Greg Gutfeld seems to think Nazis only killed useless Jews in the Holocaust

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@bucaneer

Some of those people had been previously forced to work in ghettos, but that was just a means to stretch time, not an alternative to death, regardless of anyone’s “usefulness.”

Yeah, victims were left alive in the ghettos temporarily because they were already killing them as fast as they could.

@bucaneer

The public understanding of the Holocaust is skewed by Auschwitz, which is a very unusual place in that it was both a concentration and an extermination camp: others were generally one or the other. It is also very unusual in that it left behind thousands of survivors: other death factories were built, fulfilled their purpose and were dismantled leaving hardly any innocent witnesses.

Good point. The ultimate example of “survivor bias.”

One does wonder what is next in the right’s excuse of genocide explanations? The Khmer Rouse were practicing urban renewal? Franco was promoting land reform? The great defenestration of Prague was basically an amusement park ride? Seriously, fuck these guys.