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[–]Zahn 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

how wide the consensus is that the holocaust happened, it's pretty fucking wide

A widespread belief doesn't define what is "truth". History is bursting with examples of commonly accepted truths ending up being eventually proven false. You will have to use a different methodology to prove your beliefs.

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For sure. And i'm generally the type of person who is for questioning stuff and being skeptical. But we were talking about why i would equate holocaust denying with hating the jews. I'm saying there's generally an overlap between that tiny % of the population that is holocaust deniers and hating jews. And also people are usually uninclined to go against such widespread consensus out of fear of being outcast by society so it says a lot about you that you're willing to go against this consensus. Usually what that says is you have a pretty strong grudge against jews.

[–]Zahn 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This isn't really my "department", but I'm familiar with the subject enough to have observed that most people don't dislike/hate for no reason at all. They have arrived at conclusions whether real or imagined. And that arrival has imbued them with a sense of contempt, and moral revulsion. Perhaps as it is with many things, the truth is somewhere in the middle.