During a Politics of Water class, a Pitt instructor made a comment comparing mask-wearing to “being gassed in Auschwitz” — the largest of the German concentration camps, where the Nazis killed more then 1.1 million people. Shocked by this comment, a Jewish Pitt student expressed their uncomfort with the incident a day later on Reddit. … Continue reading ‘Appalled’: Pitt professor compared mask-wearing to the Holocaust