Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?
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The witches speak openly now. Yes it seems more tolerated by the userbase, because the userbase is witchier on average than it used to be.
IMO the entire topic is an epistemic cesspit in which neither side can claim credible evidence any longer and it's best ignored altogether.
The second-best is to upvote posts that at least reason well and to downvote ones that are pearlclutching or tinfoilhatting.
Overall though I don't think there's any more to be gained from discussing the holocaust at all.
I think another thing that makes such a discussion less ideal is that it would take a tremendous amount of back and forth to even begin to have a chance of getting anywhere, but the weekly thread moves on too fast. New top-level posts are made, people stop reading older comments, and eventually a new thread is started altogether.
I suspect such a conversation would fare much better in its own thread outside the weekly CW roundup, not that I think even that could avail such a tainted topic.
I'm starting to think this is a general problem with our format. "Issues of the week" are heavily discussed and then forgotten forever, unless someone crawls through the archive for callout materiel.
It's true that the interest in happening-now CW content means past material is much less relevant than if every discussion was about some old book or event. But this month's CW content isn't that different from last month's, and if users were more interested they could cite past material more, just like 'journals articles' do.
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