Posted on 12/11/2023 5:54:24 AM PST by Red Badger
Last week, a new Economist/YouGov poll found one in five young Americans stated that the Holocaust is a… The post Poll: 20% of Young People Say Holocaust is “Myth,” TikTok Users More Likely to be Antisemitic first appeared on The Foreign Desk | by Lisa Daftari.
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Anew Economist/YouGov poll found one in five young Americans believe the Holocaust is a myth while nearly 30% believe Jews wield too much power in America.
According to the poll last week, 20% of Americans ages 18 to 29 agreed with the statement, “The Holocaust is a myth,” while a greater percentage agreed with the statement that the Holocaust “has been exaggerated.”
Thirty percent of respondents said they “did not know whether the Holocaust is a myth,” while 28% adopted the anti-Semitic statement that Jews “wield too much power in America.”
The poll noted that Holocaust denial spanned throughout “all levels of education” while noting that “social media might play a role” in worsening antisemitism. The findings from the poll noted a recent Generation Lab survey, which found that “young adults who used TikTok were more likely to hold antisemitic beliefs.”
“It is a perfect storm out there,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean and director of Global Social Action for the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Cooper explained to The Foreign Desk the various factors at play regarding the spread of antisemitism among young Americans: “A state’s policy that promotes Holocaust denial and denigration of the 6 million Jewish victims (Iranian regime); A generation brought up on social media—including and especially Tik Tok which leads to Shoah (Holocaust) denial and misappropriation of the Shoah, including by politicians—seems everyone is compared to Hitler. A generation with information glut but little perspective; no online librarian, no filters, little collective memory back to the 20th Century.”
The Economist/YouGov poll found that Holocaust denial decreased among Americans older than 29. Around 10% of Americans ages 30 to 44 say that the Holocaust is a myth or exaggerated. The poll found antisemitism prevalent in other demographic groups. Twenty-seven percent of black respondents and 19% of Hispanics agreed with the statement that “Jews have too much power in America,” while 13% of white respondents expressed such sentiments.
“The fact that we are losing the witnesses with an unassailable moral GPS–the last of the Shoah survivors, their liberators, and bystanders are leaving the world stage every day. The 24/7 drumbeat of the lurid lie online that what Nazi Germany did to the Jews in the 1930s and 40s Israel is doing to Palestinians today. The failure of academic elites to acknowledge and teach there is evil in the world—with the Nazi Holocaust as a paradigm,” Cooper told The Foreign Desk.
The Economist/YouGov poll comes as antisemitism in elite college campuses throughout the United States has drastically increased. Last week, House Republicans confronted presidents from MIT, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), who provided lawmakers with inadequate answers on dealing with antisemitism on campus and protecting American Jewish students.
During the hearing, all three university presidents said that organizations and students who called for the genocide of Jews don’t necessarily violate university codes of conduct.
Following the hearing, the president of UPenn resigned over the weekend after facing backlash from members of Congress, students, and faculty. Private donors to these elite universities have pulled millions of dollars in donations and gifts.
Since the Oct. 7 massacre, various progressive groups on college campuses have rallied behind Hamas’s attack, calling for violence against Israel and Jews while chanting slogans such as “Globalize the Intifada” and “Long live the Intifada.”
Cooper notes that for many young Americans, “historical facts don’t mean as much as feelings, influencers.”
According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), antisemitic incidents in the U.S. rose by about 400% in slightly over two weeks since the war occurred. Jewish students have reported instances where they have felt unsafe in their dorms, classes, and campuses, facing death threats from antisemitic speech on campus.
“Society cannot afford to repeat the tragedies of the past. Simon Wiesenthal, the late Holocaust Survivor and Nazi hunter said this back in 1980 (way before the internet) when asked if the Holocaust could happen again said: ‘If you have a crisis in society+ organized hate+ technology—-Anything is possible! Seems like we have arrived at a crossroads,” he added.
Yes, that one greatly deserves to be on this thread.
+1
Governments are made up of people. Evil people............
Exactly. And governments can be VERY EFFICIENT at murdering people by the millions — Hitler and the Nazi government, Mao — Commie Government, Stalin — Commie Government, Pol Pot — Commie Government.
American Public Schools have already destroyed this country. The GOP needs to address this as a top priority.
How many "adults" on this forum know about it?
Well put.
Ummm ...
"Holodomor" refers to the genocide of Ukrainians at the hands of communist Russians.
I've never heard a specific name for the Armenian genocide. It, too, should be remembered.
"Never Again" goes 'way beyond the atrocities of the Third Reich.
Let’s start calling them what they are: NAZI’s.
I used to wonder, then years ago I concluded there had to be a LOT of underlying hatred of the Jews for reasons that escape me. Since Oct.7, I realize it's still here.
I have extended family who liberated a few camps. They would shake talking about it.
However, it isn’t “real” to the next generation. We were made to watch films of the camps in school. That stopped. We had elders who had been in the war. They died.
Generations move on. It is as best a note in history. Same with JFK or 911. Or even Peral Harbor.
Which is why history repeats, sadley.
But mostly Slavic people (Polish, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Russian ...) Also, I have read in several places that POWs taken on the Eastern Front were treated much worse than POWs taken in the West. Why? Under the NASDAP's racial theories, Americans, Canadians, British, were people. Russians (etc.) were "untermenschen".
20% of young people can’t deal with reality it’s why the love tic toc.
20% of young people can’t deal with reality it’s why they love ...and VR Technology..............
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire..............
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Yup. Detachment from Truth is very dangerous.
“You can avoid reality, however you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” - Ayn Rand..............
But if my only source of information about the Holocaust was public school teachers, I too would tend to doubt it.
Actually one of the best shows that documented the Holocaust were the series, The Winds of War and War And Remembrance.
Die Wannseekonferenz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Ug_MXToEE
(IMHO I preferred this to ‘Conspiracy’)
I read somewhere that after the US Army liberated the concentration camps where the holocaust occurred, they forced every citizen in the nearby German towns to into the camps and see them up close and personal.
There are hundreds of personal testimonies in the achieves in hundreds of libraries that are more than convincing. The disbelievers are simply ignorant.
ever comes up with this kind of garbage, I will offer to take her on a trip to Munich.
There, we will visit Dachau, which I have done in the past.
Visiting that memorial, and the mass graves and crematorums, etc....completely changed my life.
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