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Explanation: When Eisenhower, commander of the Allied Forces in WW2, came across the horror of the death camps of the Nazis, he knew exactly what to do. He took great care to meticulously document everything that was found, including with extensive video and photographic evidence, inviting American media and Congress members to come to see the horror firsthand to ensure that it would not be doubted or forgotten.
Unfortunately, Holocaust deniers have emerged anyway.
are there “legit” deniers, or are they just cosplaying as assholes? I don’t think I have come across them in meatspace, and not saying they don’t exist. But I always thought of them like flat earth dicks. When pressed they admit it’s just for the “joy” of being a piece of shit.
Unfortunately, I've had run-ins with legitimate shitheads of this variety. At least some are sincere.
ugh. sorry to hear that.
For decent folks that’s a distinction without a difference. Or at least it can be treated as one. I don’t give a fuck if someone is genuinely a holocaust denier, or if they’re just being “edgy,” either way they’re a piece of shit.
The only way to satisfy your curiosity is to go down an extremely depressing rabbit hole. Modern politics makes my explanation more difficult to get across without risking a ton of other baggage, but if we can set that aside for just a moment: A depressing amount of people across history are very willing to believe the most stupid, heinous shit about and around the Jewish people.
Unfortunately extensive documentation will not work anymore. We live in an era of live steamed genocides and anyone can look up videos of state officers murdering people in the streets without repercussions and there are still people who cheer them on.
The extensive documentation did little to entrench the understanding that the Holocaust was deplorable, and we ended up, not only with Holocaust deniers, but with those that thought it would have been awesome if it were real.
Pictures of evil are not enough. Words denouncing evil are not enough. Witnessing evil come down upon your neighbors is not enough. Nothing else is enough if those who would commit evil upon others, those who would ignore the necessary social discipline of respect, those who would foster bigotry and intolerance are left to continue.
Devoid of consequence for hate filled destruction it will continue, and the only way to stop it is not through documentation, but active societal resistance.
Holocaust deniers are like conspiracy theorists. Only doing it to be contrarian and get attention. They are ginormous pieces of shit, like nick Fuentes and Alex jones
Enormous piece of shit, certainly. Just to be contrarian? I'm not convinced. Like when Alex Jones looked like he might actually get out of having Infowars shut down, when all he had to do was play the usual defamation game of "I didn't mean it literally, and you can't prove that I did", but taking the stand and just utterly destroying his own case by being a lunatic.