OOF. This comes from someone I follow on Facebook; they do a podcast that looks critically at conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, “high strangeness”, etc., so that last of questions they bring up is the sort of thing they would cover (though I don’t know if they’ve actually covered those specific things). But when I read it earlier, I was kind of struck by one of the inclusions on the list of “objectively, provably false statements”… you know, the one with the word starting with H.
That’s a really unfortunate bit of phrasing, though I’ve no doubt that’s all it is; I was listening to their podcast episode about the Protocols while writing this and have no reason to believe they’re a bad person who denies the Holocaust… I’m sure what they meant was something like “Is the Holocaust a hoax?”, cos there’s obviously plentiful evidence that it wasn’t. But putting the question as they actually did—i.e. asking “Did the Holocaust happen?”, whose answer is “yes, OBVIOUSLY”, among a bunch of other questions whose collective answer is “no, OBVIOUSLY”*—was kind of yikes. And I can’t even comment on it cos they’re one of those people you have to be friends with to comment on their posts, so… sigh. Like I said, almost certainly just a very poor choice of words, but my eyebrows are raised even so… I’ll be watching that one a bit more carefully now.
* I mean, I’m assuming that’s the answer to the “are Black people secret Cherokee?” question, which is one I’ve never heard before. Given that some Native tribes did actually own black slaves, that could be… embarrassing. Or something.
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