4 ms·
If you say "I don't know about that", or "I'm not sure if that really happened", it's a short walk from tolerating fascists. My country is having a conservative
by b0rsuk 5y ago
If you say "I don't know about that", or "I'm not sure if that really happened", it's a short walk from tolerating fascists. My country is having a conservative/authoritarian turn, and only about 30% votes for the regime. The rest has no opinion or thinks everyone used to be just as bad.
- AnimalMuppet 5y ago> If you say "I don't know about that", or "I'm not sure if that really happened", it's a short walk from tolerating fascists. I strongly disagree. There is an enormous shift from "I question whether Jews were killed" to "Let's go kill Jews". (To avoid misunderstandings and red herrings: Yes, the Holocaust happened, and was very much as horrific as claimed. The evidence is clear, consistent, overwhelming, and almost impossible to deny. And there are almost certainly recruiters who use "just asking questions" to try to recruit people. Nevertheless, "shut up and stop asking" isn't the answer. Instead, the answer is to show evidence, in overwhelming amounts. This may not silence the recruiter, but the recruiter isn't the target of your evidence. The recruitee is.)
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoReplying to myself, because I'm too late to edit: You said "tolerating fascists" rather than "being a fascist". But it's still an enormous shift from "I question whether Jews were killed" to "It's OK that you want to kill Jews".