by James B. of Screw Loose Change
Based on a recommendation from a reader, I recently picked up and read “Denying the Holocaust” by Emory Religious Studies Professor Deborah Lipstadt. Now we have spoken before on the overlap of Holocaust and 9/11 deniers (no, that does not mean every 9/11 truther is an anti-Semite, but they certainly have their representation) but I was struck by the sheer number of similarities between the two movements. This began even from the first page of the preface where the author mentions that a poll showed 22% of Americans believed it was possible the Holocaust never happened. Kind of puts all of those truther polls in perspective.
The similarities do not end there, the deniers of different sorts share so many techniques and logical fallacies that in many ways they are interchangeable but for the specifics of the subject matter.
Full Article (Screw Loose Change)
I’m pretty sure my feelings on both the 9/11 “truth” movement and Holocaust denial have been made clear in previous entries. That being said, it hasn’t escaped me that the two movements seem to be merging together at some level. I find myself curious as to how all of that will play out.
