lbo-talk-digest V1 #6338

[Bradford DeLong]

>"I have never yet
>run into anyone who has done some reading in history, denies the gas
>chambers, and yet is not an anti-Semite."
>
>what crap...whose history? that is exactly what holocaust "deniers"
>would say to rationalize their position, that the historical record -
>the one they believe, not the one you believe - leads them,
>unmistakably, to conclude what they conclude...
>
>and  in very limited readings of "them", I've found no  denial of the
>slaughter of jews and the brutality of jew haters, but only of the
>circumstances,numbers and "facts", and their use by all manner of
>propagandists on all sides...
>
>this kind of garbage is of the bigoted "everybody knows" school...like
>"history", and "the facts" reveal - clearly - that stalin killed
>thousands-millions-tens of millions or perhaps hundreds of millions
>(pick your historian), or that jenin was a massacre, or only a killing
>of fifty terrorists ( pick your fact collector)...
>
>there may be some relative truth to be found in these matters, but when
>it comes to some areas, like holocaust denial, communist genocide, etc,
>there is little hope for clear thinking and only various and sundry
>forms of bigotry and narrow mindedness that is far more religious and
>superstitious than  scientific...

Another good brain destroyed by postmodern relativism...

Brad DeLong