Not the first time the professor has taught this class I take it.

💯 There are not 2 sides to the Holocaust….ever.

Perfectly illustrates the "there are no stupid questions, just stupid people asking questions"

F**k devil’s advocates. Actual d’Evils are in charge

First of all, you didn't even need to say "white guy". We already know. Second of all, I'm a little mad that we're robbed of the insane thing that was about to come out of that man's mouth.

With 3 guesses you'd have it.

Fun fact: "Devil's Advocate" was an actual job at the Vatican, tasked with finding any reason why a candidate for sainthood shouldn't get it.

*is

No, I'm pretty sure they eliminated the position.

A+ for the professor.

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Excellent reposte 👏

I hope that guy got ostracized by the rest of the class.

😂😂 the only answer

They’re banning books on race and the Holocaust—not just in schools, but now over 400 titles pulled from the US Naval Academy Library. (Maya Angelou, too adult?) They’re scrubbing websites. It's digital book burning. My point: The right says, “No, you may not,” too❗️ Think about this!

I am 120 percent sure, this students parents vote republican. . 😿😿😿

Fucking fuck the fucking Nazi fucks

I had a professor quickly say “devil don’t need an advocate” in a similar situation. It was great.

Why would anyone want to play devils advocate on that…?

Hating Jews, just because.

Shit that didn't happen for 500

I only wish the professor had also said, this is settled and documented history, and any "controversy" is made-up horseshit.

Awesome

“Hey! Can I be the class asshole for a few minutes?”

Lol . . .

Students in world history watching videos about WW2: “Ew, why are we watching this!?! Are those people dead!?” Me out loud: “Yes, they’re dead. We’re watching it because it’s part of history. Me in my head: “Oh I don’t know, because some of your parents are advocating that we do this shit again.”

Do not believe anything you see on social media. No original source. Just dismiss this kind of content and block those who post it. We need facts and verifiable sources do to dominate on Bluesky. Not random things meant to only make people feel emotions.

A guy fucked a corpse on the NYC subway but this story is too far fetched for you?? 🤪

The culture on social media MUST change. It must be professional in every respect and as reliable as an old school newspaper. If you can't prove it, don't post it. It is stuff like this that is killing society.

I am not saying it is right or wrong. The DEFAULT now is EVERYTHING on social media is false unless fact checked and sourced with full context. This post does not make that standard and thus must be reported and blocked. Blue sky should be 95% fact posts and at most 5% opinions. We are done.

Omg please leave. Social media Is not a news site and anecdotes aren’t gonna be fact checked. Get over it. 🙄

Overheard

You may be alone in defining the purpose of social media. The word social gives it away. We share videos of kids and puppies. We share jokes, personal stories, even writing prompts for creative people. Some share art. You are suggesting it’s a professional fact sharing network and that’s untrue.

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Good. People who do this are useless assholes that don't know how to shut all the way the fuck up.

If that was the case in more classrooms, we'd have fewer smug conservatives in the world.

It should be socially normative to ostracize and embarrass people who deny the holocaust, argue against equal rights, as well as climate science denial and anti-vax positions. Treating these people with deference or respect made them monsters it most definitely was not the left not being nice enough

> "May I play the devil's advocate?" "Only if you wear this very special badge for every day the rest of the year..."

Only if you acknowledge you are advocating for the devil...

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Wow powerful! I’m Jewish and I hate Israel is committing genocide of the Palestinians. Remove Netanyahu. Save Palestine and the soul of Israel.

Israelis have been voting the most right-wing government in the world and is effectively an apartheid. Netanyahu, who is anti-2-states-solution, is the longest serving PM. There has never been a protest for Palestinian human rights in Israel ever. How do you "save soul" of such a country?

Israel started moving to the right after the lord of evil, Rupert Murdoch, started distributing a free paper.

You are talking about a colony born of Nakba genocide and expanded by 76 years of ethnic cleansing. Rupert Murdoch came later.

Yes true, but times do change, and for a while Israel was moving in the right direction. We need to acknowledge all parts of our histories and improve. When propagandists and fear mongers have a pulpit we only can go backwards.

Things seemed to take a distinct wrong turn after a settler assassinated Yitzhak Rabin, until when there appeared to be a faint glimmer of emerging hope. Fash types use political violence because it works for them.

I think they also need the propaganda machine otherwise they seem unhinged. But for whatever reason the whole world tracked in the wrong direction.

It's good that you are a moral jew. I don't know if you are Israel or not. And I appreciate you want end genocide of Palestinians. But i don't know if your goal of "saving soul of Israel" is realistic. Israel was born a European colony by Nakba genocide and been doing ethnic cleansing since 76 yrs.

This is a product of the "both sidesism" media where everyone can have an opposing view point that rationalizes positions that are factually and/or morally wrong. We also allow mistruths to be said without calling them out as lies and calling out and shaming the LIARS! 2 cents given😁

The devil needs no more advocates. He’s got plenty already and most of them call themselves Christians.

Well, done professor. I hope the Nazi police do not haul him away for this.

when what he means is “the advocate of my bias beliefs”

Quite so.

White men gonna white.

This sounds like a conversation I had in an 8th grade Social Studies classroom. I was the Special Education teacher who sat in the back of the room, doing nothing. The teacher told the kids that the Civil War was about “states’ rights”. I said, “Yes, the right to own slaves.”. Didn’t go well. NC

Brilliant!

Never like those who play the devil advocate, period.

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Say NO! to fascist disruptors.

