Former White House aide Sarah Hurwitz, who served as a senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama, warned this week that Holocaust education was “confusing” young people into sympathizing with “weak, skinny Palestinians” instead of “powerful Israelis.”
She continued:
“You have TikTok just smashing our young people’s brains all day long with video of carnage in Gaza, and this is why so many of us can’t have a sane conversation with younger Jews, because anything that we try to say to them, they’re hearing it through this wall of carnage. So I want to give data and information and facts and arguments, and they’re just seeing in their minds carnage, and I sound obscene.”
And you know, I think, unfortunately, the very smart bet that we made on Holocaust education to serve as anti-Semitism education, in this new media environment, I think that is beginning to break down a little bit because, you know, Holocaust education is absolutely essential, but I think it may be confusing some of our young people about anti-Semitism, because they learn about big, strong Nazis hurting weak, emaciated Jews and then they think, “Oh, anti-Semitism is like anti-black racism, right? Powerful white people against powerless black people.” So, when on TikTok all day long they see powerful Israelis hurting weak, skinny Palestinians, it’s not surprising that they think, “Oh I know, the lesson of the Holocaust is you fight Israel. You fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people.”
Supposedly neuros are more sensitive to being just and fair as well.
I’ve been on the receiving end of some bullshit when I was young, and really don’t like seeing that kinda nonsense happen to others if it’s undeserved.
This is actually backwards. Autism undermines moral reasoning because of an inability to evaluate intentions. Fascinating research into how different brain regions contribute to ethical intuition. Here are some relevant lecture slides from MIT.
And now consider,
The correct answer to the first scenario is 6 or 7 out of 7, and the correct answer to the second is 1 out of 7. People with ASD answer low (2 or 3 out of 7) for both, focusing exclusively on outcomes.
That’s also why it’s a spectrum. Some of us have compensation for that automatic intuition.
Grace had a different prediction of her action in the first one compared to the second one.
That’s an interesting way to think about it.
That’s wild. I feel like situation 1 would be more like a 5 or 6 since it never says Grace got permission to use the coffee machine on the tour.
Sure, she’s just trying to get sugar for her friend. Someone put poison in it. She’s not at fault.