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Well, the more charitable interpretation would be to identify things that they might've picked up that are bullshit so they can stop doing those things. lol
But that's not how the human works. In general, you go where you look at, and you become what you spend time with.
Well, I tend to agree with that statement as a generality, but not specifically.
If you study WWII history in Germany, do you somehow become nazi? If just learning about something or discussing it made you become the thing, we'd all have a much more careful approach to the internet.
So in this specific instance, I wildly disagree that's how "the human works" and I find that statement to be nonsensical in this context.
The topic is broad. For what reason, or purpose, do you study that time? There are many possibilities.
You could develop an interest in soldiers. Or in Nazis. Or in their counterparts, the resistance. Or international politics of a time when that looked so much easier than nowadays...
Of course you could develop an interest. That's a radically different assertion than "you become what you spend time with".
Okay, I'm done with you.