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      “The Black Book of Communism puts the death toll under communism at 100 million, however these numbers are suspect. Many believe the true number to be much higher, perhaps as many as 5 billion. We may never know the truth of this due to communist suppression of information, and must keep our minds open to the concept that Stalin killed everyone who ever lived or ever will live.”

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    THIS is what a Jew Lover LOOKS LIKE! Thank GOD Grok isn’t asking People to Stop BOMBING HOSPITALS because THAT would be ANTI JEW!

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    AI is great at imitating human speech saying ‘The scale of the tragedy is undeniable’ immediately after a paragraph denying the scale of the tragedy is pretty spot on imitating real posting.

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    Idk what the original prompt was but it’s take on Aisha is somewhat charitable, no? It is pretty hard to put a number on her age, and cultural norms around age were different back then, as it says.

    I get that it’s often used as an islamophobic talking point, but in terms of the purported reality it hasn’t said anything untrue or unfair.

    As a sidenote, I’m kind of coming round on Reddit atheists. It’s a shame so many of them turned into bioessentialists and fax n logic type guys, but I preferred them to this new tradcath stuff.

    Religion really is a scourge that holds up so much bigotry - that to its believers is completely unquestionable. It’s such a thought terminator. Whilst these Reddit atheists used to spout debunkable science, I always found them on some level reachable because they were operating on a reachable logic - facts did mean something, even if theirs were often warped. Now Christians and Muslims and to a lesser extent Jews, just say guhh it’s unholy it’s demonic or whatever. It’s the dark ages again.

    Jewish, Christian, Islam, all these abrahamic faiths are part of the same blob, and I think these days Islam often gets a bit of a shielding from leftists because real islamophobia is so prevalent and is such a powerful psyop - plus there’s a high coincidence of anti imperialist sentiment in Islamic countries (due to the various empires pillaging of them for 200 years or more).

    In of itself, and within leftist circles I feel it’s fair to say that Islam has much in common with Christianity and Judaism, which is to say that it’s also unscientific dogma that has an innate level of conservatism within its sacred texts.

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    okay but who just hears about the holocaust and is like “wow that sounds pretty serious, let me go on twitter dot com and ask Grok the AI assistant about it”?

    while this stuff is bad i cant really imagine its actually very damaging. its just reinforcing what antisemites want to hear while everyone else on earth is like “wow not sure about that grok”

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      You’re overestimating how good people are at remembering historical information they only half-learned in high school, especially now.

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        i disagree, we have all been learning about the holocaust since well before high school. i remember them making us wear gold stars like holocaust victims in third grade to teach us about it, plus all of the films about it or the mentions of the scale of horrors in lots of media and popular culture since it happened

        the holocaust isnt some thing people just forget about imo

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          It depends. Outside of the US and Europe I really think it sadly doesn’t get quite that level of impression. I guess I’m in a weird position because I did do the gold star stuff in my school, but it was an American style private school. Most places were definitely not doing that.

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            i went to an american public school so i can only speak to my experience but did briefly live in denmark and at least at my little cousin’s school it was a thing they did as well. couldnt really say otherwise you could be right