(04-07-2014 04:50 PM)TonySandos Wrote: Looking at modern Chin in that light is dull witted at best. Those smaller nations that compose the larger Chinese republic today saw their lands as autonomous as any other country would. to attempt differentiating who is 'less bad' by who they went to war with, by those means, is intellectually dishonest
(04-05-2014 04:01 AM)Sp5 Wrote: 1. It does not appear that a website named "jewwatch" has a balanced point of view.
2. If the quotes are accurate, what do random cherrypicked opinions of people from 1919 prove? Some rabbi saying something in 1919 proves what? You could "prove" anything about Christianity if you picked enough strange quotes from priests and ministers over the years.
3. It's not surprising that Bolshevism, initially a small movement of urban intellectuals based on Marxism had a lot of support among Jews. First, the Jews lived in the cities and as I said, many were intellectual. Second, the Czarist monarchy was historically anti-Semitic and would unleash pogroms against Jews. Third, the Czars were despots whom a lot of people wanted to replace.
4. When Stalin established a Jewish region in the USSR, where did he put it? Way out in Siberia.
5. Jews ended up being persecuted by Stalin. The lone Jew at the top of the revolution, Trotsky, got killed by him. Later on, Stalin had scores of Jewish writers and doctors killed, see "the Doctors' Plot."
6. Toward the end, the USSR made life tough for Jews and established an official "Soviet Anti Zionist Committee."
(04-08-2014 01:33 AM)soup Wrote: Still don't really understand why all these people believe in god in the first place.
(04-08-2014 01:30 AM)All or Nothing Wrote:(04-05-2014 04:01 AM)Sp5 Wrote: 1. It does not appear that a website named "jewwatch" has a balanced point of view.
2. If the quotes are accurate, what do random cherrypicked opinions of people from 1919 prove? Some rabbi saying something in 1919 proves what? You could "prove" anything about Christianity if you picked enough strange quotes from priests and ministers over the years.
3. It's not surprising that Bolshevism, initially a small movement of urban intellectuals based on Marxism had a lot of support among Jews. First, the Jews lived in the cities and as I said, many were intellectual. Second, the Czarist monarchy was historically anti-Semitic and would unleash pogroms against Jews. Third, the Czars were despots whom a lot of people wanted to replace.
4. When Stalin established a Jewish region in the USSR, where did he put it? Way out in Siberia.
5. Jews ended up being persecuted by Stalin. The lone Jew at the top of the revolution, Trotsky, got killed by him. Later on, Stalin had scores of Jewish writers and doctors killed, see "the Doctors' Plot."
6. Toward the end, the USSR made life tough for Jews and established an official "Soviet Anti Zionist Committee."
I will admit that using a site whose name is "jewwatch" is not the best place to gather unbiased information on historical events.
Otherwise, you did not refute the idea that I put forward.
The idea being, a Jewish elite overthrew the Russian government in order to establish their own rule where they subsequently massacred over 20 million Christian men.
Rather, you made an attempt to justify what happened.
What I do not understand is why the Holocaust is a horrific event that occurred that cannot be justified while the genocide of 20 million Christian men at the hands of a Jewish elite is glossed over and can be totally justified.
(04-08-2014 02:21 AM)Sp5 Wrote: You did nothing to establish your idea.
Stalin was the absolute dictator of the USSR during the time of the kulak massacres, ruling by terror. If you don't know that "kulaks" means without looking it up, you are not equipped to discuss this matter. The kulaks were not killed because they were Christian, but because they were relatively wealthy landowners. Some of the kulaks were Jews. Stalin was not a Jew, he was Georgian.
(04-08-2014 12:22 AM)Wutang Wrote:(04-07-2014 04:50 PM)TonySandos Wrote: Looking at modern Chin in that light is dull witted at best. Those smaller nations that compose the larger Chinese republic today saw their lands as autonomous as any other country would. to attempt differentiating who is 'less bad' by who they went to war with, by those means, is intellectually dishonest
Even during the periods when China was divided up into seperate kingdoms such as the Warring States Period or the Three Kingdoms, people still saw themselves as Han Chinese. A person might have been citizen of the Kingdom of Wei or the Kingdom of Shu but they knew that Chinese is their ethnic identity.
(04-07-2014 11:08 PM)Faust Wrote: So on the surface, it seems like a fairly plausible argument! But Athlone McGinnis's article for RoK, which I assume was written in response, makes what seems to me to be a much stronger argument. He links their success to IQ and possibly cultural factors.
(04-08-2014 04:37 AM)berserk Wrote:(04-07-2014 11:08 PM)Faust Wrote: So on the surface, it seems like a fairly plausible argument! But Athlone McGinnis's article for RoK, which I assume was written in response, makes what seems to me to be a much stronger argument. He links their success to IQ and possibly cultural factors.
