Reply #126: It is a fucking taboo.

[bemildred]

A taboo is not a taboo because it is true or false, or right or wrong, it is a taboo because you are not allowed to argue about it. Other western taboos are pedophilia and incest, for example, or cannibalism. Sodomy used to be, but is now argueable and discussable. (And no, I am not advocating anything, I'm talking about the meaning of the word "taboo".) The non-western world is full of perfectly normal people that do not question the historical reality of the Holocaust, but who are also able and willing to consider it dispassionately, and doing that will get you thrown in jail in places in Europe, because the subject means a lot more in Europe. If you are Chinese, the death count for the Holocaust is modest compared to their losses in WWII.