#tw Holocaust denial

[crystalsandbubbletea]

Why tf is Harry Potter trending? Didn't we literally witness JK Rowling going full holocaust denial?

(Screenshots yanked from Google)

[very-uncorrect]

The venn diagram between terfs and neonazis is a circle

[celestiastarshine]

So I just found out from Essence of Thought that JK Rowling has gotten worse. Which doesn't surprise me, but I find it plenty abhorrent for obvious reasons.

TW: Nazis, eugenics, antisemitism, Holocaust denial, and transmisia are discussed in the video. If these topics trigger you, please protect your peace.

(TERFS and JK Rowling supporters DNI)

[noonetoldmeineededausername]

I haven't seen this on tumblr yet but JK Rowling is doing holocaust denial on twitter

[tired-and-unjellied]

you know it's bad on twitter when you agree with a Republican voter, a HP fanfic writer likes your comment, and a holocaust denier follows you

anyway, time to tell chatGP—erm, twitter moderation that those comments I reported are indeed racist (it goes both way; Islamophobia and antisemitism)

[thefirsthogokage]

PSA from a Jew who doesn't support the state of israel - both in the illegal government's actions and existence of the state entirely - and knows that saying that isn't antisemitic, here's an actual antisemite that you might want to block:

As always, th most Jewish thing we Jews can do is stand up for Palestinians and against their genocide at the hands of the antisemitic state of israel that is murdering Palestinian Jews too.

[bucky-boychik-barnes]

Searching for Jewish Bucky resources on Tumblr and somehow Tumblr search scrolls me to a post where someone is trying to argue that the Holocaust didn't happen in the MCU.

So that happened.

[doomed-jester]

Hey, @staff what about my likes made you think I would want to see Holocaust denial on my dash?

[truthdarespinbottles]

Tw: antisemitism, holocaust denial

In telling my cousin all about my bigoted co-teacher got fired but idk why yet, I remembered that this lady believes that the 6 million figure is an exaggeration and that the Holocaust "wasn't as bad as people say"

Which is why I chose a WWII novel to read with the 8th graders and spent a whole day explaining what exactly the Holocaust was and why jokes about it and/or Hitler aren't acceptable. And my co teacher was silently STEAMING in anger and I loved every moment of it. Love to tell Nazis and antisemites they're full of shit.

[transenby-confessions]

tw rowling, harry potter, and holocaust denial

each time i see ppl mention they are harry potter fans, i get kinda nervous and unsafe? especially when the one who says that is queer. yeah, the author =/= their art, but i just can't do anything about it, i don't feel safe with hp fans especially after rowling denying holocaust. i can't separate harry potter from jkr now

Submitted 12/08/24

[yuinterrobangapologist]

I think everyone should watch Denial, directed by Mick Jackson and David Hare.

I think its important that as JK Rowling threatens these suits, we take a look into how these suits have played out in the past. I think its important we understand what strategies Holocaust Deniers have used in libel suits before, why they failed then, and how we can be sure quash them again.

Obviously, this is a movie, not a how-to-win-a-trial-in-high-court guide for lawyers. But its important that those of us are having our genocides denied that the good guys have won before. It is important to understand that not only are we right, but history acknowledged us as right.

If you are queer, and the ongoing cultural genocide of mandating queer people out of existence in the English Speaking Western world is taking a toll on you, I want you to know that people like Rowling have existed long before this, and other groups who've had to defend themselves have won then, and we can win now.

[mariesoliver]

Guy on a dating app said his favorite movies are ww2 movies. That's gotta be a 🚩 right

[jewish-vents]

Six million of us died. My ancestors were either slaughtered, separated from their cultures and families, or traumatized for life. Yet people still speculate what the 'bad ending' of WWII would be. How is this ending not bad enough?

↑ this. so many people have speculated "what if Hitler won" and like... he's not some cartoon villain of world domination, he was an actual leader who lead a very serious and devastating genocide.

6 million Jews dead, entire families and histories wiped, thousands of books burned to ash. is this not bad enough for you? or is it only the "bad ending" when it starts affecting you as well?

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[applesauce42069]

With people like Candace Owens spreading misinformation about medical experiments at Auschwitz, it is important to be literate in this aspect of Holocaust history.

TW below the cut for: medical experimentation and malpractice, forced sterilization, antisemitism, anti-roma and sinti racism, discussion of concentration camps and the Holocaust. I will not include any photos. My source for everything is this book, published by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum.

There were more Nazi "doctors" at Auschwitz than I will be able to cover in this post. It is important to note that these "doctors" did not just perform experiments, but they also played a direct role in the genocide of the Jews at Auschwitz by participating in "selections." During these "selections," prisoners or prospective prisoners were chosen to be sent to the gas chambers. I say prospective prisoners because a selection usually took place at arrival upon the camp, with most children, the elderly, and anyone unfit for work, or for some people,just because, were sent immediately to the gas chambers without even being registered in the camp. This is a process that is unique to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Josef Mengele is by far the most famous SS "doctor" at Auschwitz. He was the head physician of the sector of Auschwitz II - Birkenau which held Roma and Sinti families, before the camp was "liquidated" which mean that every man, woman and child in it were sent to the gas chambers. Mengele performed experiments related to twins, people with dwarfism, and a disease called noma (don't look it up its gross).

