Reply #100: He yelled "Fire" in a crowded building [View All]

[Solly Mack]

He used words that HAVE...not might...not could...but HAVE murdered millions of people.

He didn't just deny the Holocaust. He denied every lie, every distortion, every bit of hate, ignorance ,and meanness that lead to the deaths of over 13 million people. When you deny the holocaust, you deny every single thing the Nazis did...you deny the everything Nazis were about.

Before Nazis started gassing so-called "undesirables", "threats to the nation", "the racially impure", "the rats", it was the words(those exact words) - the speeches, the propaganda, the rationalizations - that made the gassing easier.

Words helped to keep the German population in check while people were being murdered.

Germans recognize the power of words to bring people to action. To shape belief systems - dangerous belief systems...that can..and HAVE...killed millions of people.


The Holocaust started with words of hate - it ended in genocide.

Rwanda started with words of hate - it ended in genocide

I live in Germany and I can say anything I want to say - what I can't do is promote hate or deny history.

Gee...I can't promote hate and lie about history...I am so deprived.

Americans, of which I am one, are just so accepting of people who promote hate and those who deny history - and then whine about the results from promoting hate and denying history. Oh, gee.. "How did it ever get so bad here?"

"I can't believe it's happening here"

"Why are Americans so stupid?" (Gee, maybe it's all those lies they've been told - in school, by their parents, in society - the same lies that have been going on for years that breed generational ignorance and fear...and it is the fear that leads to the horrible acts of violence against another)

"Don't they see what the right wing is doing?"

"How can anyone still support Bush?"

"How can anyone still believe Iraq was responsible for 911?"

"How do we combat all the lies? all the myths? all the distortions that are hurting our country?"


It ALL starts with words.

Words carry responsibility. You can't yell "Fire" in a crowded building. You might not agree that denying the Holocaust is yelling fire in a crowded building but in Germany it is.