Reason for writing this article: the author is a communist; communists have been shown to have physically damaged amygdalae; he’s attempting to justify his physiological deficiency by claiming his super-smart lefty friends are totally correct for believing objective falsehoods.
"The gas chambers were almost certainly not real."
I'm not trying to convince you that Otto Frank was a bad person.
I could go through all the sources and cherry-pick arguments that either glorify or absurdify the claims of millions dying under showerheads of poison vapor in a handful of buildings in Soviet Poland.
I could paint a portrait of a an all-consuming fire, or I could exonerate a dead nation.
But I don't care.
It's not the point.
*The point is to give you an emotional barometer of how you feel when presented with new ideas.*