Michael Peinovich recently debated History Speaks (HS) on the topic of the Holocaust, with Peinovich representing the revisionist side. You can find the video here. I will only be addressing one aspect of the debate in this article. If you would like more in-depth discussion, check out this CoDoH forum thread. Throughout the debate HS…
Tag: Debating the Holocaust
Ending The Conversation Part Three
Part 1, Part 2 We have arrived at the last part of Adam Klein’s article. This section is called ‘Eisenhower’s intuition’ and it is prefaced with the following image of Eisenhower in the recently liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp. Remember that this article is called, How to fight Holocaust denial in social media – with the…
Ending The Conversation Part Two
Part 1, Part 3 Let us continue where we left off in the discussion of Adam Klein’s article. You’ll notice how this next section is called ‘A conspiracy resurrected’. Holocaust revisionist is not a conspiracy theory. Revisionists are not the ones making the accusation. It is the Holocaust itself, the claim of Germans murdering 6…
Ending The Conversation Part One
Part 2, Part 3 Today I would like to address the following article written by Adam G. Klein. The tagline of the article’s website, The Conversation, is,’ academic rigor, journalistic flair’. Does this article employ academic rigor? We’ll see. Will Klein provide evidence that fights Holocaust denial? Let’s find out. The first bit is about…
Why Deny?
It’s Friday! Time to have a little fun and a few laughs. Let’s look at Reddit. Reddit is heavily moderated rendering open discussion impossible. So what we are left with is an echo chamber full of people that are not only gleeful to repeat orthodox opinions, they also feel smart about doing so. The following…
Holocaust Fragility
The Memorial and Museum for Auschwitz/Birkenau, or MMAB, hosts the website, auschwitz.org. Every official Holocaust website has its obligatory section on Holocaust denial. I can’t think of any other totally real historical event the requires such protection. Today I will show how their entry on ‘Denial forms‘ illustrates the fragility of the Holocaust narrative. First…
Apples and Oranges
Holocaust revisionism is not the same as fake moon landing conspiracies or flat earth claims. We all know the idiom that you can’t compare apples and oranges. That is the logical fallacy of false equivalence. Yet when I discuss Holocaust revisionism with random people online these comparisons keep popping up. Why would an otherwise reasonable…