorial control and we kept switching who did it and then killed Osama bin Laden as a world distraction.
Remember remember the 11th of September.... wait that doesn't sound right
The equivalent would be someone in 2001 not knowing something that happened in 1976.
Disclaimer: am not American nor Western
I remember this day. Was a wee lad. We were on vacation. The TV was on and apparently it was the news. I don't remember if it's breaking news but it might not be, since we're 12 ish hours different time zones, and I remember seeing it at day time.
Well, back then I thought it was a movie...
And the eerie part was that my dad had just gotten back home from a business trip there just a few days before.
Well, I was in the third grade when 9/11 happened, and there was never any kind of formal education about it, because we had all just experienced it. Kids just a few years younger than me wouldn't remember it at all, but likely still wouldn't have learned about it in school yet. That's probably where this guy falls
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