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Heliogabalus
11/09/21 11:27:08 PM
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I understand it inasmuch as I can see why some groups can be motivated by sheer intellectual dishonesty to deny it. At the same time I do not understand how people can outright lie to the world, if not themselves.

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BobanMarjanovic
11/09/21 11:29:01 PM
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how many deniers are there? there can't be over 100, it's nothing to really lose sleep over

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Homeless_Waifu
11/09/21 11:29:59 PM
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Ignorant people, that's all.
They choose a bridge to die on and live their entire lives that way. No matter how much they know they're wrong, they refuse to budge because they cannot stand the idea that they are wrong/ignorant.

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hockeybub89
11/09/21 11:30:39 PM
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I never even understand what the gain would be from any "Big Lie" conspiracy theory.

The logistics are always ridiculous too.

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JBaLLEN66
11/09/21 11:34:00 PM
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BobanMarjanovic posted...
how many deniers are there? there can't be over 100, it's nothing to really lose sleep over

does op lose sleep?

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HairyQueen
11/09/21 11:45:48 PM
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BobanMarjanovic posted...
how many deniers are there? there can't be over 100, it's nothing to really lose sleep over
Dont pull numbers out of your ass like that.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47015184.amp

Five per cent of UK adults do not believe the Holocaust took place and one in 12 believes its scale has been exaggerated, a survey has found.

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theAteam
11/09/21 11:48:39 PM
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People love the idea that everything's a conspiracy and only they are smart enough to sniff out the truth.

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Notti
11/09/21 11:52:12 PM
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They hate the Jews.

They don't want them to get any sympathy.

They want it to happen (again).

True or not doesn't matter so much. It's like conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories are often about hating a certain group and making up a story to give you and others like you, a reason to hate them more.... and possibly act on it (you only need one person crazy enough to do it. Stochastic terrorism.)
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g0ldie
11/09/21 11:55:48 PM
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some of the more nefarious Holocaust denial conspiracy theories center around it being some kinda ploy by Jewish people to garner global sympathy, so that they can use it towards their end for some kinda domination.


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IShall_Run_Amok
11/09/21 11:56:39 PM
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They think that by denying the knowledge of the Holocaust, or questioning the numbers, they can soften people on the idea of committing another Holocaust. It is that simple.

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PC_Genjin
11/09/21 11:57:40 PM
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When I first found out about Holocaust deniers I thought it was just people who thought the Holocaust was too scary & sad to have really happened so they just don't want to think about it. Lmao
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Squall28
11/09/21 11:57:42 PM
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Heliogabalus posted...
At the same time I do not understand how people can outright lie to the world, if not themselves.

People do it all the time. Not just with the Holocaust. People put too much of their ego into their political beliefs, and dumb shit starts coming out.

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Verdekal
11/10/21 12:00:12 AM
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A lot of antisemites believe Jews wield a large amount of power and used the holocaust to garner sympathy or use it as a weapon to further their goals.

Of course its illogical, bigotry is always illogical.

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BobanMarjanovic
11/10/21 12:00:47 AM
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HairyQueen posted...
Dont pull numbers out of your ass like that.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47015184.amp

Five per cent of UK adults do not believe the Holocaust took place and one in 12 believes its scale has been exaggerated, a survey has found.
That's like 3 million people, that's insane

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St0rmFury
11/10/21 12:01:33 AM
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Imagine this, there are Sandy Hook deniers too.
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JBaLLEN66
11/10/21 12:14:33 AM
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theAteam posted...
People love the idea that everything's a conspiracy and only they are smart enough to sniff out the truth.


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Proto_Spark
11/10/21 12:21:30 AM
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HairyQueen posted...
Dont pull numbers out of your ass like that.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47015184.amp

Five per cent of UK adults do not believe the Holocaust took place and one in 12 believes its scale has been exaggerated, a survey has found.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/survey-finds-shocking-lack-holocaust-knowledge-among-millennials-gen-z-n1240031

There's also this one for 18-34 years olds in the US, though it has some pretty big claims, like 63% didn't know 6 million jews died, over1/2 thinking the number was closer to 2 million, and over 10% of respondents saying they had never even heard the word "holocaust" before. Or 22% of people thinking the holocaust was a WWI thing, not a WWII thing.

