| Spam Scone 2005-04-07, 6:08 pm |
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Nick wrote:
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> Spam Scone wrote:
Nick, I have removed my name from the subject thread in an attempt to
control the latest outbreak of Philth Innes trolling.
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> As I recall, in his scholarly history, 'The Destruction
> of the European Jews', Raul Hilberg (who's Jewish) has
> arrived at the total of 5.1 million (rather than the
> usually cited six million) deaths of Jewish persons
> as the consequence of the Nazi genocide.
>
> One academic historian of my acquaintance prefers in
> his university lectures to say that 'between five and
> six million Jews were killed'.
>
> Of course, the possibility that the usually cited
> total of six million Jewish deaths could be somewhat
> high does *not* absolve the Nazis of their moral
> responsibility for that genocide.
Of course.
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> My comment here is not intended to be about the dispute
> between Neil Brennen and Phil Innes in particular.
Thank you.
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> I have heard at least several distasteful 'jokes' about
> the genocide in such countries as Cambodia and Rwanda.
> It seems to me that some people regard those kind of
> 'jokes' as more acceptable when the genocide's victims
> were not Europeans.
>
> "If he hadn't been such a good friend, I would have
> laughed out loud. You must be kidding, I said.
> *No one in America gives a damn about Rwanda.*"
> --Deborah Scroggins (Emma's War, p. 330)
> (Deborah Scroggins is a white American journalist
> who has covered news stories in Africa.)
Genocide is hardly a laughing matter, whereever it happens.
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