tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post8097072324692348955..comments2024-03-20T07:25:58.202+00:00Comments on Holocaust Controversies: Inconvenient History's Joe Bishop Wants to Kill JewsNicholas Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14852758011968360596noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post-31338574117488029432011-01-18T22:32:37.096+00:002011-01-18T22:32:37.096+00:00Far more than would have heard of him otherwise.
...Far more than would have heard of him otherwise.<br /><br />These things are relative, remember.Andrew E. Mathishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057529769573506419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post-59047142478979189132011-01-18T22:21:38.274+00:002011-01-18T22:21:38.274+00:00"With Holocaust denial, he found what he coul..."With Holocaust denial, he found what he couldn't do through genuine talent — he became a writer and he became famous."<br /><br />Seriously, outside of the rev/anti-rev puddle who in RL has heard of Bradley Smith?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post-26401792141380513402011-01-18T00:40:31.289+00:002011-01-18T00:40:31.289+00:00It takes an extreme level of cognitive dissonance ...It takes an extreme level of cognitive dissonance on Bradley's part to write this sentence:<br /><br />"He is one of those revisionists who, while they understand that the gas-chamber stories are a historical fraud, feel a nostalgic loss over the fact that Hitler did not do, or even want to do, what he is accused of doing."<br /><br />So Bradley denies not just Hitler's acts but his intentions; yet he talks to neo-Nazis who share those same intentions that he denies in Hitler.<br /><br />Moreover, we know, and Bradley must know, that many neo-Nazis embrace the genocide and applaud it. <br /><br />Bradley must thus believe that Hitler's own modern-day supporters have misread Hitler's intentions, and have admired him based on a false premise.<br /><br />Such are the logical twists that Bradley must make to stay sane.Jonathan Harrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07929794273877529591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post-59393356957473338432011-01-17T21:54:38.307+00:002011-01-17T21:54:38.307+00:00Bradley is not that difficult to figure.
He wante...Bradley is not that difficult to figure.<br /><br />He wanted to be famous since he was a kid. Wanted to be a great writer. Unfortunately for himself, he's a mediocre writer and couldn't sell books.<br /><br />With Holocaust denial, he found what he couldn't do through genuine talent — he became a writer and he became famous.<br /><br />I agree that he is without much of the anti-Semitism of many other deniers. But if there's any such thing as guilt by association, then Bradley is guiltier than most.Andrew E. Mathishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057529769573506419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post-48120881179892170922011-01-17T21:48:51.766+00:002011-01-17T21:48:51.766+00:00Then I suppose I should ask, Jason, is he really s...Then I suppose I should ask, Jason, is he really surprised that so many of his fellow-travelers are anti-Semites and generally sympathetic to Naziism?Ian Thalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15348768867561450314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post-37818045041952500762011-01-17T19:05:34.292+00:002011-01-17T19:05:34.292+00:00Not to my knowledge. When I was a revisionist and ...Not to my knowledge. When I was a revisionist and had the opportunity to engage privately with Smith, he always kept the same approach. I did not detect any signs of antisemitism. <br /><br />Smith, though, isn't very involved in revisionism, but merely makes noise about the free-speech issue. It's almost a certainty that if there was no perceived "dogma" surrounding the Holocaust, he would not take part with revisionists. <br /><br />Smith just seems to love creating controversy. Perhaps that is the failed writer coming out, unable to make a name for himself through his works, so he turns his attention elsewhere. Who knows. <br /><br />I do think Smith might be one of the most reasonable revisionists. His circle of associates, however, go against almost everything he supposedly stands for. The CODOH forum prohibits real open debate, his CODOH authors engage in antisemitism, etc...<br /><br />A very odd character.Jason Myershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315463581646057876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24597325.post-19627052304947872002011-01-17T18:35:56.929+00:002011-01-17T18:35:56.929+00:00I've never really been clear on how Bradley Sm...I've never really been clear on <i>how</i> Bradley Smith maintains this strange double-think where he is so insistent on denying the Holocaust, claiming that there is a vast international conspiracy devoted to falsifying the historical era, and yet he seems to present himself as so opposed to antisemitism.<br /><br />He's been maintaining this position for decades, how does he do it? Does he ever falter?Ian Thalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15348768867561450314noreply@blogger.com