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My American History prof and several other students were chatting after class about why some people are more likely to believe what they read or what they're told without bothering to ask questions or educate themselves (I can't remember how the subject came up in the lecture, which was about the English Puritans' battles with the Dutch Calvinists and how they affected Colonial New England). Anyway, I brought up the people who, despite all evidence to the contrary, would swear under oath that the Holocaust never happened, or that it happened, but the Jews did it to themselves, or that it happened, but not the way we think it did... you know who I mean, right? I certainly do; I certainly know who I mean -- which is why no one was more surprised than I when I started talking about the "Holocaust Retcon."

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Maybe next week we can all chat about World Wank I and World Wank II, or perhaps even The Kerfuffle Between the States. In the meantime, I'm going to print out this week's posts to Metafandom and nail them to a church door.

I hate you, fandom. Don't look at me.