Revisionist Scott, who I believe has spent many years of his life denying the historicity of the Holocaust, recently wrote the following in the vigorous discussion about the Holocaust now taking place on Counter-Currents:
I conceded a long time ago that [Raul] Hilberg’s 5.1 Jewish million mortality figure could be true.
Wow! I think it’s very healthy that the issue is being aired on Counter-Currents. I very rarely comment on that webzine, but this time I did so given the importance of breaking the taboo that exists in certain quarters of the racial right, and the only way to achieve consensus is to start talking to each other.
In my opinion, even if the official figure of six million Jews killed in the Holocaust is true (which I highly doubt), that shouldn’t weaken our faith. As a Swede commented quite a few years ago on the previous incarnation of this site:
What is certain is that the Holocaust would not have produced any debilitating psychological effect on non-Christian whites. (By Christianity I mean ‘Christian morality.’ Most atheists in the West are still Christian, even if they don’t believe in God or Jesus.) Being emotionally affected by the Holocaust presupposes that you think: (1) Victims and losers have intrinsically more moral value than conquerors and winners, (2) Killing is the most horrendous thing a human can do, (3) Killing children and women is even more horrendous and (4) Every human life has the same value.
None of these statements ring true to a man who has rejected Christian morality. Even if the Holocaust happened, I would not pity the victims or sympathise with them. If you told the Vikings that they needed to accept Jews on their lands or give them gold coins because six million of them were exterminated in an obscure war, they would have laughed at you.
This passage was included on page 83 of my anthology On Exterminationism. I believe that the commenters on Counter-Currents, whether Holocaust deniers or Holocaust affirmers, have not reached the level of the Swede because of their Christian ethics.
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I tried to leave a comment on Counter-Currents linking to this article, but it seems—not sure yet; still waiting for Greg Johnson to reply to my email!—that Greg sent it straight to the spam filter.
No honest reply yet… Although I sent him several emails protesting that some of my comments likely went straight to his webzine’s spam filter, Greg has ignored me. If tomorrow he doesn’t answer my emails, I think Benjamin hit the nail on the head when he recently commented that Greg should ban trolls, not his ideological opponents!