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Originally Posted by Brett Golden
Presently, efforts are underway to criminalize denial of the "holocaust" in 27 European nations (European Union - EU). ...........
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Quotes around the word Holocaust. Hmmmm....You're the one who posted that thread about Hitler, aren't you? Hmmmm.....
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They inhibit historical inquiry and restrict free speech. They are a disgrace, and should be repealed.
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Inhibiting historical inquiry? Let's take another example. What if I say that Stalin's slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people in the Gulags never really happened, that it was all doctored photos and hallucinations and that the people who were killed really died of natural causes - is that historical inquiry? Or would it be sheer raving lunacy?
If you guessed "sheer raving lunacy", you would be correct.
Denying the holocaust is about as legitmate as denying that the sky is blue. I won't be expecting you to agree with me any time soon - reality cannot compete with the grand-daddy of all conspiracy theories.
But if you start whining and expect sane people to dignify this madness with the sober term "historical inquiry", you cannot expect a serious response.