How many times have you denounced the using of the term “drinking the kool aid”?
My guess would be never. There were a lot of very innocent souls lost that day. but that joke is just fine.
Seriously? You are comparing Jonestown to the Holocaust? You don’t appear to understand this history of either.
The phrase “Drinking the Kool-Aid” is a bit repugnant based on the origin. It wasn’t even Kool-Aid BTW but Flavor Aid. The phrase however,” suggests that one has mindlessly adopted the dogma of a group or leader without fully understanding the ramifications or implications.” Regardless over 900 hundred people died that day in Jonestown and that isn’t funny, but also understand that many of them willingly drank the cyanide at the direction of the cult leader Jim Jones which gives the phrase some credibility when describing mindless people who willingly swallow whatever thing they are told without critical thinking.
And speaking of critical thinking, you can’t compare that phrase to what Fuentes did with his Cookie Monster analogy and how Fuentes uses it to deny that the Holocaust many not have been all that bad.
In the video, Fuentes does not speak about Jews directly, but about the number of cookies being cooked in ovens. He did this in response to a viewer who asked him in a YouTube comment: “If I take one hour to cook a batch of cookies in Cookie Monster’s 15 ovens working 24 hours a day every day for five years, how long does it take to make 6 million batches of cookies?”
“I don’t know,” Fuentes said in response, before going on a two-minute riff about how the 6 million estimate is way off, and saying that maybe the actual number of batches of cookies baked is between 200,000 and 300,000.
He also jokes about the shadows from the smokestacks of Cookie Monster’s ovens not being visible from aerial photographs, and that the soil beneath the ovens is not really deep enough to account for all the batches of cookies prepared in the ovens. He even suggests that maybe the ovens were used for delousing. During the monologue, throughout which Fuentes displays an ugly smirk, he says, “The math doesn’t seem to add up here.”
So when Fuentes “jokes” about people, Jews mostly but not exclusively, systematically killed in the Nazi death camps and comparing them to cookies, that’s OK but using the phrase “Drinking the Kool-Aid” isn’t. Got it. I think you’ve been drinking something. And if you believe that Fuentes and his groypers are fine upstanding Christian men, perhaps you are the one Drinking the Kool Aid.