It’s ironic in that direction, but makes sense the other way. “We need a strongman to purge all the non-white people keeping us down! Wait, you’re saying someone tried that, and not only didn’t it usher in a millennium of utopia, it was one of the most damaging and terrible things in history? No, that must be made up.”
I mean, without that kind of deliberate ignorance, you’re probably going to figure out you’re in the wrong because Christ is it ever obvious you’re in the wrong, how is it humanity ever learned to make rocks sharp and yet is still struggling with this one. Ahem.
I guess, on the other hand, not everyone looks back at Manifest Destiny as so awful. Its cruelty barely even needs denial; forgetting it is part of the society it made. It’s only because its eastern cousin Lebensraum didn’t have the same chance to normalize itself that holocaust deniers stand out from other white supremacists, or Arthur Jones seems any worse than the rest of the MAGA party.
Have you ever noticed that the worst anti-Semites are the ones who don’t actually know any Jews?
This is what makes the Israel thing difficult. Criticism of their government gives fuel to people who wouldn’t know the difference between Hasidism, Orthodox and Reform, or what Ben-Gurion hoped for Israel, but know that Jews=bad.
There is also one where it’s him being punched to Depeche Mode’s I just Cant Get Enough… because he called DM the “soundtrack to the Alt-right” Yeah right, jackass!:
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