And 10% of the people surveyed said they either didn't think the holocaust happened, or weren't sure if it did or not.
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Rayman2943
11/10/21 12:28:41 AM
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Not knowing the 6 million number in itself isn't denial unless you intentionally lower the number.

But yeah those stats arent good
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The Eko
11/10/21 12:32:12 AM
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joe40001
11/10/21 12:33:00 AM
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Heliogabalus posted...
I understand it inasmuch as I can see why some groups can be motivated by sheer intellectual dishonesty to deny it. At the same time I do not understand how people can outright lie to the world, if not themselves.

What you seem to be talking about are people who know it happened but try to tell others that it didn't.

I believe a denier actually believes it didn't happen though.

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Proto_Spark
11/10/21 12:36:49 AM
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Rayman2943 posted...
Not knowing the 6 million number in itself isn't denial unless you intentionally lower the number.

But yeah those stats arent good

True, I think the 63% of people not knowing that might be more of a question of the sample taken rather than suggesting there's a lot of holocaust denial - just to put a little asterisk on the whole study since a number like that seems a little sus.
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Heliogabalus
11/10/21 5:30:32 PM
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JBaLLEN66 posted...
does op lose sleep?
I wouldnt say I lose sleep over it, but it does piss me off.

A few years back a friend of a friend was trying to convince me that no Jewish people were killed in 9/11 and it makes you think. He moved on from that to trying to say the Holocaust was totally exaggerated.

I asked my friend not to bring the moron to drinks again.

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Big_Nabendu
11/10/21 5:33:02 PM
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Hmmm
I tagged some antisemites on ce and what do you know. They seem to avoid this topic. Don't even see the mod I tagged either.

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Heliogabalus
11/10/21 6:02:09 PM
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Big_Nabendu posted...
Hmmm
I tagged some antisemites on ce and what do you know. They seem to avoid this topic. Don't even see the mod I tagged either.
Are you surprised?

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spikethedevil
11/10/21 6:05:21 PM
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Big_Nabendu posted...
Hmmm
I tagged some antisemites on ce and what do you know. They seem to avoid this topic. Don't even see the mod I tagged either.


I remember said topic with said mod, it got locked snd that was it lol.

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Funkydog
11/10/21 6:13:25 PM
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Big_Nabendu posted...
Hmmm
I tagged some antisemites on ce and what do you know. They seem to avoid this topic. Don't even see the mod I tagged either.

I mean, we have a holocaust denier in the topic already. We have a few of them on CE, as well as a handful of deniers of other genocides.
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BB mofo
11/10/21 6:21:44 PM
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Holocaust denial in the US began with father of the neo-nazi movement George Lincoln Rockwell. He was a WW2 veteran in the European theater who had actually witnessed a death camp being liberated. However, he denied it had happened through a letter in a gentlemen's magazine of all places. He even made up fake sources to back himself up so that he sounded knowledgeable. In later correspondences with other antisemites, he admitted that his reason for spreading misinformation was that society was turning against antisemitism precisely due to the horrors of the Holocaust.

I'd advise you to look for the episode about him on the podcast "Behind the Bastard". A lot of techniques the alt-right use today came from Rockwell. For example, things like Ben Shapiro debating inexperienced college students on campuses to bolster right-wing concepts like race-realism in the public eye.

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Joeydollaz
11/10/21 6:25:40 PM
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The enemy team was bad

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spikethedevil
11/10/21 6:33:13 PM
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Joeydollaz posted...
The enemy team was bad

WTF? @Joeydollaz

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Sheiky-Baby
11/10/21 6:36:10 PM
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Half of those deniers are trolling. The other half can't even tie their own shoes.

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Heliogabalus
11/11/21 1:44:06 AM
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Joeydollaz posted...
The enemy team was bad
What the hell does this even mean?

