I cant believe young adults today see Churchill as a despot for flattening Germany in WWII. Ive spent the morning trying to educate them of the war and defend Winnie. They even think Hitler was right to 'repatriate' jews to Israel.
It may not be the schools that are at fault Tamborine. If you look at the output of the far Right in Britain today, its easy for young kids to get derailed into the nasty areas.
But perhaps you can ask them to imagine suffering a sustained attack from someone trying to kill them; someone who has caused serious, life-threatening injuries to them and others around them.
Ask them if they can imagine defending themselves and causing serious injury to that attacker in order to stop their assault and ensure they are unable to attack anybody again.
Too much lefty PC nonsense in schools and the media, you can't learn the truth these days for fear of "offending someone" and it's this kind of thinking and mantras that will continue to facilitate the increasing popularity of the extreme right wing parties
Naomi, I dont think war is a topic in clubs & Costa coffee shops. These younguns run IT support, teachers, dentist, estate agents, etc....professionals!
Lots of opportunities here to remake classic movies for a young audience:
The Dam Busters - courageous National Socialists thwart cowardly attack on people's drinking water supply
The Great Escape - recidivist terrorists reject refuge in comfortable rest-camps, vandalise facilities and scatter into beautiful german countryside to spread fear and mayhem
The Dirty Dozen - american rapists and murderers sneak attack on Fatherland in defiance of Geneva Convention
Naomi, theyre clients for hair & beauty. They come from all over to work nr London. I either watch my tongue to take their money or retire.....the latter is imminently closer.