The first time I ever came across Holocaust denial shit was on Youtube over a decade ago. From looking at conspiracy crap on there, I kept getting recommended videos by David Irving "the whole truth and nothing but the truth". It was a huge eye opener to me that there were even people who deny the Holocaust even happened and this stuff was getting millions of views on Youtube years ago.
Holocaust denial was ultimately the end of a rabbit hole for my high school friends who got into conspiracy stuff at a young age and had been listening to Alex Jones since they were 15-16 years old. It shaped their world view and what will always hurt me is that they came so close to understanding that capitalism was the problem but were too brainwashed by conspiracy stuff telling them that it was some boogie man instead. I remember my best friend went from Alex Jones to David Icke, and then kept searching for something like a harder drug with this stuff. By the time we were both 22 years old he found that harder drug in holocaust denial and became a full blown neo-nazi. I haven't spoken to him in 6 years.
The first time I ever came across Holocaust denial shit was on Youtube over a decade ago. From looking at conspiracy crap on there, I kept getting recommended videos by David Irving "the whole truth and nothing but the truth". It was a huge eye opener to me that there were even people who deny the Holocaust even happened and this stuff was getting millions of views on Youtube years ago.
Holocaust denial was ultimately the end of a rabbit hole for my high school friends who got into conspiracy stuff at a young age and had been listening to Alex Jones since they were 15-16 years old. It shaped their world view and what will always hurt me is that they came so close to understanding that capitalism was the problem but were too brainwashed by conspiracy stuff telling them that it was some boogie man instead. I remember my best friend went from Alex Jones to David Icke, and then kept searching for something like a harder drug with this stuff. By the time we were both 22 years old he found that harder drug in holocaust denial and became a full blown neo-nazi. I haven't spoken to him in 6 years.