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Guide
11/11/21 1:46:33 AM
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Being part of an "inside secret" makes dumb people feel smart and significant. Having a target gives them a boogeyman, upon which they lay blame for things they cannot parse.

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DeadBankerDream
11/11/21 1:57:20 AM
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I'm shocked joenumbers is in here defending "the right kind" of holocaust denial.

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spikethedevil
11/11/21 4:39:15 AM
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spikethedevil posted...
WTF? @Joeydollaz


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StickFigures720
11/11/21 5:36:15 AM
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It's easy to deny things you never witnessed or experienced when you think the world revolves around you.
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Irony
11/11/21 5:44:23 AM
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Big_Nabendu posted...
Hmmm
I tagged some antisemites on ce and what do you know. They seem to avoid this topic. Don't even see the mod I tagged either.
Jballen is here

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MrMallard
11/11/21 6:25:28 AM
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Republicans: holocaust numbers are overexaggerated and based on estimates and we can't justify such a concerted effort in commemorating the fallen Jews and gays and disableds if the data is faulty

Also Republicans: THE LEFT WANT TO INJECT US WITH STRANGE CHEMICALS!!! KRISTELNACHT!! WEIMAR!! WARSAW!!!

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DeadBankerDream
11/11/21 6:53:07 AM
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shockthemonkey posted...
Wait what?
He's saying it's not real holocaust denial if the person doing so knows they're lying.

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JBaLLEN66
11/11/21 7:04:54 AM
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Why doesnt op fight them

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joe40001
11/11/21 7:14:19 AM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
He's saying it's not real holocaust denial if the person doing so knows they're lying.

People are able to read what I actually wrote.

I find your attempts to reframe what I said to be misleading.

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DeadBankerDream
11/11/21 7:23:00 AM
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joe40001 posted...
I believe a denier actually believes it didn't happen though.

DeadBankerDream posted...
He's saying it's not real holocaust denial if the person doing so knows they're lying.
What did I reframe?

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Lorenzo_2003
11/11/21 4:58:51 PM
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Holocaust deniers dont make sense to me, although I dont know any in real life.

Does that make me lucky because I dont have to deal with their crap?

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Heliogabalus
11/11/21 7:40:29 PM
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JBaLLEN66 posted...
Why doesnt op fight them
Im not really a fan of violence.

Considering my grandfathers family was wiped out in the Holocaust, Id say that anyone whos a Holocaust denier is a fucking moron, though :)

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joe40001
11/12/21 1:26:14 AM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
What did I reframe?

There's a subtle but important difference in your framing, what you said:
He's saying it's not real holocaust denial if the person doing so knows they're lying.

This (unlike what I said) supposes that such a group of people exists. My statement made no such assumption.

Secondly, you are somewhat playing a connotation game.

We know the following connotations are true:

Holocaust denier = bad thing

So by reframing what I said as
"A person who knows the holocaust happened but says it didn't anyway isn't a real holocaust denier"

The connotation of that framing is:
"A person who knows the holocaust happened but says it didn't anyway isn't a real [bad thing]"

Obviously such a person would generally be a bad person, but by highlighting how I am making a semantic distinction, your framing can go to imply I am somehow "defending" such behavior, which I obviously wasn't.

So hopefully that answers your question.

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DeadBankerDream
11/12/21 1:38:15 AM
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If you need to write a dictionary to explain how I reframed your singular sentence, I probably didn't.

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joe40001
11/12/21 2:32:14 AM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
If you need to write a dictionary to explain how I reframed your singular sentence, I probably didn't.

That's how those kind of rhetorical tricks work. They are nuanced, they require detailed unpacking, that many don't bother doing.

I will say it's a bit disingenuous on your part to ask for clarification and then use the thoroughness of the clarification as evidence against it's own merit.

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toyota
11/12/21 2:34:47 AM
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Do you mean the jackasses who claim it never happened at all? Or the people who are just investigating the numbers? Because they both seem to get lumped as being holocaust deniers
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