Popular thought of late has not cared about truth. But at least in many cases, I still do.

-I’m happy about it for several reasons. The fact it circulated so fast shows that people care – they hold the holocaust important to remember and pass on.
-If one department cancelled Holocaust studies (and Snopes confirms this), then it sets the standard for others to do the same, in order to avoid clashes in classrooms. It’s the convenient thing to do, in the face of our current social reality and in a politically-correct society like England.
-However most of us agree that it is important that the Holocaust be taught and remembered, especially in a world where genocide has repeated itself more than once since WWII, is still occuring today, and is ignored by most of the world (see unwatch.com and other human rights organizations).
- Only an international uproar can stop school systems in the west from doing what is convenient – to skip over or skim through an uncomfortable historical period. And these emails – and blogs – are doing just that.

As for the claims of the email being xenophobic: it is certainly not easy to talk about issues such as the holocaust; Yes, it sounds xenophobic. But not talking about it is exactly what we want to avoid.