0th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
01-30-2015, 07:04 PM
Quote: (01-30-2015 12:16 PM)scorpion Wrote:
I want to clarify that despite my critical view of the Holocaust narrative, I do not deny that European Jews suffered extreme persecution and hardship under the Nazi regime, and that an appalling number died as a result. I do not consider myself an anti-Semite. I have no hatred for the Jewish people as a group, and I fully support the existence of Israel as a Jewish state. I do not believe that the vast majority of Jews are engaged in some kind of conspiracy or intentional deception, rather, I think they have simply bought into the "founding myth" of the state of Israel and (understandably) have never critically questioned it. I regard the Holocaust narrative (by which I specifically refer to the extermination of six million in gas chambers) as wartime propaganda produced by the Zionists and Communists for political purposes, which took on a life of its own decades after the war's end and became institutionalized as a new pseudo-religion in the West as society became more secular. God used to be held most sacred, now it is "the six million" who are most sacred, who must never be questioned or profaned.
My views on this matter are the result of hundreds of hours of investigation and reading. It's not a conclusion I came to lightly, or with any sense of satisfaction. I simply regard it as just another hard truth that must be recognized if we are to look at the world objectively. At the end of the day, I am interested only in the truth. Questions of hate, bias, social opprobrium, shame, guilt and so forth do not enter into my equation. I simply examine the evidence objectively and ultimately ask one question: Is it true? This is the process that informs my thinking on all issues, and I see no reason why the Holocaust narrative deserves to be treated with kid gloves.
You know, Scorpion, I don't believe the theories you're proposing here, but your commentary really sheds light on how deeply ingrained leftist suppression tactics are in everyone's mind.
You clearly realize that people assume you hate Jews if you show skepticism about the scale of the Holocaust...
just like people assume you hate blacks and Hispanics if you say anything that hints at innate differences between racial groups...
just like people assume you hate women if you believe in innate gender differences or oppose abortion...
just like people assume you hate gays if you oppose legal recognition of their marriages...
just like people assume you hate poor people if you support relatively laissez faire economic policy...
just like people assume you hate Muslims if you believe they should receive a bit more scrutiny going through airport security...
etc.
The common thread, of course, is that anytime you disagree with a leftist position, it must be because you blindly hate some group of people, regardless of whether your position actually demonstrates any semblance of hatred or ill will.
It's bad enough to slander opinions in that way, but notice that some of the items in the list above aren't even opinions; they're beliefs that are objectively either true or untrue, with no one knowing for certain. Have you ever stopped to think about how incoherent it is to accuse someone of "hate" for holding a belief that, given the current human body of knowledge, has a significant likelihood of being objectively correct?
Imagine you're solving a math problem. You finish working through your solution, and tell someone you believe the answer is 28. His jaw drops and he replies "Oh my god that's blatantly even-ist! You don't like odd numbers, do you? Uggh why do people like this still exist?!" Obviously, regardless of whether your answer is correct, this person is a lunatic. If he thinks your answer is wrong, he should logically demonstrate it, not accuse you of hating odd numbers just for believing the answer is an even number. It sounds comically silly, but this analogy is identical to how leftists react to people questioning things like Holocaust statistics and genetic equalism.