How do you think Athlone would react if I used the same arguments and said that the reasons blacks do the worst is because they are less intelligent and because of their culture?
This is why you need to be consistent in your arguments.
While a smart and well written guy like Athlone can get away with this kind of sophistry with a large number of readers, other smart guys are going to see the argument he is presenting and ask him to be consistent with it i.e. make the same argument for blacks but in reverse.
If he doesn't want to do that, then really, what weight does his argument carry - at all?
None.
(04-07-2014 05:45 PM)Hotwheels Wrote: Men just have a predisposition to kill each other. Has been going on for thousands of years.
Doesn't matter what race they may be.
(04-08-2014 06:06 AM)TonySandos Wrote: Indeed. Violence deserves it's own study or subdivision in collegiate studies. It's incredibly misunderstood
(04-04-2014 10:12 PM)scorpion Wrote: It's clear you're not a history buff, because nothing you wrote above is close to being accurate. Far from not letting Jews leave, the Nazis were actively encouraging Jews to leave the country throughout the 1930s. At the Evian Conference in 1938, over 30 countries met to discuss allowing German Jews into their countries as political refugees en masse.
Hitler's direct quote regarding the conference: "I can only hope and expect that the other world, which has such deep sympathy for these criminals [Jews], will at least be generous enough to convert this sympathy into practical aid. We, on our part, are ready to put all these criminals at the disposal of these countries, for all I care, even on luxury ships."
So not only was Hitler not closing the borders to Jews, he offered to send them away on luxury cruise ships. The problem is that no country in the West wanted them. Then the war broke out with hundreds of thousands of Jews still living in Germany. Hitler viewed them as a potential threat as spies and saboteurs, and interned them in concentration camps like the U.S. did with its Japanese population.
(04-07-2014 05:14 PM)Wutang Wrote: What about the Spanish in Central and South America or the British and other Europeans carving up Africa?
(04-07-2014 07:49 PM)tiggaling Wrote:(04-07-2014 02:28 PM)Samseau Wrote: I guess those Nazi arguments didn't work very well. The only thing comparable to the Nazi exterminations was the trail of tears, but even that wasn't close to the scale of the death camps.
Of course, there are many who say there never were any death camps. That movement seems to gaining ground and momentum, with this film coming out just recently.
http://gaschamberhoax.com/jewish-gas-chamber-hoax/
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(04-07-2014 07:49 PM)tiggaling Wrote:(04-07-2014 02:28 PM)Samseau Wrote: I guess those Nazi arguments didn't work very well. The only thing comparable to the Nazi exterminations was the trail of tears, but even that wasn't close to the scale of the death camps.
Of course, there are many who say there never were any death camps. That movement seems to gaining ground and momentum, with this film coming out just recently.
http://gaschamberhoax.com/jewish-gas-chamber-hoax/
(04-08-2014 12:01 AM)Sp5 Wrote: Another massive conspiracy depending on hundreds of thousands of people lying or remaining silent, including Generals Eisenhower and Patton, Field Marshal Montgomery and many many UK and US soldiers! Who knew?
(04-08-2014 08:48 AM)tiggaling Wrote:(04-08-2014 12:01 AM)Sp5 Wrote: Another massive conspiracy depending on hundreds of thousands of people lying or remaining silent, including Generals Eisenhower and Patton, Field Marshal Montgomery and many many UK and US soldiers! Who knew?
It didn't really take anyone lying or remaining silent on the allied side, as the death camps were only found on territory that the soviets captured. (such as in Poland)
This documentary does strongly suggest that Eisenhower was in on the propaganda to demonise the Nazi's, which is well documented.
And you are basically saying that you think that politicians like Eisenhower do not lie?
http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?page_id=1003
(04-08-2014 05:48 AM)Teedub Wrote:(04-08-2014 04:37 AM)berserk Wrote:(04-07-2014 11:08 PM)Faust Wrote: So on the surface, it seems like a fairly plausible argument! But Athlone McGinnis's article for RoK, which I assume was written in response, makes what seems to me to be a much stronger argument. He links their success to IQ and possibly cultural factors.
How do you think Athlone would react if I used the same arguments and said that the reasons blacks do the worst is because they are less intelligent and because of their culture?
This is why you need to be consistent in your arguments.
While a smart and well written guy like Athlone can get away with this kind of sophistry with a large number of readers, other smart guys are going to see the argument he is presenting and ask him to be consistent with it i.e. make the same argument for blacks but in reverse.
If he doesn't want to do that, then really, what weight does his argument carry - at all?
None.
I've PMd you some friendly advice.