And then Ukraine happened. I realize this is probably the same logic that Holocaust or Sandy Hook deniers use, but it really is fascinating just how many people can be fooled by propaganda or group think. Even when the facts are staring in their faces they just don’t want to hear it.

  • ☭ 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 ☭MA
    21•2 years ago

    I don’t understand why so many people seem to be extremely confident in their uninformed and completely one-sided opinions… the worst thing is the extreme hostility toward dissenting views.

    For example, if someone told me that they thought the Holocaust didn’t happen, I could act in good faith and easily show them primary sources (e.g. documentation from the Nazis themselves), the actually global consensus (unlike anticommunist propaganda, which is far from universally accepted), and how the leaders’ public statements reflected their behaviour (whereas Stalin’s writing and his alleged crimes are completely opposed). But if I say anything positive about a former or current socialist country, I’m a brainwashed genocide-denying conspiracy theorist who needs to read more reputable Western history books.

    Being informed about current events (or allegations) is more difficult in some ways, but easier in others – we have older Western sources debunking their newer claims, we have actual video of what’s being done to the people in the LPR/DPR, we have a fuckton of evidence about what Amerika and other NATO countries have been doing globally for so many decades, etc., but so many people seemingly don’t give a shit

    • @SaddamHussein24
      11•2 years ago

      This. Today i was arguing with a vaushite on Twitter and when i questioned the evidence behind “north korea does genocide” he said “yeah and what if i said where is the evidence the holocaust happened? You cant just say that”. According to these morons, holocaust denial isnt bad because the evidence is overwhelming, no its bad because the official establishment says it happened and you cant question that. Literal NPCs