• sweatersocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    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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      4 months ago

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

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        4 months ago

        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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          4 months ago

          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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            4 months ago

            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