[“‘Holocaust’ Remembrance Day” spreads like topsy. Remember the Holocaust and keep it holy… You dirty goyim, more than you deserve it is, that rabbidics allow you to waggle around on their planet. Surely every day is already Holohorseshit day, as literally not a day goes by that doesn’t feature all the Holonews you can eat, piping hot and stinky from the oven, sprinkled o’er with fresh small dead black fish for extra stinky geshmaltzness. What a coincidence that the richest and most obnoxious people on earth are the greatest and noblest victims. There is a final solution to jewish holocaust lies: NO JEWS. JUST RIGHT.]
None of this happened by accident. Quite the contrary, it was planned, it was designed. It took the active participation of an entire country to accomplish, not the workings of a few evil leaders.
 If they are “Holocaust revisionists,” I suppose someone who claims two plus two is five is a “mathematical revisionist.” We call the person ignorant, stupid or some other less than flattering word, but not a “revisionist.”
Consider — for shock value — what the reaction would be if a group of “antebellum revisionists” claimed African Americans were never slaves? That blacks were never sold, lynched, beaten, raped and bartered?
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Downplaying the Holocaust would be another tragedy
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | April 25 2006 | William Choslovsky
Posted on 04/25/2006 12:08:27 PM PDT by knighthawk
The Final Solution: Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Buchenwald, Terezin, Chelmno, Sobibor, Majdanek, Belzec, Polish ghettos.
Adolf Hitler’s Nazis murdered 6 million Jews — 6 million girls, men, grandmothers, babies, uncles, neighbors, women, fathers, friends, sisters, colleagues, cousins, lovers, boys, mothers, aunts — 6 million human beings. Though Hitler’s main target was Jews, he also exterminated 5 million other people, mostly Catholics, homosexuals, gypsies and the handicapped, to support his master race ambition.
For perspective, and to humanize each of the 6 million victims, consider this: If you read each victim’s name — taking just two seconds per name — it would take you 139 days to complete the task. Start and you will not finish until September. But that is only if you never stop to eat, drink or sleep, much like the conditions the victims endured.
Most perished (were murdered) quickly in the gas chambers, gallows or execution lines. The rest were forced to perform labor so excruciating the likes of which adjectives do no justice in describing. Then there were the rapes, beatings, heinous medical “experiments” and brutal, arbitrary tortures.
None of this happened by accident. Quite the contrary, it was planned, it was designed. It took the active participation of an entire country to accomplish, not the workings of a few evil leaders. It happened in the “modern era” in the most civilized of countries, and it happened for only one reason: because they were Jews. Somehow, a few survived.
Note, the above description is hollow, it is weak, it is inadequate. It is all I can offer in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is today.
Amazingly, there is a group of individuals who deny the Holocaust ever occurred. They are called “Holocaust revisionists.” If they are “Holocaust revisionists,” I suppose someone who claims two plus two is five is a “mathematical revisionist.” We call the person ignorant, stupid or some other less than flattering word, but not a “revisionist.”
Calling Holocaust deniers “revisionists” wrongly suggests there is room for debate. It lends credence to asinine assertions. We are talking historical fact, not policy debates or competing historical theories.
Ideally, the “revisionists” would not warrant any attention. As my grandmother Baba Bella used to say, “If you argue with a fool, that makes two.”
Unfortunately, some of the “revisionists” possess an air of credibility. Take Northwestern engineering professor Arthur Butz, who penned a book in 1976 denying the Holocaust. Butz recently garnered much attention when he was paired with the good company of the president of Iran questioning the Holocaust.
In a world that is often ill-informed, ignorance can pass as fact if left unchallenged. If supposedly credible individuals like Butz are not condemned, then the perpetual lie soon becomes “truth.” Our silence is the source of their strength.
Insulated by tenure policies, Butz peddles hate using his university-sponsored Web site. Northwestern can ban hateful speakers as it did a few years ago when it prevented hate-monger Matthew Hale’s attempt to speak on campus. Butz has a right to his soap box, but the university need not provide it for him.
Consider — for shock value — what the reaction would be if a group of “antebellum revisionists” claimed African Americans were never slaves? That blacks were never sold, lynched, beaten, raped and bartered? Suppose these “scholars” claimed the whole idea of a black slave trade was simply a hoax devised by blacks to garner sympathy. How would we respond?
I would like to think that I would be joined by everyone, no matter their ethnicity, in obliterating such a lie. I would like to think that the “revisionists” would be called racists.
Most important, the lessons of the Holocaust are hardly static. Today — not 1944 — synagogues are vandalized in Europe. The Arab press publishes articles stating that Jews use the blood of Muslim children in Passover festivals. Arab children use text books demonizing Jews. Foreign “news” organizations “report” America and Israel orchestrated the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Likewise, the lessons of the Holocaust are not limited to Jews. Long before Darfur, upward of 2 million Christians were butchered in the Sudan under the command, “convert or die.” Trains carrying Hindus are set afire in India. Jehovah’s witnesses are beheaded in the Philippines. A million Tutsis were murdered in Rwanda in 100 days in 1994. Coptic Christians are persecuted to near extinction in Egypt. Muslims were persecuted in Bosnia a decade ago. Saddam Hussein gassed Kurds. And so it goes. Millions killed not for anything they did, but because of who they were.
I relish the day when “Holocaust revisionists” like Butz can be dismissed and scorned, not given a university paycheck. Until then remember, two plus two is four. Do not forget it lest the victims of the Holocaust died in vain.
William Choslovsky is a Chicago lawyer.
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