It’s driving me insane: What to do on Yom Hashoah
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before but in January, I had asked for my school administration to acknowledge January 27. And they refused with their dumbass excuse « Not everyone is interested »
And you know, I live in some random nowhere suburb where nobody cares about the Holocaust. No, everyone’s more interested in Quebec nationalism. And look where that lands us, 9th graders who don’t know who Hitler is, 11th graders who think the Nazis were Russian, teachers who think Hitler is Jewish, teachers who think Auschwitz is the name of a celebrity, teachers who think Anne Frank is Amelia Eheart.
Even the teacher who visited Dachau somehow doesn’t see the issue. Noooo, she’s worried that it’s making me sad. but lady, I’m not sad because I’m studying the Holocaust. This is for how I am treated because of me studying the Holocaust.
The people who don’t know shit think I’m being excessive. And the people who do know a bit, still think I’m being excessive, acting like I’m some kid in a phase. My damn parents think I’m being excessive. How do I do ANYTHING like this?! No, I am not taking this up to the school board because in a place without a Jewish community or a Holocaust museum, it would be pointless to even try.
I’m a bit perfectionist maybe. I’m planning on posting a Yom Hashoah drawing but idk if it doesn’t work anymore since the day passed.
I wanted to do some sort of 2 minute of silence with my friends. But then that didn’t work because the friends who didn’t want to do it, started talking since « I’m not doing it, so I’m talking » Even though that’s not how anything WORKS!
My history major friend told me that just me remembering is enough and it’s not my responsability to change the school. That would be nice if I believed that. If I don’t do it, who fixes the historical inaccuracies of my friends and teachers? My dad told me I can’t force people to do things even though I feel like the last person to force people to do things, it’s not like the firends who didn’t want to do the 2 minute of silence were guilted into doing it with me or anything.
I’m non Jewish. And there’s still teachers assuming I’m Jewish. I don’t know how to feel about that. I don’t know how to feel about not being what they damn expected.
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