This is an incredibly disappointing take. I’ve studied the Holocaust for a quarter century. The prelude to genocide is always demonization of the “other.” The Nazis could never have started, much less sustained, a campaign of persecution leading to genocide without it. 1/https://twitter.com/michaelshermer/status/1380974827595390979 …
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Every genocide starts this way. People don’t just decide one day to start persecuting/slaughtering their neighbors. It takes a lot to get them to do that. It took the Nazis several years even to get to Kristallnacht, and a couple more years plus war to get to the gas chambers. 3/
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It took an unrelenting campaign of hate speech and demonization lasting years to lay the groundwork for the Holocaust. 4/
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Mr. Shermer once did good work on the Holocaust and Holocaust denial. His book on Holocaust denial, Denying History, was excellent and inspired me. So why the disconnect? 5/
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How could he have refuted Holocaust deniers two decades ago but not grasp the key role of hate speech and conspiracy theories (e.g., Germany would have won WWI if not for being “stabbed in the back” by Jews and Communists) in laying the groundwork? Puzzling. 6/
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@deborahlipstadt or@AuschwitzMuseum can elaborate. Have you seen this take before? 7/7Show this thread
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Sufficient threat THAT. Damned autocorrect...
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Truth! Free speech like personal freedom, needs limits for all people to be equally protected.
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The “pro life” movement used to warn about using words to demonize or dehumanize persons, as it was done in Nazi Germany... Then Trump & COVID came along & much or most of it BECAME the anti vaccine, pro eugenics, anti-life movement.
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