Trump is evil and we have proof this time
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I can't really debate anyone point to point on the Holocaust. I know what the uh Weisanthal-approved story is, and I am familiar with some of the points of contention of revisionists. Discernment would really take original research, or at least following someone I could trust, and I don't know anybody, and I can't undertake individual research on every topic -- particularly those that are not immediately applicable. I learned a lot about COVID, for instance; didn't spend lockdown reading about the Holocaust.
It's not really ignorance. It's knowing enough to not claim to be an authority. Of course, to be at that point I have to acknowledge that there's two sides.
9/11, well not all the conspiracy theories can be true at once, but I'd not be shocked if something was different from the way the government reported it. The moon I have verified it exists through original research: there is nothing else big enough to block out portions of the sun as I have seen in an eclipse.
You're still not getting it.
You don't need to be an authority on anything to know the holocaust happened, in the same way you don't need to refer to a scientist to understand that the moon exists, nor refer to a 'terrorism expert' to know that 9/11 happened. You accept the latter, but you don't accept the former.
That's what makes Holocaust Denial different. There isn't a "second side". It's a rejection of reality itself. It's the only conspiracy theory built solely off of motivated reasoning.
This is why when you push all the way down the line, and move past the rhetoric, you can eventually get a Holocaust Denier to admit: that they know it happened and it was a good thing as far as they are concerned.