Posted by Steve James on May 22, 2002 at 18:19:38:
In Reply to: Re: history has been orwelled posted by Mike on May 21, 2002 at 21:10:44:
Damn, where the hell did all these little holocaust deniers all spring from?
Anyway, I'm not responding to the fascists, after listening to all their old, and now rather cliched, bile you get bored of it after a while. Anyone arrogant enougth to believe that six million jews were not systematically murdered during WW2 isn't even worth a response.
I wanted to respond to Mike, who says that only "ill-educated," "low paid" people can believe in such things. By your desciption I would gather that you mean working class people? In my opinion, I would say that those most likely to fall into such beliefs are young middle class guys who, lacking personality or individuality, try to cling onto something - antisemitism for instance - to associate themselves with, and to give themselves any kind of identity.
You respond to this idiot's ideas by stereotyping those who don't quite have the opportunities that others may have. You substitute his prejudices against Jews with your prejudices against those of the working class.