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Michael Forian
The one and only, Michael Forian.
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So what is Holocaust denial?
امیر مجیری, Tyler J. Gillies, Igor The Troll and 8 other people liked this
No, Michael, it isn't "let's kill the rest of the Jews", it's lets deny the Jews claim that they were targeted during WWII. Big difference, bud.
- Michael Forian
Hmmm, if it means kill "the rest", how did the others get killed? <scratches head>
- Curtis Jackson
I just said about an hour ago that Mike Arrington is a dewsh. When are you ppl gonna start listening to me! ;p
- Sean MacDhai
Sorry, Arrington is right on this one. Either way, anyone who denies the Holocaust isn't someone I'm all that interested in letting participate in any conversations I'm part of.
- Robert Scoble
Whether or not its code for anything, its a clear statement that enables those who do want to kill the rest of the Jews to operate freely and to promote it freely. It is *inherently* racist.
- Curtis Schweitzer
My comment was meant to show the bad logic of "holocaust denial = kill the rest of the Jews". If there was no Holocaust, how can you be killing "the rest"?
- Curtis Jackson
Both Holocaust Denial and "Let's kill the rest of the Jews." are such ridiculous statements that they aren't even worth paying attention to.
- Angus Burton
Before we get any further into this, I am not Jewish, but most of my friends are Jewish and my school is primarily of a Jewish population. I do not support Holocaust denial. A few months ago, I was trying to promote the fact that more Jews and Catholic Poles actually did die than the reported numbers. I just don't like Arrington's statement. Why? It just doesn't make any sense (Curtis...
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- Michael Forian
Michael: no, I didn't think you were. It's just that Arrington is right, this is code for anti-Semites to come together without saying "we hate Jews." By denying the Holocaust you are poking a stick in Jew's eyes. It's the most in your face form of anti-semitism. I'd say the worst form, but at least it's out in the open where we can confront it. Lots of anti-semitism happens behind closed doors where we can't confront it.
- Robert Scoble
I'm not Jewish, by the way. My mom is German. My grandfather spoke out against what the Germans were doing and was arrested for doing that. My grandmother refused Hitler's youth medals and said "I don't raise my children for Hitler, I raise them for God." Anyone who says that the Holocaust didn't happen defiles my family's history too.
- Robert Scoble
Well, if Arrington did mean it in that sense, then I have to agree. Usually Arrington is much more articulate (at least from what I've seen). On a side note, seeing that we're talking about family history during WWII, after my grandfather was being awarded a medal by Sir Winston Churchill for his service, he ripped it off his jacket (in front of Churchill) and threw it to the ground. He...
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- Michael Forian
@Scoble I wish FF supported comment-liking.
- Aaron Brethorst
Name me a true Holocaust denier who would not lose sleep if the Jews were eradicated. They do not exist since they are only using that argument about an established truth to cover their own interests and feelings towards the Jewish people. I have never heard of somebody who denies the Holocaust yet supports the Jewish people and their existence and I have spoken to a number of them.
- Lester Greenberg
I'm curious: How many of you have read the personal accounts of those who were held in concentration camps? Have you read of the Poles, the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Jews, the prostitutes, the Christians who were caught for helping Jews and other German designated "undesirables" who were arrested and placed in concentration camps? Once you read the accounts, coupled with the pictorial...
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- Melanie Reed
Yeah, I don't agree with Arrington about much, but that's pretty dead on right there. And you'd better believe that there are plenty of hate groups in this country who think that way.
- Steven Perez
Melanie: I have. I doubt there are any Holocaust Deniers hanging out here. Of course, if there were, that would earn an automatic block from me.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I wish I could have met your Grandmother. She has earned my respect.
- Melanie Reed
It's good advice, after any tragic event, to avoid those who lack sympathy just as much as you avoid those who take advantage of sympathy.
- Gus
I worry about the long range plan of Holicaust diniers. It won't be long before there are no more first hand wtnesses left alive.
- Robert Hafer
Robert Scoble +1
- Igor The Troll
I don't know how anyone can deny it happened. I'm not Jewish (German and Ukrainian Catholics) , but had family that died in the Holocaust as well. My German grandfather was put into slave labor where he died for helping Jews. My Ukrainian great uncle was put in a camp for the same thing (was in Poland at the time), he never made it out alive either. No doubt it was a time of great evil...
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- W. Brant Kesseler
It would be very interesting to analyze the "anathomy and antropology of like"
- Maurizio Goetz
http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- امیر مجیری
It is stupid. The Holocaust happened. It was REAL. And it was terrible. Learn from history, don't ignore it.
- Bill Lunsford
Michael Jackson Memorial... - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Michael was one of the most inspirational people in my life, and even though he is gone now, his music will live on forever! #muchmusic
Rene Wirtz liked this
@reneritchie To be perfectly honest, and even despite her lack of intellectualism, I like her patriotism.
oh, you just like her because Alaskans are more Canadian than American, haha! ;) To us in the lower 48, she is frakkin embarrassing, ug!
- Sean MacDhai
ABC website tells kids when they should die - http://www.news.com.au/technol...
"AN ABC website has been accused of portraying farmers and forestry workers as evil and telling kids how much carbon they can produce before they die. The Planet Slayer website, which can be accessed via the science section on the ABC home page, also demonises people who eat meat and those involved in the nuclear industry, a Senate estimates committee heard. The site has several features including a cartoon series, Adventures of Greena, and a tool called Prof Schpinkee's Greenhouse Calculator to help kids work out their carbon footprint."
- Michael Forian
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