it's hard to know what the comments here really represent - people naively thinking they have anonymity over the internet and can escape the bounds of political correctness by posting here, or just a lunatic fringe. see, this is why libertarians get weirded out by all this culturally enforced self-censorship. it doesn't eliminate racial bias. it just sweeps it under the rug, where it's allowed to gestate in a way that nobody can really measure until it explodes. i think the fringe idea is more likely. but it's honestly hard to say, because it's just so quieted.

i think there's a deeper concern, from a ruling elite perspective. i maintain a level of agnosticism about this stuff; the reality is that i can't prove this stuff did or did not happen, and the preponderance of evidence is pretty clear that it's reasonable to be skeptical. it's simply not coherent to question the official narratives on syria, yugoslavia and vietnam just to start with (as a fact-based analysis necessitates), but to draw the line on germany as though it's beyond question. that's just not clear thinking. it's easy to paint yourself into this awful space by pointing this out. but this is the fact of it: i have no idea what happened 40 years before i was born, and there's simply not a source that can explain it to me that i can trust. agnosticism is the logical conclusion. one should not attack me for this, one should realize that it is the inevitable conclusion of seventy plus years of american foreign policy built on staged attacks, secret wars and just balls out lies. if somebody lies to you every day for fifty years, why should you believe what he told you fifty one years ago? don't go after me for this, go after the state.....

but, that's just it. whether the motives for invading germany were containing the soviets or not, and whatever actually happened there, the liberation of auschwitz is the year zero of the american empire. whether it's myth or reality, it's the founding myth of the empire. the reason this gets so much attention four, five, six times a year is that this needs to be enforced. it defines the state, as the state defines itself.

for people to increasingly question the validity of the holocaust is consequently to increasingly question the foundation of the american empire. this has deep consequences.