Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who has built his image around his career as a teacher, earned his master’s degree in education with a thesis on how to teach genocide that deemphasized the Holocaust, suggesting it be used primarily “as a means to educate students on the dangers of racism.”
Walz submitted the 25-page paper, “Improving Human Rights and Genocide Studies In The American High School Classroom,” to Minnesota State University in 2001. In the capstone, which was obtained by The Daily Wire, Walz said research showed that Minnesota students couldn’t pinpoint the role that racism played in the Holocaust.
Rather than addressing the apparent lack of empathy for Jews, Walz suggests teachers use Holocaust “as a means to educate students on the dangers of racism,” so they can identify early signs of discrimination against other groups.
He acknowledged that this argument…
