Quote (Black XistenZ @ Apr 26 2025 05:04pm)

I didn't call the Holocaust the greatest crime against humanity, I called it the most well-documented crime against humanity. Subtle, but important distinction. In the so-called singularity debate, I actually tend to agree with the side arguing that the Holocaust is not a singularly outstanding genocide which stands a level above any and all others. Large-scale, premeditated genocides carried out with utmost brutality are unfortunately a relatively common occurrence throughout human history. For instance, the Hutu were secretly gathering and preparing knifes, machetes and guns for a long time before the day X in 1994 when they struck against the Tutsi in the Rwandan Genocide.

What sets the Holocaust apart is that it was the first fully industrialized genocide in history, but that's imho not enough to argue that it was magnitudes worse or more evil than all the other genocides.




However, this is an academic debate and has no bearing on the Holocaust being real and representing one of the lowest points humanity ever reached.

Quote (PapaPsych @ Apr 28 2025 09:37pm)

Quote (Santara @ Apr 29 2025 09:41pm)

This kind of mental retardation is the equivalent of claiming stolen valor negates the lived experiences of actual veterans.

Quote (Goomshill @ Apr 24 2025 10:42pm)

Remember that old line about you can't reason people out of positions they didn't reason themselves into?

I see the same shit in the media today, some talking head will unironically say "...and Trump claimed, without evidence, that blah blah blah, and the only evidence he presented to support his position is blah blah blah". Saw exactly that on a Colbert broadcast a couple weeks ago and I saw him pause midsentence for a fraction of a second, I don't think the audience or viewers even notice. There's no evidence of the most heavily documented extermination campaign in history, besides all the evidence.

Nobody is going to arrive at being a holocaust denying antisemite in 2025 unless they're totally divorced from critical thinking and reason, so there's really no point to engaging on it. If I come along the road and see someone eating a big turd sandwich I'm not going to debate with them on the basics of hygiene and sanitation and the well founded evolutionary biological anathema we hold against coprophagia. Someone who is eating shit clearly has a few screws loose and didn't just misjudge their afternoon tea and biscuits.

Quote (PapaPsych @ Apr 29 2025 09:47pm)

#BelieveAllWomen

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Quote (Santara @ Apr 30 2025 06:57am)

You presented that story in the tone of "this guy pretended to be a camp survivor, because they're all pretending."

Fuck off.