Christina McGuirk couldn’t stay silent after a school official in Southlake, Texas, advised teachers like her to balance any classroom books depicting the horrors of the Holocaust by also providing titles written from an “opposing” perspective. She spoke anonymously to NBC News, and the resulting story set off an international firestorm. The Auschwitz Memorial weighed in on social media. But McGuirk’s ordeal was just beginning. In the end, only one person suffered formal consequences because of the Southlake Holocaust fiasco: McGuirk. |