Isn't holocaust denial taught in Saudi schools, along with the Protocols? Or is that just Debkaesque propaganda?
What most people, whether educated or not, believe is based on one thing -- peer pressure. Especially if they are not specialists in that area. That's why practically everyone in the United States who isn't a student of Soviet history believes that Stalin had 20, 30, 40, 50 million people executed (as opposed to the real circa 1 million), even though it's bullshit. It's what you're supposed to believe. If you live in a society in which holocaust denial is commonly accepted, unless you actually investigate the subject for yourself, you will be a holocaust denier.
--- On Mon, 6/22/09, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
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> It's also a question, mind you. It could be that
> they're not. It's an empirical question.
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