#politics
It’s a very safe bet that someone who denies a horrific historical event, or denies that it’s horrific, is not neutral about it.
Whether it’s slavery, the Holocaust, or various other invasions and genocides, the person denying it happened INVARIABLY wants it to happen again.
There’s a corollary to this when it comes to extremism. When someone denies that extremism is extreme, this is always because they are themselves extremists.
For example, I had a ridiculous exchange with npub1e3l9yxz58g0f08fy7nue7yuwla6pjyks3kejq5jwvhq752u8pgas3843lg (npub1e3l…43lg), in which they kept insisting that the American far left isn’t “really” far left. From this, we can safely conclude that they are themselves far left.
I’ve had similar experiences, on X-Twitter, with fascists who insisted that Trump’s no fascist. Same thing.
One more corollary is that people who define and identify themselves as opposing one thing also support its opposite.
This is a bit subtle, though. I’m anti-fascist, but I’m not pro-communist. Then again, I don’t define and identify myself as anti-fascist, although of course I am. There’s plenty of room between being a fascist and a communist, and that’s where I am.
A counter-counter-examples are anti-capitalists, who are necessarily pro-communist. After all, if they’re opposed to capitalism, what else is left? There is no middle here.
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