Tim Dillon, Holocaust Denier
"What do you think the chances were that it was exactly six million people? How do you think they settled on six? This is a fair question."
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In the latest Patreon episode of his podcast, Tim Dillon asks comedian Mike Feeney a few innocent questions about the Holocaust:
Dillon: Do you think the Holocaust happened? No, I mean, I don't know what you're talking about. It's boring me. But think about it, do you think it happened? No, no, but I understand that a lot of people died. What do you think the chances were that it was exactly six million people?
Feeney: Oh, I don't think they'll ever know the exact amount, but I think-
Dillon: How do you think they settled on six? This is just a fair question.
Feeney: Well, first off, there—
Dillon: There was a debate about it. You know that, right?
Feeney: Well, they were able to estimate from, I mean, just off the—
Dillon: There was a debate about it.
Feeney: I mean, what do you mean?
Dillon: Meaning they debated about the number and they settled on six.
Feeney: From what was—
Dillon: And I think it's all bad.
Feeney: What was the other—
Dillon: Can I say that?
Feeney: What was the other debate?
Dillon: I think it's all bad.
Feeney: What was the other number?
Dillon: I think a couple of people wanted a higher number than that.
Feeney: Yeah.
Dillon: I'm asking.
Feeney: I'm one of these people who think the Holocaust happened.
Dillon: Well, I think it happened.
Feeney: Yeah.
Dillon: I think it happened.
Feeney: Yeah. Okay.
"A lot of people died in World War II. A lot of Christians died."
Dillon: I think it happened, for sure.
Feeney: Yeah. There's a lot of evidence to suggest that it did.
Dillon: What is some of the evidence?
Feeney: What do you mean? All the videos and the pictures?
Dillon: The videos of the Holocaust.
Feeney: Yes. All the prison camps, the work camps.
Dillon: Yeah. Well, no, no, no. I'm not saying it didn't happen. I'm saying it's sad that it happened.
Feeney: That's not what you're saying at all.
Dillon: I'm saying that, but that's what I'm saying.
Feeney: Deportation records, train schedules. Yeah, this seems like the population before and after. There you go. These are—
Dillon: But a lot of people died in World War II. A lot of Christians died.
Feeney: Sure.
Dillon: A lot of people in Russia died. 20 million people died.
Feeney: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Russia lost the most people.
"I'm not saying it didn't happen. I'm saying it's sad that it happened."
Dillon: Right. But the thing that makes the Holocaust bad is that it was because—
Feeney: Targeted.
Dillon: Targeted.
Feeney: Yeah.
Dillon: Ethnic targeting.
Feeney: Yes.
Dillon: But there's other instances of that happening.
Feeney: Like?
Dillon: Oh, tons of them, like the Armenian genocide, like lots of things.
Feeney: Darfur.
Dillon: Darfur. Probably what Israel just did in Gaza.
Feeney: Yeah.
Dillon: Do you think that's a genocide?
Feeney: It seems to be.
Dillon: Seems to be. It's a good answer. It's a good answer. "It seems to be" is a great answer, by the way. It's a fun answer. Here you go, "Well, it seems to be." It seems to be because it leaves the door open to get a deal with Apple TV. That's really what it does. You go, "Well, it seems to be, but it also might not be if I got a deal at Paramount. If I got a deal at Paramount, it might not actually be.”
This is not the first time Dillon, a 9/11 truther who's been listening to Alex Jones since he was a teenager, questioned the six million figure. Back in 2022 he hosted Ari Shaffir—son of a Holocaust survivor, raised in an Orthodox household—to promote Shaffir’s new special, Jew. The pair discussed a wide range of subjects relating to the Jewish people—high IQs, success in Hollywood, the Rothschild family and its manipulation of war and media, yada yada—before finally arriving at the question of the Holocaust. (The conversation came on the heels of one of Kanye West’s early antisemitism scandals, when he praised Hitler and then dined with Trump and neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, which Shaffir references.) To wit:
Dillon: Are you a self-hating Jew? Is that what they call you?
Shaffir: Sometimes. Right when I got out, I was like, what the fuck is wrong with you people? Yeah, yeah, I hate a lot of them. It’s a lot of what Kanye said was like, “Uhhh, this and that”—no one said he was wrong, they just wanted him to be quiet. You know?
Dillon: Yeah. It’s a complex and beautiful culture.
Shaffir: I wouldn’t say beautiful.
Dillon: Well, you know, good things, they do a lot of good things.
Shaffir: The Holocaust Memorial.
Dillon: Beautiful. Let’s get into that Holocaust. Because here’s what I’ve heard. This is what I’ve heard and I’m just saying this.
Shaffir: Okay. Just report on it.
Dillon: I’ve heard it was very bad—
Shaffir: So far, no issues. What else have you heard?
Dillon: But it wasn’t six. I’ve heard it wasn’t six. I’ve heard it was four.
Shaffir: Four.
Dillon: I’ve heard it was four.
Shaffir: That would be a nice exaggeration. Because [unintelligible—maybe “if it goes” or “if it’s close”] to 200,000 to six million, you’re like, it’s unbelievable. If you go to four million, like, we can up this a bit.
Dillon: I’ve heard it was four. I mean, that Woody Allen joke—“the scary thing is records are made to be broken”—I mean, isn’t he—can we just say he’s a genius and enough already?
Shaffir: He’s a genius. He’s a genius. And worth it.
Dillon: He did the wrong thing. Clearly—
Shaffir: By marrying an actress.
Dillon: By marrying an actress. But, you know, do you believe it was six million?
Shaffir: I don’t really know. But it’s odd that that’s a very even number.
Dillon: It’s strangely even.
Shaffir: It’s strangely even. It’s like, when you get hit by a comedy check from whatever and they go, “We had exactly 40 comps. That’s what we’re allowed.” You’re like, not 32 for the weekend?
Dillon: Why does the Holocaust get more attention than the potato famine which starved and killed many of my people?
Shaffir: Do you know?
Dillon: I don’t know.
Shaffir: Total IQ is lost.
Dillon: What do you mean?
Shaffir: Nothing lost from the fucking potato famine.
Once again, you can see Tim Dillon—who considers Tucker Carlson a good friend—at the Netflix Is A Joke Festival on May 7th.
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