Re: Auschwitz in Bulgaria

["Macdonald Stainsby" <mstainsby@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Macdonald,
>
> I am just begging for intellectual honesty. Is it so difficult to see the
> difference between shooting or killing people with gas and the results of
a
> desastrous economic policy? Sorry to say, but you are arguing on the same
> intellectual level as revisionist who say Jews and Roma only died in
> concentration camps because of diseases and there was no intention to kill
them.

Johannes,

I know you are trying to say this in a nice fashion, but it doesn't come off
as such no matter how you try. Again, of course one can see the difference.
That doesn't make the analogy false, and it isn't designed to win over
liberals. There are two reasons I attempt to defend such an analogy: One,
accepting that both have no long term vision of a better day ahead, these
are both examples of conscious state policy to wipe out (or at least be
indifferent to) all the peoples who stand in the way of what is perceived as
the glorious end. Two, I believe it is very important that we smash the
notion that the holocaust is unique in human history. the posts that Lou has
brought forth from the man who writes about the "Holocaust Industry" are
indeed watershed notions. So long as the Holocaust is put on an untouchable
pedestal, we will always have people who will not act simply because things
"just aren't that bad yet".

I detect a bit of German guilt in your defense of the Holocaust as the
unspeakable crime. I would like to point out that guilt is the only emotion
that is never revolutionary.

Macdonald