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by simonblack 920 days ago
More accessible knowledge on the part of today's youth means that they see the Holocaust as 'nothing special'.

Everything that the Germans did to the Jews in the Holocaust is no different from what the Jews are doing, and have been doing to others for decades. Hence 'nothing special' about the Holocaust.

It took the Germans roughly a generation, about 30 years, to escape the conflation of Germans and 'Nazis'. It's taken the Russians a generation, roughly 30 years, to escape the conflation of Russians and 'Commies'. It will take at least 30 years for the Jews to escape the conflation of Jews and 'Israeli Zionists'.