I just finished reading “Mengele: The Complete Story.” Even Mengele’s own son Rolf didn’t buy into the I-was-just-following-orders nonsense that he and many other Nazis tried to argue. A choice was made, through and through. They chose evil, and any justification is plainly complacency and apathy.

What would he have said, that Hitler deserved an award for his pioneering work in population control?

Colonizers did the population control thing long before that asshole. How little we forget the genocide of the native peoples that were here long before America, Mexico and Canada existed.

We’re not falling for the tolerance paradox anymore.

Well… let’s reword that because it’s valid. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox...

This is a weird topic to try to be a devil’s advocate on.

So is anti-vaxxing, climate science denial, raw milk drinking, and a whole host of other medical issues like COVID and environmental problems like corporate pollution, and yet here we are in the United States enabling a bunch of people who are literally arguing that up is down on the flat earth.

Someone posted how we need to bring shame back. We need to shame these people and their thinking.

One of the far right Libertarian lines is that Shane is a useless emotion. If they could convince others to be too embarrassed to shame anyone, they just keep getting away with their racism, classism, sexism and weird tendency towards wanting to lower the age of sexual consent. Shame IS very useful.

They’ve been allowed to think their line of thinking is correct. We need to make them know it is not!

Agreed 100%. I'm not sure when we as a society moved from a person being free to live as they please according to their beliefs (or lack thereof) to enabling people who speak obvious lies or false facts with no basis in empiracal evidence.

Exactly!!

Lol shame not Shane

Especially not in these times when it seems like we’re about to get another one.

Thank your professor for me

Stephen Miller has time to hang out in college classes??

Sadly, there are too many young men like that.

The evangelicals and “conservatives” have been grooming every single one they could get their hooks in.

Don't forget Fox News grooming white men and women that they must fear everyone of color is here to take from them (all while cashing in on government benefits).

I’m a Chicana, and I approve this message.

Makes me long for the days when the most annoying person in your class was a creationist trying to argue with your biology professor.

Ironically, the “MAGA” evolved from the creationist.

Anti-science Christian Nationalism has Made America Great Depression Again. Go MAGDA /s

Third time’s the charm.

They're the same people, just grown more and more crazy

Project 2025 could see a return to those days.

It’s coming back. Dismantling the education department means each state gets to set standards. So now the biggest church will lobby local government to push anti abortion/gay is sin BS & only the desperate teachers will even work in those states. College enrolment will be interesting in 20 years.

Facts matter. Opinions are like sphincters......everyone has one and nothing but stink comes out.

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Okay there's a difference between tolerating an opinion and just enabling stupidity or racism. An opinion: An evangelical Christian says they don't vaccinate because it is against their religion (tolerable) Stupidity: The same person says vaccines cause autism or other diseases (zero tolerance)

And religious exemptions should only be for adults, all children should be vaccinated for potentially lethal or debilitating illnesses. No more neglect and abuse hidden as religion!

Sorry.. screw religious exceptions for vaccines. You want to be part of society, you work to protect and promote a healthy society; otherwise, you isolate and quarantine your short existence.

No country in the world mandates vaccines but they do for school and the like. If you choose to participate in society, then you must. That is why the freakshow ruining our country want homeschooling and to destroy the Dept. of Ed. in part. They have some weird 18th century fantasy, its absurd.

Yeah I agree that is a really difficult one. We do not allow parents to beat their kids anymore (well at least, there are structures in place to address that). Denial of medical care could be neglect and abuse, unfortunately we live in the dumbest timeline thanks to false equivalence.

That’s how it’s done

Good for the professor. All it takes is walking thru Auschwitz-Birkenau to wake the bell up and realize all the belongings ha the Nazis collected were owned by everyday folks: shoes, family photos, suitcases. They had little notice and were lied to as to where they were going. What’s that sound like

Except if your name is Musk, who was (apparently) distinctly underwhelmed by the whole thing and more concerned about the photo op/PR opportunity, the psychopathic prick.

I was going to say, but you already did, thank you

You’re welcome lol. Elbows up with Canada! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇦

Was he wearing a red hat, by chance?

It's always white men that wanna play devils advocate.

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More of this needs to happen. The devil doesn’t need any more advocates, people! Knock it off!

Yes

Thise things are not for debate or opinion. Either those from the past or thr ones that ata happening in the worright now.

Me as teacher: Yes the Germans were pushed from the unfair treatment in the treaty of Versailles. Yes hardship gave credence to the message of Hitler. Yes many joined to save themselves and claimed they were following orders. Now for the fun part: absolutely none of that absolves them so STFU.

I think right now is a good time to do some deep diving into the psychology behind people joining cults or hate groups, and especially important to teach kids all of this, to hopefully prevent future regimes :/

Principal: Did you tell a student to STFU Me (channeling my inner Trump/Shitbag and leaning into the mic): I do not recall

Clearly fake news pushed by the radical student body. 😉

Back when I was in college in a combine sociology/anthropology mega class this happened several times over the course of a semester. Those guys got so upset whenever they weren’t allowed to regurgitate their support of oppressive systems and fascism.

This sounds similar to my class yesterday when a student piped up 'Given the Koran demands Muslims to kill all infidels...' That got cut off quick with a tight precis of Islam's ban on violence for conversion and an end to that line of questioning.

When I did my shahada I had to swear I wasn’t doing it for a man or by someone forcing me to

Terrible.

How?

It's terrible that situations meant you had to swear that first.

The Devil needs no advocate. It is the rest of us who need an advocate. Amen.

As a person who plays devils advocate in many situations… I 💯 support the professor on this!!!