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'The Wave' Afterschool Special from 1981 still holds up with its lessons about fascism

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' The Wave' Afterschool Special from 1981 still holds up with its lessons about fascism.

The chilling story was based on a real high school experiment in Palo Alto , California , in the 1960s .

In the real experiment, first-year history teacher Ron Jones had students engage in a simulation of how fascism spreads.

VR Score

63

Informative language

64

Neutral language

9

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

34

Offensive language

likely offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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no external sources

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