FWD: this

i received a forwarded email from my parents regarding the apparent removal of the Holocaust from U.K. curriculum because it offended certain Muslims who claim it never happened. the email's author stated what an atrocity this was. one of the forwarders wrote this was an instance of PC going haywire. well, turns out upon further investigation, this pertains to one school way up North (out of 4500 schools in the U.K.) also, it wasn't removed from nation-wide required curriculum, but instead from an elective class one might take to obtain a specific degree that about 1/3 of U.K. students go for. thus, the number of students actually affected by this is, well, not too many. there were some other inaccuracies in the email, but that was the main one.
(oh, also. and this might be the best part. this email got into someones hands who didn't know that U.K. stood for United Kingdom and thus started another completely false email about how the University of Kentucky was removing the Holocaust from its curriculum.)

so really, this seems to be a case of not believing everything you read. or at least, being a little more critical. i'm guilty of this-- i know i agree with and accept certain information without questioning it much more than i should. in the case, however, it's quite ironic that the mission of this forwarded email was so people would never forget the Holocaust happened. to me, it seems one reason the Holocaust happened was because citizens went unquestioning and accepted the media and propaganda without digging deeper... which brings up one more cliché saying, something about the road to hell being paved with good intentions...

this instance along with watching fight club and being unemployed all stewed into a realization that freedom can end up being imprisonment. like all opposites sides of the spectrum, it's really more accurate to take those opposite ends and connect them so you have a circle where the two "extremes" are actually right next to each other. if you're free to do anything it can be so overwhelming you end up doing nothing. if you have no limits it can be more limiting than having certain restrictions. see everything from prisoners of Auschwitz being released to writing a term paper with no prompt.