AL PARKER | 2006-08-01
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They say it's "Uniquely evil" or a "singularity" because there has never been such a large scale, industrialized attempt at genocide in history.
But if all people are completely equal, and there are no races, the term genocide, which refers to "the systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group", should be meainingless.
But as we are becoming inceasingly aware with the action in the Middle East, "One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail." (Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, Feb. 27, 1994)
That makes Hitler sound moderate. I guess a different set of rules apply for Jews.
I just searched for stuff on 'The Uniquely Evil Singularity' and came up with an article on Historikerstreit [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historikerstreit ] which was an intellectual and political controversy in West Germany about the way the Holocaust should be treated in history. They point out some of your arguments in the Issues section. I guess that makes Bob an apologist for fascism, as Ernst Nolte.
Comment by Al Parker —
***** I am always surprised at how FAIR, comparatively speaking, Wikipedia is. Compared to other sources, believe it or not, the article Parker refers to is very objective.
***** As a political professional, the last sentence in the article you refer to gave me a chuckle. "The German people accept the (Holocaust was uniquely evil) position."
**** I have spent a major part of my life trying to find out what the AMERICAN people accept or do not accept. That was my BUSINESS. I am professionally jealous of somebody who can simply state what the German people believe without fear of contradiction.
****** And they need not fear contradiction. Any German who answers a question about the Holocaust faces an automatic two-year prison sentence if he gives the wrong answer. I don't know about Germans, but I can state flatly that that would make an American nervous. Germans are probably constitutionally different, b ut an American playing with a prison sentence would give the most extemely opposite answer he could think of.
***** Yes, Al, I know you know that.
***** It is interesting that a fascist apologist would demand freedom of speech, as Al well knows.
***** And if Germans freely accept the "uniquely evil" position, I must repeat a question that would only ocur to a naive American: Why do you need a two-year prison sentence to force people to say what they already believe?