Thursday, October 13, 2005
Lost another one
I had a good post. I really did. It had to do with something current, but completely forgot it. I really do need to keep a little blog booklet lying around.
J and I watched Hotel Rwanda last night. Good movie, parts were funny, parts were way too dramatic, had as happy an ending as possible in a movie about genocide. Don Cheadle did an amazing job and the real Paul Rusesabagina who currently lives in Belgium, should be very proud.
It's summed up as Belgium ruled the country, depending on size of your nose, you were either Tutsi or Hutu. The Belgians picked the Tutse to be in charge. When Belgium left, they left the Hutu in charge and with alot of help from radio propaganda, they succeeded in turning a significant portion of Hutus into a murderous genocidal mob intent on wiping out all Tutsis. Paul housed almost 1300 Tutsi and Hutu refugees at the hotel and did everything he could to ensure their survival.
Hotel Rwanda
Excellent movie and would highly recommend it. And Don Cheadle is awesome.
I just remembered my original post. How can people say the Holocaust didn't happen? Moon landing, sure. All we have is NASA's word, some video footage, and a handful of people who were there. Fine, I can at least see how it could, maybe, be a conspiracy.
But the Holocaust? The genocide of 5,596,029 to 5,860,129, Gutman, Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (1990), of European Jews. Videos, pictures, survivors, mass graves, entire countries of people who saw it happen.
Obviously it is just extreme antisemitism. People really don't like the Jews. They do run alot of businesses and command alot of capital, but that is because they make sound financial decisions and are genetically predisposed to being cheap. (that's a joke, John Stewart said it and he's Jewish and I paraphrased) But I seriously can think of no other reason as to why people would want to even think the Holocaust didn't happen.
And just in case you forgot, The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is up and running. My brother went a couple months ago. He said it was pretty amazing. They had their 10 year anniversary in 2003. It's on my list next time I'm in DC.
I did a quick search and found a few people who don't think the Holocaust happened.
Okay, now that I look, I only found 1 page on why it didn't happen and the other 3 are trying to either explain why it did happen or who these people are who think it didn't happen. That one is from Esquire magazine, 2001.
50 reasons the Holocaust didn't happen on the White Pride World Wide message board, big surprise there.
Jim Loy a quick page on how we know it did happen and a few emails from people who disagree.
John Sacks Esquire article Inside the Bunker, "The people who believe that the Holocaust did not happen meet regularly, in secret, to exchange theories and research. Are they anti-Semites, or are they just horribly mistaken? The author went to find out. The last thing he expected was to like them." I'm gonna read that one after the 50 reasons one.
J and I watched Hotel Rwanda last night. Good movie, parts were funny, parts were way too dramatic, had as happy an ending as possible in a movie about genocide. Don Cheadle did an amazing job and the real Paul Rusesabagina who currently lives in Belgium, should be very proud.
It's summed up as Belgium ruled the country, depending on size of your nose, you were either Tutsi or Hutu. The Belgians picked the Tutse to be in charge. When Belgium left, they left the Hutu in charge and with alot of help from radio propaganda, they succeeded in turning a significant portion of Hutus into a murderous genocidal mob intent on wiping out all Tutsis. Paul housed almost 1300 Tutsi and Hutu refugees at the hotel and did everything he could to ensure their survival.
Hotel Rwanda
Excellent movie and would highly recommend it. And Don Cheadle is awesome.
I just remembered my original post. How can people say the Holocaust didn't happen? Moon landing, sure. All we have is NASA's word, some video footage, and a handful of people who were there. Fine, I can at least see how it could, maybe, be a conspiracy.
But the Holocaust? The genocide of 5,596,029 to 5,860,129, Gutman, Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (1990), of European Jews. Videos, pictures, survivors, mass graves, entire countries of people who saw it happen.
Obviously it is just extreme antisemitism. People really don't like the Jews. They do run alot of businesses and command alot of capital, but that is because they make sound financial decisions and are genetically predisposed to being cheap. (that's a joke, John Stewart said it and he's Jewish and I paraphrased) But I seriously can think of no other reason as to why people would want to even think the Holocaust didn't happen.
And just in case you forgot, The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is up and running. My brother went a couple months ago. He said it was pretty amazing. They had their 10 year anniversary in 2003. It's on my list next time I'm in DC.
I did a quick search and found a few people who don't think the Holocaust happened.
Okay, now that I look, I only found 1 page on why it didn't happen and the other 3 are trying to either explain why it did happen or who these people are who think it didn't happen. That one is from Esquire magazine, 2001.
50 reasons the Holocaust didn't happen on the White Pride World Wide message board, big surprise there.
Jim Loy a quick page on how we know it did happen and a few emails from people who disagree.
John Sacks Esquire article Inside the Bunker, "The people who believe that the Holocaust did not happen meet regularly, in secret, to exchange theories and research. Are they anti-Semites, or are they just horribly mistaken? The author went to find out. The last thing he expected was to like them." I'm gonna read that one after the 50 reasons one.
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