There is no denying that white supremacy is an engine of the right.
There are some Republican voters who are sympathetic to their party’s ultranationalist turnand don’t believe the party’s attitudes toward issues such as immigration and crime are the products of racial animus. But over and over again, right-wing leaders and thinkers reveal that white supremacism is an engine of this movement.
The latest example comes via an episode of “The Tucker Carlson Show” released this week, in which the former Fox News host interviews podcast host and newsletter writer Darryl Cooper. Carlson, arguably the most influential right-wing nationalist commentator in America, said Cooper “may be the best and most honest popular historian in the United States.” But Cooper has made clear that his intellectual project regarding World War II includes Holocaust revisionism.
It is truly insane to me that the one party in this country has moved into straight-up holocaust denial, but the only thing that will get you labeled an antisemite by either party is suggesting we politely ask Israel to do a little less genocide with the weapons we give them.
A holocaust/genocide studies professor once told me there were two categories of holocaust deniers, and while the former were fools, the latter truly scared him:
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“It didn’t happen.”
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“It wasn’t a holocaust because they didn’t finish the job.”
This is veering into #2 territory when you view these deaths as some sort of portion that had “overcrowding.”
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Alright, so stay with here…
Cooper also framed the slaughter of millions of people, most of them Jewish, as a logistical failure
The article is spreading Holocaust misinformation too. Most of the victims of the Holocaust were not Jewish.
6 million out of 17 million isn’t a majority.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims
It’s fucking infuriating that so many people keep repeating that bullshit. People legit believe it, it’s what we’re taught in schools even. But it’s just propaganda so kids grow up more likely to excuse Israel’s current genocides.
So what is the total amount of soviets that were victims?
I read that. I mean the total that we’re only killed because they were Soviets and not for any other reason, ethnic, sexuality, etc.
And this is the only way you can find anything out?
Asking random people on social media?
It’s taken two hours so far, this is faster than you googling?
Are you not able to?
If it’s that you do t know how or are so bad at it that this is faster. Have you tried asking nicely? May e I cluding “please”?
I just don’t understand what the point is in what you’re doing here…
Ok, fuck right off with that attitude.
This is the same demographic with the Q-anon stuff not shocking. Reality and history isn’t their thing.
Please understand that I did significant work toward the preservation of witness accounts of the Holocaust myself and I know that it all happened from firsthand observation of the evidence.
I’m having a hard time understanding how it matters that Republicans are bad on the Holocaust when the Democrats are currently the ones funding and arming and abetting a genocide. This is whataboutism at its most vile. I don’t want to read another word about revisionism while people in power NOW are allowing it to happen again on their watch. This is bullshit.
when the Democrats are currently the ones funding and arming and abetting a genocide.
This bit of ‘both sides’ is kinda neat. It looks at how much worse it would be under a republican dictatorship and then says the problem is Democrats.
When you were preserving witness accounts, was that from your office in former Leningrad?
Wow, you are a real [expletive removed]. I produced this movie for David Beckman in Cleveland, OH. Our goal was to preserve the accounts of people whom Steven Spielberg had missed in the community before they passed away because they were in their 90’s.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3096952/
I’m accusing the post of both-sidesism. I think we should violently oppose republicans. I think democrats are currently enabling a genocide.
(edit: removed swears so mods don’t upend the conversation)
Your anger should be directed at the military industrial complex.
Trust me I have plenty to go around
Can the two things not be true at once? Could it not possibly be the case that both parties are too far right, but one is so much more extreme that it is not only comfortable with the current narrative but going so far as to rewrite the past in order to support it?
How is it now “whataboutism” to call out these talking heads for engaging in clear-as-day holocaust revisionism? Just because Democrats have the same garbage foreign policy? Is that not whataboutism in and of itself???
Because Gaza is still happening. It doesn’t matter what we remember if we don’t actually stop the genocides. That’s why we preserved that history, so it wouldn’t happen again.
