(August 18, 2017 at 3:24 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(August 18, 2017 at 3:11 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Yeah, and someone can disagree with me when I insist the Holocaust happened. Should I refrain from calling that person an anti-semite?
Well, I don't think that's an equivalent analogy. That would be like saying slavery never happened, not that the war wasn't about slavery.
But actually, I would refrain from calling that person anti semite. IMHO, if someone honestly believes the holocaust was made up, that just makes them a cuckoo conspiracy theorist. It doesn't indicate that they're prejudice against Jewish people, in my opinion.
You're missing the point. I am not talking about the specifics of the history denial, it's the history denial itself. You're bending over backwards to equivocate racism/bigotry out of this equation. I have yet to meet a Holocaust denier that was just a conspiracy theorist nutbag. They are sort of definitionally driven by anti-semitism to call the Holocaust a hoax.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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