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Your theoretical examples imply that you think the age range called out in this article headline refers to children, when it's actually 18-29 year olds. These are legal adults that responded to this poll, not kids who may not have yet gone through the requisite history classes. Are you really using belief in the Easter Bunny as a "whatabout" argument to hand-wave away the significantly higher rate of Holocaust denialism among this age range?

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Ok. Fair enough. Strike Easter Buddy and replace it with "Won't get pregnant if you have sex standing up."

As for History class. I remember in HS we never made it to mid 20th century. And nonetheless you're assuming that taking a class will become someone dogma. That's not how hate, propaganda, ignorance, works.

The fact is, The Economist's "argument" is flawed from the start. It's a silly and senseless way to do news / journalism. And no one is catching that? What does that tell us? Yeah, ironic.

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