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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Wouldn't this be considered a form of Holocaust denial, which would make Trump supporters Holocaust-denier supporters?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean, a very large percentage of them are holocaust deniers already.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

I am gonna ask the German state attorney I know what his take is on that next time I speak to him. But from my view, yeah that could already be a crime

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Remember when Sean Spicer claimed that the Nazis didn’t use chemical weapons? Or how conspicuously absent Jews were from the 2017 International Holocaust Remembrance Day statement?

Holocaust denial is a tricky beast too. The biggest proponents of it don’t believe what they are saying - it works as their “Big Lie.” Once someone swallows the idea that millions didn’t die, for some reason it’s easy to get them to believe that millions must die. (And that specific phrase is a meme for the hardcore - “millions must die.”)

But in “mainstream” politics they’re duplicitous fuckers that are just blowing on the dog whistles, trying to keep the plausible deniability.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

You are just considering this (likely) possibility now?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Not to mention that among their rationale for attacking Palestinian support has been stopping antisemitism

Unsurprising to hear that they were projecting about something else