California School District Under Fire for Holocaust-Denial Assignment

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67. Everything is open to questioning

It's the only way to get answers, after all.

And lucky day, this particular subject is very well-studied, so it has a plethora of damn good concrete answers for pretty much every question you could think of. So let them "just ask questions," there's plenty of reality to go around.

And I will note that there's a difference between Holocaust denialism and say, evolution or climate denialism; Moronic as they are, Holocaust deniers generally stay "within the field." What I mean is, if you were to try to engage ken Ham (or Duane Gish, who lent his name ot the "Gish Gallop) on hte subject of evolution... they're all over the fucking place. You could get something out of developmental biology, you might get something out of scripture, you might get something from Reader's digest, they might try to talk about astrophysics or Islam or who the hell knows what. It's really not worth the effort to engage 'em, as if you present a fact about paleobotany, suddenly they're talking about exoplanets or something and you're going "dafuq?" On the otherh and, engaging a holocaust denier might take you on a weird and roundabout tour of history... but it's still history. Facts you present still smash into their arguments rather handily.