Self-deciet expose itself in self-cotnradictions.
Nihilists must contradict their won convictions, in order to survive in a world they selectively, or completely deny.
So, whist they deny any degree of agency, they behave as if they did have agency.
Not only in their daily actions, but when they find scapegoats to blame for their fate:
Objectivists…Capitalists…Nazis…
So, while they absolve themselves, and their own, of culpability, they cannot help but maintain those who they must accuse for whatever happens to them.
They can do without an authoritarian, totalitarian God, of the Jews, but they cannot do without a Messiah, a saviour…a scapegoat.
In a no-god world, they still need crutch.
So, instead of a totalitarian authoritarian willful god, of laws, they believe ni a totalitarian authoritarian cosmos of natural laws.
Absolute Divinity replaced by Absolute Order.
They no longer need the primordial sin, and all that stuff about Adam & Eve and Paradise lost.
In their worldview, there is no guilt, no shame…because nobody can ever break the laws… what has been determined.
Whatever comes to be is in accordance with the LAW.
Paedophilia, necrophilia, mass exterminations, as in Palestine…all according to what has been determined.
No shame. No guilt.
Nothing could have turned out differently.
So, while they repeat the Holocaust, and always recall the Nazis, they have little to nothing to say about the ethnic cleansing happening during their own lifetime.
They prefer discussing ‘free-will’ or the ‘meaning of life’ - indulging in word games - but have zero to say about a holocaust occurring during their lifetime.
That is determiend…but the one of WWII…they’ve been told, was the only one that mattered…that can ever matter.
In the latter, the Nazis did have agency… presumably.
They, and only they, could have chosen to do other than what they, presumably, did.