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t3rmit3 , to U.S. News in One in five young Americans think the Holocaust is a myth

This is the logical outcome of a certain party both pushing an identity of male-dominance based on toxicly masculine characteristics, and who also cozies up to White Supremacist orgs like the Proud Boys.

The GOP is and has always been a fertile recruiting ground for white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups, and the “manosphere” has accelerated the spread of their core rhetoric (which includes Holocaust denialism) geometrically.

drwho ,
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Don’t forget successfully making editorial demands of publishers:

gregorum , to U.S. News in One in five young Americans think the Holocaust is a myth
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GOP: mwahahaha… excellent!

ReallyKinda , to U.S. News in One in five young Americans think the Holocaust is a myth

Wish they linked to the poll they mention—can’t seem to find it on yougov.

Brussels5728 ,

Funny, just did the same thing. Crazy they are claiming this without giving the numbers.

Hypx ,
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The claimed figures are arguably too clean. Wouldn't be surprising if it was a bad/fake poll. If 1/5 of young people were really Holocaust deniers, we'd absolutely hear about those types of people all the time.

essellburns ,

I’m gonna hope this is one of those bad polls with bad results

ReallyKinda ,

I doubt it. Probably has to do with incomplete/bad education. I imagine we would average similarly badly when asked about other WWII era trivia.

Here’s an article on Holocaust knowledge across the US from 2020: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2020/01/22/what-americans-know-about-the-holocaust/

I was educated in the US public school system in the mid 2010s and I felt like history class was 1/4 American slavery, 1/4 trail of tears, 1/4 revolutionary war, and 1/4 holocaust across middle and high school. Apparently that’s not normal, or the other kids weren’t absorbing anything.

AngrilyEatingMuffins ,

The other kids had parents dropping poison in their ears

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