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I have observed two different kinds of revisionists.

The first kind are simply Jew haters. After they say that they don't believe that the Nazis tried to kill all of the Jews, they either imply or say outright that they should have.

The second kind has an Asperger Syndrome like fixation on details. If the true number was 5.4 million or 6.5 million Jewish people killed, they take exception to the "6 million" figure.

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> The first kind are simply Jew haters.

I sadly can't deny that such people exist but it seems profoundly weird to me that anyone could just hate a bunch of random people they've never met. Some sort of wiring bug.

Such people don't hang around the sorts of circles you live in. But in much of the world they are the norm, alas, such as the present Middle East.

It's passed on as oral culture through the family and environment they grow up in, it seems.

Classic pathway for hate

Good point about the fixation-on-details type. However, it is the Jew haters who sometimes get organized and do real damage to the world. Also, nasty politicians can sometimes convert large numbers of people into Jew haters.

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