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Dear "revisionists", where are all the Jews?
A couple of months ago, I had a discussion with the self-proclaimed "revisionist" @SecureSignals concerning the veracity of the Holocaust, always a fun topic.
There was a bit of back-and-forth on the archaeological evidence and witness testimony, which I eventually gave up on because SS (very subtle username, by the way) clearly knew much more about the subject than me, and could thus, as the saying goes, drag me down to his level and beat me with experience. Calculating the number of corpses that can fit in a given volume definitely felt like I was being dragged down a few levels.
A more fruitful line of questioning is that of where millions of Jews disappeared to. In response to SS's accusation that:
I said:
SS replied with arguments as to why the "official narrative" on Treblinka is implausible, which I was unable to argue against because, as I said, I'm not familiar with all the details of every Nazi camp. It is possible that the consensus figures for a single camp are wrong. As in the Jasenovac example, this has already happened (though it should be noted that most of the victims at Jasenovac were not Jewish). Even if true, this is at most evidence that the consensus on Treblinka is incorrect. It says nothing about the other camps, where the vast majority of the murders happened. In my reply, I said:
As far as I can tell, SS never addressed any of this. It seems some of the comments in the thread have since been deleted, which apparently hides all child comments when viewing the thread directly, though they are still visible on the profile page. This makes it hard to reconstruct the exchange, but looking at SS's profile, I can't find anything where he addressed my argument. From his post below on Holocaust education, we can infer that he does indeed believe that not just Treblinka but the entire Holocaust is fake, a position for which he has not provided any evidence.
So, to SS and any other "revisionists" who may be lurking: Where are all the Jews?
Can we have a moratorium on making top level posts to answer to specific threads? What the hell is the point of retelling a conversation that is a couple posts downthread and everyone can read? And it's like the third time this thread people are trying to reset this particular conversation or something. This is getting ridiculous.
You're not even answering multiple people, this could literally be a reply.
I personally love the tradition of continuing threads and arguments in top level posts. One of the strengths of the Motte is having long form arguments about serious topics. Where else can you find this style of argumentation online?
If you want to only have arguments on the controversial topic of the week, there are plenty of other places besides the Motte.
Some time ago a bunch of people were complaining about how the revisionism threads are crowding out other conversation. My sympathy for them has just dropped below zero.
Fair point, I’m not the biggest fan either. I’d like to see other topics continued on throughout the weeks though.
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Yeah but this feels very much like a 'I am losing the argument or getting insufficient support down in a reply thread rabbithole but I would like to take it back up to the top in search of reinforcements.' kind of a vibe, which IMO isn't what's really desired.
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