Texas' Holocaust both-sides-ing debacle is scary. Worse? It's already happening.

This goes beyond forgetting the Holocaust; it’s about raising entire generations to view perpetrators as heroes.

In the U.S., we have monuments to Nazi collaborators in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Wisconsin and Ohio, among other states.

Parades honoring Holocaust perpetrators are held in European capitals, where veterans of Nazi divisions that exterminated Jews and Roma are feted as heroes.

This goes beyond forgetting the Holocaust; it’s about raising entire generations to view perpetrators as heroes.

The vast majority of those being honored are Nazi collaborators from Central and Eastern Europe responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews.

In turn, the military and police assistance provided by these collaborators allowed Germany to expand and continue the genocide.

In the quiet Chicago suburb of Libertyville, one can visit the bust of Pavle Đurišić, a commander in the Serbian Chetnik collaborators who received the Iron Cross, a Nazi Germany military honor.

Estonia, Latvia and Ukraine openly celebrate their countries’ divisions in the Waffen-SS, the military wing of the Nazi Party responsible for the Holocaust, among other war crimes.

Every news cycle stirred by such reprehensible analogies reinforced the illusion of “debates” over the Holocaust, propagating the notion that perhaps there is more than one valid perspective on genocide.

Wherever you see monuments and books presenting “opposing perspectives” about the Holocaust, you see angry — and organized — men carrying torches and focused on violent agendas.