Noémie Verhoef was taken aback when she read the paper her student handed in.
Jews had provoked the Germans into wanting to exterminate them because of their “irrational” religious faith, he wrote.
In the Philosophy 101 essay, the student went on to blame victims of massacres throughout history for their own persecution.
The situation is not a one-off.
Once or twice a semester, Verhoef — or one of her colleagues at CEGEP de Victoriaville, about 170 kilometres northeast of Montreal — comes face to face with the ideas of the far-right — budding or in full bloom — in their classrooms.
Immigrants and the transgender people
