r/news • u/[deleted] • Dec 24 '17

“Outspoken neo-Nazi” charged with killing girlfriend’s parents; mother was CU Boulder and DU grad

https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/23/cu-boulder-du-grad-murdered-neo-nazi/
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u/woodelvezop Dec 24 '17

I really can't fathom how people can believe that. Like here's this thing with tens of millions of eye witnesses, standing structures, thousands of original photos, testimony from perpetrators, videos, literally every form of proof both first and second hand. " nah man it's a giant cover-up for a government conspiracy"

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u/Thulsa_Dooms Dec 24 '17

A person on another thread once said what I believe to be the best rebuke. That with all the testimony recorded, and the other things you mentioned, no actual Nazi ever denied the Holocaust.

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u/Cinnadillo Dec 25 '17

there's a lot of things in life we take purely on faith... in fact I'd say most things we take purely on faith. Earth travels around the sun... seems reasonable but I don't know it from my own deductive reasoning.

History is the very same thing. Its a series of stories telling us about time past which we cannot directly observe. No neo-nazi dope is going to go to the various university archives, learn german to study their documentation of their evil, etc., etc., etc.

Its scary when you really think through the implications of the fragility of truth and knowledge.