Last week on The Alex Jones Show, a balaclava-clad Kanye West delivered what may seem like the senseless ramble of a lone lunatic beyond the state’s purview to silence — something to lament but impossible to halt.

The truth is much different. That a celebrity of West’s stature harbors antisemitic prejudices evinces a clear societal failure on many levels, let alone that he feels comfortable in public expressing them. Besides the promoters who signed him on their brands’ campaigns and the media gatekeepers who gave him rent-free platforms, the last-resort guardrail that could have stopped West, who now goes by Ye, on his path to delivering his screed was, well, middle school. Despite the inherent difficulties of teaching such a vast and complex subject, thousands of history teachers are realizing once more that, if done right, teaching about the Holocaust is society’s last best hope to eradicate antisemitic hate.