> The Holocaust, however, is treated differently than any other event of > genocide and every other attrocity in history. The laws are different, > and the penalties are usually harsher in all areas. There is a far > greater backlash. Because it wasn't just some mass murder during war, it was a systematic execution of people of a single race. Jews were shipped from France, from Austria, Poland, Germany, etc. If Germany controled the land, they tried to remove it's Jews for execution. Has there been a shipping of people for execution into or out of Sudan? Have their been camps set up for the execution of people in Rwanda? There is a difference.
> The reasons for this that have been put forward so far are : > > 1) it happened in our century, and there are living survivors. But > we've already seen that there are living survivors of several other > atrocities, some in this very decade far less century. And the countries where they happened can and should have laws protecting the history and memory of the events. > 2) Certain countries equate any questioning of the holocaust to a Hate > Crime by default, and this is not the case in other countries. > However, the backlash for such statements is usualy disproportionate > in most countries of the world when compared to the backlash for other > racist, ethnic, or religious 'hate' speech. Because the only people denying it as a historical fact are those attacking Jews. It's also attacking the history of the country in case. If a country says that attacks on it's history is not allowed, then.... > Neither of these reasons really explain why the curtailment of Freedom > of Speech, or the general acceptance that publishing such items is by > default Irresponsible is so widely accepted in the case of Jews and > the Holocaust, but no such high degree of recognition of > irresponsibility occurs in any of several other examples of > insensitivity,bigotry, genocide or racism. Because this isn't an opinion. This is rejection of historical fact for the singular reason of attacking a specific group. No one else has this done to them. People who hate blacks don't deny the slave trade. People who hate Muslims don't deny the Crusades. It's only people who hate the Jews who deny the Holocaust. Show me a comparable response where history is manipulated to attack another. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:198620 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
