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It's interesting talking in person with a Holocaust denier. They start out by explaining there is no evidence of the Holocaust, and in fact the Nazis killed fe
by woodandsteel 10y ago
It's interesting talking in person with a Holocaust denier.
They start out by explaining there is no evidence of the Holocaust, and in fact the Nazis killed few Jews.
So you ask them why this idea is so widely believed, and they explain it is because the Jews have a vast conspiracy to mislead the world so as to gain favor for themselves and the state of Israel.
So you ask them, "Have the Jews done anything else bad?" and their eyes light up, and they go into an long rant about one terrible thing after another the Jews have done, throughout the whole course of human history.
And by the end they have made the Jews look so bad that it would have been a simply wonderful thing for Hitler to try to kill them all off.
- LordKano 10y agoI have observed two different kinds of revisionists. The first kind are simply Jew haters. After they say that they don't believe that the Nazis tried to kill all of the Jews, they either imply or say outright that they should have. The second kind has an Asperger Syndrome like fixation on details. If the true number was 5.4 million or 6.5 million Jewish people killed, they take exception to the "6 million" figure.
- gumby 10y ago> The first kind are simply Jew haters. I sadly can't deny that such people exist but it seems profoundly weird to me that anyone could just hate a bunch of random people they've never met. Some sort of wiring bug.
- pjc50 10y agoIt's passed on as oral culture through the family and environment they grow up in, it seems.
- InitialLastName 10y agoClassic pathway for hate
- woodandsteel 10y agoSuch people don't hang around the sorts of circles you live in. But in much of the world they are the norm, alas, such as the present Middle East.
- woodandsteel 10y agoGood point about the fixation-on-details type. However, it is the Jew haters who sometimes get organized and do real damage to the world. Also, nasty politicians can sometimes convert large numbers of people into Jew haters.
- hackuser 10y agoSo what are your thoughts on this argument? It sounds like you were convinced, and the comment reads like a slightly clever way to spread these hateful ideas. (I can't speak for your intent.)
- woodandsteel 10y agoOh, sorry, I should have made my point clearer. This is that Holocaust deniers often say they are not antisemitic,just trying to be factual, but if you question them the right way, it turns out they are. What is really going on in their minds is that they mistakenly believe Jews are evil, and so they defend anyone who think the same, in this case the Nazis against the accusation of killing millions of Jews, even though they themselves think it would be great.