[Peace-discuss] What I Learned On This List

[Carl G. Estabrook]

Ah, I deeply sympathize: every time I try to get people to talk about the real political issue of the day - viz., the denial of the Armenian genocide - they keep coming back to our responsibility for dead kids in Pakistan and Gaza.  --CGE


On Nov 24, 2012, at 10:13 AM, David Gehrig <david-cu at nukulele.org> wrote:

> Ah well, I tried. And it's been enlightening.
> 
> Here’s what I’ve learned. When encountering Holocaust denial in one's
> own community for the first time -- and encountering it on the left
> not the right -- the proper response, according to replies from the
> list of the self-proclaimed anti-racism organization, is to do the
> following "anti-racist" things:
> 
> (a) begin with a fusillade of gratuitous and off-topic insults aimed
> at anyone, you know, actually bothered by Holocaust denial
> 
> (b) immediately change the subject to, say, the JFK assassination
> 
> (c) immediately change the subject to, say, Norman Finkelstein
> 
> (d) immediately change the subject to, say, South Africa
> 
> (e) immediately change the subject to, say, 9/11 trooferdom
> 
> (f) immediately change the subject to, say, Israel
> 
> (g) immediately change the subject to any other damn thing under the
> sun but (h) smother any on-topic discussion of that Holocaust denial
> as an instance of racism in our community and (i) tell the one who is
> offended by the racism that *he’s* the bad guy.
> 
> This is anti-racism?
> 
> I believe there are many good people on this list. Yet the replies I
> got were off-topic spiraling whatsits from David up-is-down Green and
> a pair of Johnsons. If firemen fought fires the way these guys fight
> antisemitism, CU would be ashes.
> 
> @%<
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