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A sign in my neighborhood says 'The Holocaust is fake' — I wish I felt surprised

JL;DR SUMMARY Amid growing occurrences of Holocaust denial and distortion, Aviya Kushner expresses her disturbance at encountering a sign proclaiming "The Holocaust is fake" in her Chicago neighborhood, emphasizing the dangerously blurred lines between truth and falsehood in contemporary discourse. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Holocaust DenialHolocaust EducationGenocideHolocaust DistortionRaphael LemkinHistorical RevisionismJoe RoganFact CheckingJewish Community In Chicago

Places mentioned

Chicago, Illinois, United States
"When I saw a sign on my streetcorner in Chicago that said The Holocaust is fake, I immediately stopped."
Auschwitz, Lesser Poland, Poland
"A photo taken at Auschwitz, after the liberation of the extermination camp, 1945."
London, United Kingdom
"The Library, located in London, stated that it wanted to clarify the centrality of the Holocaust to our work without changing its commitment to furthering the study of genocide."

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