I'm Jewish, and I am hesitant to weigh in here because nostr posts are not deletable, but what I’m going to say is what I really think:
1. People should feel free to question the Holocaust, the moon landing and anything else about which they are genuinely skeptical. I am wary of bad actors who only post “Holocaust denial” because they have been psy-opped into thinking “it’s the Joos!” about every fucking problem and deficiency in their own lives, but if someone *geniunely* is skeptical, they should feel absolutely free to question it.
2. I never made “but the Holocaust!” part of my identity, even though I remember as a kid people trying to get me to worry about it and fear the next one. That too is a psyop — to get Jews to think the Holocaust confers some special victim status on you that you can use as a shield and a club against legitimate criticism. I detest the “teacher’s pet” status the US Government is trying to create re Israel with its retarded anti-semitism laws that plainly violate the 1st Amendment. I think it’s wrong, and also bad for Jews because everyone hates the teacher’s pet.
3. What’s going on in Gaza seems really bad to me. I don’t know for sure because there is so much propaganda around *everything* these days, it’s hard to know the truth for sure. Both propaganda from the Israelis, some of whom seem to push October 7 as Holocaust 2.0 that justifies anything, but also from legacy media and leftists who uncritically repeat talking points too. As I said, the reality seems really bad to me, and I don’t support the Israeli government in any way, shape or form. But the ethos of “question everything” should apply to that too.
4. Even if what’s going on in Gaza could properly be called a genocide — again, I don’t know for sure — that does not reflect at all on regular Jews who find killing innocent people abhorrent any more than some insane black guy killing white people should reflect on regular black people who don't know the guy and have nothing to do with him. Everyone is an individual. There are no "blacks" or Jews" in that sense unless you are some kind of collectivist.
5. I've seen a big uptick in overt Jew hate online, and even people I know in my daily life (in Portugal) are saying shit they would not have said to me a few years ago. Maybe they were already thinking that and just feel emboldened to say it now, but I had to remind a guy I know here (in Portugal) who asked me about "The Rothschilds" that I don't have a fucking special Jew phone that the Rothschilds use to let me in on the plan for world domination. Told him I get my information from the internet just like he does.
6. I personally think the Holocaust happened for all the reasons most people think it happened, but I would not say it's implausible that it was exaggerated due to incentives, or impossible that it's just a complete psyop. After covid, absolutely *everything* is on the table now to be questioned, and I don't begrudge people questioning it. I don't really care to go down that rabbit hole further than I already have not because I'm afraid of what I might find, but because it's not part of my identity, and it doesn't interest me that much. Believe whatever you want with respect to it, I really don't care. And I mean that, i.e., even if it turned out the Holocaust were a complete psyop, it would make zero difference in my life personally. I don't trade on it, and I don't identify myself around it.
7. To repeat: everyone is an individual: there are no "blacks" "Jews" "whites" or "Muslims". Each person is responsible for his own conduct (and maybe the conduct of his kids to a certain age) and not responsible for the conduct of anyone else, whether they share the accident of common ancestry or not.
8. I care only about the truth. If the Holocaust were fake -- again, I don't think it is -- I would want people to know it were fake, irrespective of what that means or what I previously believed. There is no benefit to keeping up a lie. So I think people should absolutely question it if they have genuine questions and are not just going along with the mania du jour. An open market for speech and questioning is the only way to get to the truth.
9. If someone tries to attack me or my family personally over being Jewish or being unvaccinated, for example, or even for supporting *earnest* questioning of the Holocaust, fuck them. I will defend myself both verbally and physically if necessary. I make no apologies for who I am or what I believe. The only apology I would make is where it's owed, and that's only in cases where I personally did something wrong. Being of Jewish descent or refusing to inject myself with pharmaceutical conglomerate poison is not wrong, and anyone who tries to make either of those things wrong -- is a douchebag, and I lose respect for them. And I have seen many such cases of both.
