Friday, January 30, 2004
David Bernstein, Holocaust Denier?
Conspirator Bernstein here objects to a statement by mel gibson:
Yes, of course. Atrocities happened. War is horrible. The Second World War killed tens of millions of people. Some of them were Jews in concentration camps. Many people lost their lives. In the Ukraine, several million starved to death between 1932 and 1933. During the last century, 20 million people died in the Soviet Union."
Dictionary com offers these definitions of holocaust:
A sacrificial offering that is consumed entirely by flames
Great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life, especially by fire.
The genocide of European Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II: “Israel emerged from the Holocaust and is defined in relation to that catastrophe” (Emanuel Litvinoff).
A massive slaughter: “an important document in the so-far sketchy annals of the Cambodian holocaust”
A sacrificial offering that is consumed entirely by flames. Middle English, burnt offering.
There are two forms of holocaust denial.
One is that the holocaust didn't happen.
The other is that it happened only to the Jews.
Bernstein comes close to engaging in this second form.
He's right, of course, that there was a systematic campaign by the nazis to exterminate Jews. I see no indication Gibson disagrees. My ex-wife lost a third of her family in France to the Nazis, because they were priests, labor activists, or french patriots. I'm ango-saxon and look Jewish, am queer, radical, mentally ill, and would have been the first to be sent to the camps.
It is fair to describe the atomic bombing of the persecuted Japanese Christian comunity in Nagasaki as part of the WWII Holocaust. It is unfair not to.
The holocaust continues.
< rant >
To make the false claim that it happened only to the Jews suggests that it's over, and it's not over. In the twentieth century, governments sought to alter or abolish the people.
100 million were killed. The killing hasn't stopped.
Government studies show that government studies are hazardous to your health. Rats in government studies developed cancer at rates far higher than rats in the wild. People think of the government as omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent. Instead, government is a tumor, a cancer that may kill us all if it isn't stopped. The meme that the government has our best interests at heart is holocaust denial. < / rant >
Conspirator Bernstein here objects to a statement by mel gibson:
Yes, of course. Atrocities happened. War is horrible. The Second World War killed tens of millions of people. Some of them were Jews in concentration camps. Many people lost their lives. In the Ukraine, several million starved to death between 1932 and 1933. During the last century, 20 million people died in the Soviet Union."
Dictionary com offers these definitions of holocaust:
A sacrificial offering that is consumed entirely by flames
Great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life, especially by fire.
The genocide of European Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II: “Israel emerged from the Holocaust and is defined in relation to that catastrophe” (Emanuel Litvinoff).
A massive slaughter: “an important document in the so-far sketchy annals of the Cambodian holocaust”
A sacrificial offering that is consumed entirely by flames. Middle English, burnt offering.
There are two forms of holocaust denial.
One is that the holocaust didn't happen.
The other is that it happened only to the Jews.
Bernstein comes close to engaging in this second form.
He's right, of course, that there was a systematic campaign by the nazis to exterminate Jews. I see no indication Gibson disagrees. My ex-wife lost a third of her family in France to the Nazis, because they were priests, labor activists, or french patriots. I'm ango-saxon and look Jewish, am queer, radical, mentally ill, and would have been the first to be sent to the camps.
It is fair to describe the atomic bombing of the persecuted Japanese Christian comunity in Nagasaki as part of the WWII Holocaust. It is unfair not to.
The holocaust continues.
< rant >
To make the false claim that it happened only to the Jews suggests that it's over, and it's not over. In the twentieth century, governments sought to alter or abolish the people.
100 million were killed. The killing hasn't stopped.
Government studies show that government studies are hazardous to your health. Rats in government studies developed cancer at rates far higher than rats in the wild. People think of the government as omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent. Instead, government is a tumor, a cancer that may kill us all if it isn't stopped. The meme that the government has our best interests at heart is holocaust denial. < / rant >
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