Survey says more young Canadians believe the history of the Holocaust is exaggerated
OTTAWA – On Monday the world will mark eight decades since the liberation of Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi extermination camps where more than a million people, most of them Jews, were murdered during the Second World War.
But as world leaders and Auschwitz survivors prepare to gather at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in southern Poland, a new survey suggests a growing number of Canadians believe the history of the Holocaust has been exaggerated.
A panel survey commissioned by the Association of Canadian Studies and conducted by the polling firm Leger last spring found 18 per cent of Canadians between 18 and 24 years old agreed with the statement “I think the Holocaust was exaggerated.”
I wonder who these young “Canadians” are.
What is their ethnicity? Are they native born or of migrant background?
1st, 2nd, 3rd generation?
What is their religious upbringing if any? Mohammedan? Christian? Hindu?
Mass immigration has imported mass antisemitism, mass cultural incompatibility and mass cultural indifference to Canadian norms and values.
The 3rd world has little knowledge of or care for the holocaust having their own messy histories to sort.
Are pollsters able to sift this data?
Probably, but at the risk of being smeared as racist or phobic.
Do they choose to promote someone’s preferred narrative which rules out a deep dive?
I would not be surprised.
