Revising History.

[2strokebloke]

Today I had a discussion about "Holocaust Deniers" and "revisionism" in general.
Two examples of revised history would be: The Holocaust Never Happened, and of course: The Moon Doesn't Exist, And We Never Actually Went There.

By these people's logic, they could say "Hitler invented ketchup packets" If you pointed out that Hitler had not invented the ketchup packet, they'd tell you something along the lines of "You're only saying this because you've been brainwashed by the Jew controlled media."

They can tell you that the moon doesn' exist, because you've never been there first hand, and if you point out that astronauts went there and brought back moon rocks, they'd tell you that they're not rocks from the moon, because the moon doesn't exist - so how could they get rocks from it?

Some people are so out of touch with reality, they'd believe and defend the above statements with made up history. It comes back to my idea about where all problems stem from: Stupid People.

[TexasF355F1]

These are the people that want everything bad, such as the Holocaust, taken out of text books. It's history and it happened. There's nothing you can do about it except learn from past mistakes. I'm with you man, these people have no sense of reality and need a reality check real fast.

[Oz]

It starts with stupid people. Then the stupid people gain power. With power they gain status. With status and power they gain money. They then have influence. And with all of these things they can easily influence the great unwashed masses' opinion.

Witness: Current US President.

[Steel]

2stroke: if you really wanna go nuts, check out the Flat Earth Society.

Yeah.


No joke.

[2strokebloke]

I already have. but debating science, is very different than history. Sure the majority of their theories are total BS, but some - you never know. History however is not as debatable, it is actual events that have been recorded, not theories.

[DGB454]

Where do you guys run into these people? You must live in some really strange places.

[Joseph1082]

I love History but am appalled at how biased it is. Very few things you read are objective... my case in point is the "glorious" American Revolution, which was actually quite different from how it is taught. There was nothing glorious about it; it was a rebellion and had it not succeeded would have been a minor blip on the screen.

[TexasF355F1]

Originally Posted by Joseph1082

I love History but am appalled at how biased it is. Very few things you read are objective... my case in point is the "glorious" American Revolution, which was actually quite different from how it is taught. There was nothing glorious about it; it was a rebellion and had it not succeeded would have been a minor blip on the screen.

Who taught you? I never heard it was glorious.

[Joseph1082]

Well, our Textbooks depict it as a good thing... Jefferson, Washington, are the American equivilant of mythical heros, today's Heracles or Jason or Achilles.
The books do not say it was an incideous rebellion by the malcontent ruling class of the colonies against their counterparts in the homeland. One thing they were mad about was that the British wouldn't let them expand into Indian lands, their allies in the previous war (French and Idian War). Greedy and Hungry, they rebelled.

[goat_launcher]

Originally Posted by 2strokebloke

By these people's logic, they could say "Hitler invented ketchup packets" If you pointed out that Hitler had not invented the ketchup packet, they'd tell you something along the lines of "You're only saying this because you've been brainwashed by the Jew controlled media."

People like this are the reason shrapnel grenades were invented.

[THE4TH]

i enjoy a good conspiracy theory but that's stupid

[l33tc4k30fd00m]

As stupid as it is. You have to admit it's very amusing to read about the "Great Jewish Conspiracy" and other such rot.

[CamaroSSBoy346]

These are the people that want everything bad, such as the Holocaust, taken out of text books. It's history and it happened. There's nothing you can do about it except learn from past mistakes. I'm with you man, these people have no sense of reality and need a reality check real fast.

The called liberals. Vote Republican!

[2strokebloke]

they're niether liberal, nor conservative - they're just plain nuts - they're members of the White People's Party, and other such idiotic organizations.

[Prelewd]

Is it bad that when I read the first post, I thought:

PETA, liberals, seattleites, etc..

?