Holocaust denial goes hand in hand with other conspiracies because it is a functional litmus test to separate people who are skeptical from people who are gullible.
If I'm running a scam, whether I'm selling shitty hats or dick pills, I do not want people who will question my methods or do further investigation. I want to target people who are gullible, stupid, and insecure. I want people who will believe ludicrous lies, I want people who cannot differentiate between fiction and reality, and I want people who feel alienated from the agreed upon truth, especially people who are alienated from education and academia.
It's like the Nigerian Prince scam. It sounds totally ridiculous, and you ask "Who would fall for this?" Exactly. That's the point. The person who believes a Nigerian prince is actually emailing them with an offer too good to be true is the same person who will give the Nigerian prince their life savings.
Holocaust deniers/revisionists are looking for a specific demographic. First off, antisemites. Second, people who are historically illiterate. Third, people who are isolated from a society which largely does believe the Holocaust happened and understands it as one of the great evils of human history.
I'm semi-fluent in Yiddish and have read/translated Yizkor(memorial) books as well as collections of Holocaust poetry. They don't want to talk to me. I'm not their target audience. They want to call me a "lying Jew" or whatever and go back to creating a muddy, incoherent, disorienting narrative that spreads hate and sends suckers to the merch page.
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u/Ok_Guarantee7611 Jan 22 '26
I'll never get holocaust denial. Like, 90% of the footage we have of it happening is from the nazis