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All the damn Holocaust documentaries.
Oof. It's fucked, right? Growing up, I thought anti-Semitism was a joke, because how could anyone actually believe that?
I also was stupid and didn't realise how near the past was, and that bad ideas don't ever just disappear completely.
I only yesterday learned that some education instituitions in the US and Canada had limits on the number of Jewish students who could attend. The European countries who practiced this weren't so much of a surprise to me, but the fact that universities like Harvard did this was an eye opener.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_quota?wprov=sfla1
Oh man, and that's by far the most talked-about genocide. Literally any other gets even less attention, and probably has sort-of-mainstream deniers.