“I can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee,” Mr. Latson stated in one of the emails, which were obtained by The Palm Beach Post. Mr. Latson said he had to stay “politically neutral” and separate his personal views about the Holocaust from his job as a public school official. From NY Times
I think most people would find this statement pretty weird, but it’s really not much different from the Trump supporters who don’t quite want to sound as stupid as Mr. Trump himself but are terrified of being accused of disloyalty. Especially with that rabble lining up for 2024. So they say stuff like, “I can’t say if there was fraud or not, but Mr. Trump is certainly entitled to make sure that every vote is counted correctly and whether some of these allegations of voter fraud are true or not”.
If the Democrats did the same thing under similar circumstances, the Republicans would go ballistic and scream at the authorities to shut down the recount. Well, come to think of it, that’s pretty well what they did in Florida in 2000.
What Mr. Latson is really saying is, “please don’t judge me because I believe the Holocaust never happened.” He knows his acquaintances would find his belief both ridiculous and bigoted: it’s not an innocent belief. It is a belief founded in centuries of Antisemitism.
No one says “I can’t say if the Holocaust is a factual, historical event” if they believe it really happened.
And no one says, “I can’t say if Joe Biden really won the election or not” if they really didn’t believe that Joe Biden won the election. But if they openly said, “Donald Trump actually, really won this election” they would have to explain to their constituents why they are ignoring the results of a free and fair election, when that’s how they got elected.
And that is too awkward for them.