Will other members of the entertainment industry join Disturbed and Device vocalist David Draiman in calling this “abhorrent”?<\/p>\n
The Rialto Unified School District in California created an eighth-grade “Argumentative Research” assignment<\/a> that instructed students to explain “whether or not you believe [the Holocaust] was an actual event in history, or merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain wealth.” Students were asked to read several “credible articles,” including one that insisted, “If nothing else, this unbelievable coverup demonstrates the irrepressible Zionist influence and control of our country<\/a>.”<\/p>\n Sounds like a “credible article,” right?<\/p>\n The district has announced plans to revise the disturbing assignment that was reportedly crafted “to meet Common Core standards relating to critical learning skills.”<\/p>\n Draiman’s take:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/AnthonyDantzer\/status\/463495369725575168\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/DAVIDMDRAIMAN\/status\/463495992864555009\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/BrowncoatBoaz\/status\/463553121881694209\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/DAVIDMDRAIMAN\/status\/463559884177301504\n A school district spokesperson described the assignment as an “error. ” The Times of Israel reports that Rialto police are investigating threats against district administrators.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/DAVIDMDRAIMAN\/status\/463671911809961985\n Here’s part of the 18-page assignment:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Tomthereporter\/status\/463416681969115136\n Related:<\/p>\n ‘Go to hell’: Vocalist David Draiman of Disturbed destroys ‘ultra-liberal’ Rolling Stone in epic rant<\/a><\/p>\n David Draiman eviscerates Roger Waters’ response to anti-Semitism accusations<\/a><\/p>\n Full Twitchy coverage of David Draiman<\/a><\/p> Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/05\/06\/david-draiman-is-pissed-off-about-abhorrent-holocaust-denial-assignment-for-eighth-graders\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/DAVIDMDRAIMAN\/status\/463494856073945088 Will other members of the entertainment industry join Disturbed and Device vocalist David Draiman in calling this “abhorrent”? The Rialto Unified School District in California created an eighth-grade “Argumentative Research” assignment that instructed students to explain “whether or not you believe [the Holocaust] was an actual event in history, or merely a political scheme … Continue reading David Draiman is pissed off about ‘ABHORRENT’ Holocaust denial assignment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3174,2944,3173,3172,103],"class_list":["post-5720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety","tag-abhorrent","tag-david-draiman","tag-holocaust","tag-rialto-unified-school-district","tag-twitchy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/14345991532323-david-draiman.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}