An Example of How Letting Nazis Dictate Jewish Policy is a Bad Strategy
A reason offered to justify the growth of Holocaust Museums as well as the importance of Holocaust Day is the frequently cited but erroneous belief that,
Yom Hashoah ceremonies help to fight indifference and ignorance of the recent, tragic past. It is also an effective tool to counter the efforts of Holocaust deniers who seek to convince the world that the Holocaust never occurred.
In fact, Holocaust denial has exploded with the expansion of Holocaustism, and our attempts to universalize our national tragedy.
Why did the Jewish community think this would help?
Holocaust denial rests upon conspiracy theory. No amount of documentation will convince a conpiracy theorist of its proof. Rather, conspiracy theory rejects traditional documentation itself. The larger the paper trail, the greater the conspiracy.
Why were we so reactive to these people, (even if it is only one wrong motivation among many)?
No reasonable person needs yet another museum to convince him of fact, and no virulently anti-semitic conspiracy theorist is going to trust a Jewish run museum or Holocaust Day.
Therefore we accomplish nothing towards this specific goal, but we wasted communal energy and funds, and are continuing to do so for their upkeep and programming. And incur all the other problems and resentments of and centralizing and universalizing our European tragedy.
So some Nazis pretend it is all a lie. They still do.
We should not set policy according to Nazis.
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“No amount of documentation will convince a conpiracy theorist of its proof. Rather, conspiracy theory rejects traditional documentation itself. The larger the paper trail, the greater the conspiracy.”
Maybe we should stop studying evloution so to shut up those ID nutjobs.
Studying evolution is quite different than creating evolution museums for the sole purpose of changing the minds of the Fundamentalist or curbing their growth.
You mean like they did in NYC this week?
“Darwin Exhibit Opens Amidst Intelligent Design Controversy”
http://www.postchronicle.com/n.....1392.shtml
So you think this exhibit will simply encourage young children to seek out ID?
Your point is unfounded and irresponsible. It’s really not clear to me what motivated you to make it in the first place.
i.e. you provide no evidence for the correlation between holocaust museums and holocaust denial. Perhaps your blog ‘entry’ will provide some conspiracy theorist the open door they were looking for.
Data does not fuel conspiracy theory.
Bad, unsubstantiated theorizing does.
With all humility, I suggest you do a little research before publishing stuff like this, or retract it.
Actually, I don’t think most interest in evolution is conspiracy theorist at all, nor is creationism, at least not as its motivation. The holocaust deniers and Holocaust Industry, however, are much more focused on conspiracy theory.
You work in publishing? Publishing what, exactly?
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