I think it's frowned upon because many "Holocaust deniers" claim that the extermination of Jews is a partially/completely fabricated narrative in order for Jewish people to gain sympathy and advance agendas.
When you think of it like that, it's quite an offensive accusation.
And there is more than enough evidence that it happened. Auschwitz and all the other concentration/death camps weren't just built (complete with gas chambers that are still there today) just for show, or secretly built by Jews to push a very big lie.
On top of this, you have the testimonials from survivors, documents from the prison camps, and probably very accurate censuses of how many Jews were in Germany (and surrounding countries) Pre-WW2 and how many were there after. It has also been found that descendants of Holocaust survivors are much more susceptible to trauma-based mental illness, as they can inherit a traumatized mindset being raised by (no other word for it really) completely broken parents and grandparents...
And I think that last point is why it's considered so offensive to some. You're a Jewish person, and you've grown up seeing your grandparents mentally destroyed by PTSD; having panic attacks, sudden eratic changes in mood, hypervigilence, extreme fears about the future... and then you go out or online and you hear people say this about The Holocaust being a lie/exaggeration? it's so wrong and fucked up.
Is it normal that I don't believe details of the Holocaust?
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I think it's frowned upon because many "Holocaust deniers" claim that the extermination of Jews is a partially/completely fabricated narrative in order for Jewish people to gain sympathy and advance agendas.
When you think of it like that, it's quite an offensive accusation.
And there is more than enough evidence that it happened. Auschwitz and all the other concentration/death camps weren't just built (complete with gas chambers that are still there today) just for show, or secretly built by Jews to push a very big lie.
On top of this, you have the testimonials from survivors, documents from the prison camps, and probably very accurate censuses of how many Jews were in Germany (and surrounding countries) Pre-WW2 and how many were there after. It has also been found that descendants of Holocaust survivors are much more susceptible to trauma-based mental illness, as they can inherit a traumatized mindset being raised by (no other word for it really) completely broken parents and grandparents...
And I think that last point is why it's considered so offensive to some. You're a Jewish person, and you've grown up seeing your grandparents mentally destroyed by PTSD; having panic attacks, sudden eratic changes in mood, hypervigilence, extreme fears about the future... and then you go out or online and you hear people say this about The Holocaust being a lie/exaggeration? it's so wrong and fucked up.