Posted on 05/03/2002 11:16:02 PM PDT by Hoppean
It may be insensitive, but isn't that a factual statement? I have read a lot of books about world war II, and very few discuss the holocaust. I would bet that if you took all the books written about WW2, that for most, the holocaust would generate only a few lines of discussion. We just don't know the context here. LePen could have been talking about WW2, and then asked a detailed question about the holocaust, to which he gave the above reply which is just saying "I don't know that much about it".
Jean-Marie LePen
Assuming that history books should have quotas like that, finbe. Note however, that LePen did not say that the holocaust "should" be a detail in books about WW2. He said that it "was" a detail. Is it inconceivable that someone could have that perspective?
I have probably read thirty books about WW2 in my life, and I would say that in at least 75% of them, the holocaust is only mentioned a few times. I am not saying this is right or just, I am saying that is what I have read.
I don't think it's so much about quotas (I was just throwing that figure out as a possibility) as it is about relative importance. Six million Jewish civilians are about as important as seven million Russian civilians, they should receieve equal coverage.
It's very strange to say the gas chambers should only receive 10-15 lines of text in a 1000-page book purporting to cover the whole of WWII.
No, he was talking about an imaginary book, if he were to write a book about WW2, that's how it would be.
I recently read an article where there was an outcry because some country or other, I think it was Hungary, opened a "Holocaust Museum" that, *gasp*, actually made reference to other (i.e. some not affiliated with Nazi actions) attempted genocides and mass slaughters as "Holocausts." The outcry was that doing so 'Diminished the particular significance of the attrocities involving the Jews.'
Such whining arrogance and self-absorption tends towards becoming loathesome when you come to realize that they'll never stop talking about "it".
Le Pen told me, "Jews have conspired to rule the world through their power over international finance. They are using their influence over government and media to promote mixture with lesser races and corrupt the purity of Europe's blood. The Jews created communism and tried to use it as a means of world domination. Today, 'the Jewish conspiracy' is using race rather than communism to advance its goals."
On May Day, 10,000 students from a Jewish group marched in the streets against Le Pen. Why do you think they don't want Muslim immigration stopped?
Why don’t the Jews want Muslim immigration stopped? Don’t you know?
You’re so funny Larry, you just can’t tell the truth, or paste an entire paragraph honestly can you, just have to work on your agenda. As RR said, “There you go again”. Here’s the link, LE PEN EARTHQUAKE IN FRANCEhere’s the entire paragraph, I’ll highlight what you left out. You do Carville and Emanuel credit, did you train under them? Do you think all freepers, except your chosen few, are stupid? But in his more relaxed moments, Le Pen's views become far more extreme. It’s not so bad that Margolis called him extreme, you’re feelings shouldn’t be hurt. You shouldn’t be afraid to let freepers read those words. Just because your source thinks Le Pen is an anti-semite, that's not so bad.
But in his more relaxed moments, Le Pen's views become far more extreme. He is an equal-opportunity anti-semite. Le Pen despises both Arabs and Jews. Le Pen told me, 'Jews have conspired to rule the world through their power over international finance. They are using their influence over government and media to promote mixture with lesser races and corrupt the purity of Europe's blood,' claimed Le Pen. 'The Jews created communism and tried to use it as a means of world domination.' Today, 'the Jewish conspiracy' is using race rather than communism to advance its goals.'
BTW, I think you’re a bigot.
Most of his FR supporters forget that these racial biases of his would be legislated. Higher pay for racially pure French, better housing, etc. And we're talking citizens here, based on their background, not immigration.
Justin Raimondo seems to be the only one... Jew or what? If you mean, he's the only one to see an irony in whatever, I wouldn't believe it. The guy is an absolute shit-for-brains lefty pseudo-intellectual.
As to the "some Jews" raging against Le Pen, they're plain idiots, same as Raimondo. No ethnicity or religion is able to prevent this disease.
Visualize Willis Carto as the conservative wing of the Republican Party and you'll get what I mean.
Strictly looking, he is - since the Arabs are also Semites.
But too much strictness often leads to absurd. Anyway, Le Pen's dislike of Jews doesn't offend me. It's a prejudice, not a crime, and not the only one to be found around. I don't demand all the people to like me just because I'm a Jew.
What I'm really pissed off by, is by the hypocrisy of the (French, and not only) Leftists, whose silence when the synagogues were burnt was deafening. Only when Jospin's ass was kicked by Le Pen did it occur to them to defend Jews. Mind you, not from the Muslim perpetraitors of firings and bombings. Many of this third-worldists continued to sport their checkered Arab diapers during the rallies "in support of the Jews"!
And from 1798 to 1801 we were fighting...........the French.
The Quasi-War with France: First Foreign Fight
The USS Constellation and Delaware capture the French Le Croyable, July 7, 1798.
This is what I think exactly. I am really angry that they denied the United States use of French air space in operation Desert Storm. There are some French patriots who we can trust, but the Leftist Internationale among them (their government) are no better than the Fascists, National Socialists, and Soviet Socialists when it comes to the well-being of the United States.
If LePen wins, we may have a friend in France again...
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