The thing that makes no sense to me about holocaust denial is that it’s not hard at all to believe it happened, especially when considering all of the other atrocities of World War 2 that were occurring simultaneously. Multiple genocides have happened before, during, and after that. It’s well within the bounds of human action to do such a thing. So, what is the real motive behind holocaust denial? In all cases, it seems to go hand in hand with outright antisemitism. I don’t think I’ve ever heard the argument from someone who does not consider themselves to be antisemitic. I’m generally curious how the holocaust denial camp would address this.

This is not an invitation for anyone to defend all of the reasons why they are antisemitic, but to defend holocaust denial from a completely objective perspective. It seems to me that fully denying that the holocaust ever happened is an irrational overreaction to the realization that Western democracies are also evil propaganda machines who lie to us about everything, and also perpetrate their own genocides. Just because one team is bad, doesn’t mean the opposing team is good.