(December 28, 2009 at 11:28 pm)padraic Wrote: There's a Turk on AtheistForums.com who denies the Armenian Holocaust (1915) and hates Jews. (and Armenians of course) Will he do?There is also a goodly sprinkling of rabidly anti Islamic dropkicks.
Naw, we need a holocaust denier to come here. That doesn't count.
(December 29, 2009 at 5:35 am)leo-rcc Wrote: All deniers do is stick their fingers in their ears and go "I can't hear you, I can't hear you" when presented with the facts. You may try to make it show as if they are "merely skeptical" but that fact is that I've discussed with these assholes long enough to know that all they want to do is downplay the anti-Semitic tendencies of Europe en central asia.
Indeed, hence calling them deniers. There is an extreme difference between being skeptical of certain aspects about a historical event as opposed to denying it ever happened in an attempt to whitewash anti-Semitic views.
"Deniers" are not skeptics, they are people who have taken a vested interest in denying something is happening and refusing to consider the evidence. For example, people have legitimate skepticism about the impact of Global warming and to what extent it's man made, but when you get someone who refuses to even consider that the world could be warming and that there is an economic concern here...that's a "denier".
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." Benjamin Franklin
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