Lorenc Andreas Menasche and his twin sister were experimented on by Josef Mengele. Menasche testified about undergoing experimentation with his sister:

"They also gave us injections all over our bodies. As a result of these injections, my sister fell ill. Her neck swelled up as a result of a severe infection. They sent her to the hospital and operated on her without anesthetic in primitive conditions"

Elzbieta Piekut-Warszawska, an Auschwitz prisoner forced to assist with Mengele's experiments, describes experiments on Jewish twins:

"Drops were also put into their eyes. I did not see the procedure itself, since they took the children into the next room. Some pairs of children received drops in both eyes, and others only in one. I was ordered to observed the reactions, and not to intervene in any way in case of any changes... The results of these practices were very painful for the victims. They suffered from severe swelling of the eyelids, a burning sensation, and intense watering of hte eyes"

Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Hungarian Jew, was also forced to assist Dr. Mengele. He describes being forced to perform autopsies on a pair of "small twins" who:

"... died [were killed] simultaneously... Their death makes it possible to carry out autopsies on them, intended to solve the mystery of reproduction."

Nyiszli says that Mengele was interested in twins with the aim of "increas[ing] the birth rate of the 'higher race'"

At the same time, two separate "doctors," Carl Clauberg and Horst Schumann, were performing sterilization experiments on Jewish prisoners in order to find an effective method of mass sterilization.

Clauberg's experiments involved introducing chemicals into the reproductive organs of Jewish women. Alina Białostocka, an Auschwitz prisoner who was forced to assist Clauberg testified that

"[the] procedure was carried out brutally, and often caused complications"

When it "worked," the procedure left women forcibly sterilized for life.

Horst Schumann's experiments involved the use of x-ray on male and female genitalia. According to Felicja Pleszowska, an Auschwitz prisoner forced to assist with experiments, Schumann's experiments were

"very painful and dangerous to life. There were frequent cases of men dying immediately after such procedures"

From the combined victims of these two men, only very few individuals survived.

Eduard Wirths, Friedrich Entress, Helmuth Vetter, Fritz Klein, Werner Rhode, Hans Wilhem Konig, Victor Capesius and Bruno Weber all tested pharmaceuticals on Auschwitz prisoners on behalf of companies like Bayer (which still exist and operate).

I cannot stress enough the mortality rate of all the medical experiments that took place in Auschwitz. I cannot stress enough the harm done to those who survived. I cannot stress enough the fact that the information I have provided here is just the tip of the iceberg, and that these experiments were VERY well documented BY THE NAZIS THEMSELVES.

This is horrifying. This is real. And we cannot let people insult the memory of these horrors by manipulating historical fact for selfish gain.

[date-a-jew-suggestions]

Oh no, the author of my favorite fantasy book series, White Wizard Boy and the Goblin Bankers’ Evil Hooked Nose is engaging in holocaust denial?? Who could have known??????

[germiyahu]

When you try to make the legacy of the Holocaust a political favor done to Jews, you are paving the road to Holocaust denial. You're even planting nice trees on the boulevard!

To the historically illiterate Westerner, the true sincere belief is that Israel was "gifted" to the Jews as an apology for the Holocaust. This is actually a quite ingenious mental strategy to handle the cognitive dissonance of both wholeheartedly believing the society you live in was the "hero" of the story, but also that Western society is morally bankrupt and worthless.

See the West saved the Jews from the Nazis, but they also severely blundered by rewarding Jewish suffering with the state of Israel. It's clever. You can feel good about being the hero but also curse your own society for turning around and doing something that you'll argue was even worse in the long run (and they have been saying it's worse).

But then, it gets better! Since Israel is seen as an extension of Europe, and arm of European ideology and interest, it can be argued that the West had good intentions when they magnanimously decided to give Jews someone else's homeland. But they could never have predicted how brutal, how violent, how racist, how genocidal, the Israelis would end up being. You can curse the West but acknowledge it's not really their fault, because then it's not really your fault either.

All this context of the Holocaust being a "lesson to learn" or a precursor to some political reward for the Jews, that Jews have always been crafty and Westerners gullible... it's already on the precipice for those with conspiracy oriented minds. And this is already true and we've all seen it on social media. To those who think the Israel was a reward for the Holocaust, they think that the Holocaust warranted a "reward" in the first place. They can switch those around, and start thinking the Holocaust was a pretext to Israel. They can think that the Holocaust was exaggerated to wring more sympathy from the Europeans. They can think that the Holocaust was staged to trick the West into enacting the Jews' grand plan.

All it takes when you're at this point thinking of the Holocaust as transactional, is a genuine Neo Nazi, or perhaps a Hamas simp, to come along and say "Isn't it suspicious though? Don't you think there are inconsistencies? You should really check out..." and due to the coincidences and incorrect narratives that you made up in your brain, that have no basis in reality, you just might consider hearing them out.

So no, the Holocaust is not being weaponized or hijacked, for any reason. It was a historical event that happened. There are no lessons for the victims of all people to learn. There was no divine intervention or grand conspiracy to make the Holocaust about anything, or use it to bring about some political goal. You want there to be one or all of these things, because it justifies your preconceived notions about Jews.

So if a person is at this point, thinking the Holocaust was transactional, thinking that Israel was a reward, they're already on the road to Holocaust denial. And at this time in the Zeitgeist, they are way more likely than normal to go down that road, readily and eagerly. So be careful, be more cognizant if you actually care about the legacy of this genocide, about honoring its victims and its survivors and their descendants.