reply to post by gravitational
Shall we start counting the number of threads and posts you made, bashing US and Israel, glorifying and praising Known terrorist groups, or
giving justification to the Holocaust?
Yes, please do. I have never "bashed" the US, as that is my country that I love and that I have sacrificed for. You won't find a single post here
on ATS or a single blog, paper, essay or writing anywhere, where I have bashed the US or glorified a terrorist group. Not one single politician is
"the US", nor is a political party or even the government itself, especially a government that subverts the Constitution. Although certain
influiences would have you believe that bashing a politician is bashing a country, it isn't and certainly not in a republic, to which the US of
America is by charter. The United States of America the country, is the people here in America and it is the Constitution which charters us. As a US
Army veteran and retiree, I took an oath to uphole the Constitution, my country, as opposed to a politician, political party or policy thereof. Not
speaking out against unConstitutional matters or politicians who subvert the Constitution is in effect, bashing the US.
You see, it is the responsibility of every American to hold our government accountable and speak up when they break or subvert the Constitution, the
supreme law of the land which establishes us. We don't live under a monarchy, where king is country, rather we have a democratic republic, where the
people - and charter- are the country. Ignorance would have you believe otherwise.
Furthermore, I have never once justified the Holocaust, as my own family members suffered at the hands of the Nazis.
I have however put context to the issue, as this is a site for denying ignorance. Just because something may not fit in with your world view, doesn't
mean that you should ignore or obfuscate the truth. The truth is the truth, regardless of whether you like or agree with it.
The old "I don't agree so it's wrong" bit, is tired, unproductive and well... ignorant. You can either look for the truth in things and
situations, or you can ignore it because it doesn't fit in with your world view, and the choice is going to decide whether you embrace or deny
ignorance.
So, just because I put a reason behind the Germans anti-Jewish sentiment, you think I'm justifying it? Would you rather ignorance to prevail and just
assume they hated the Jews because well... their Jewish?
It is that attitude and outlook on things which pretty much exposes you as a child, one who lacks any kind of objectivity when coming to conclusions
or even forming opinions and that is the hallmark of an uneducated mind.
And then you roll your eyes with amazement, asking “proof of what ? “
That's right, "proof of what?" What are you demanding proof of? The article? The fact that I wouldn;t be surprised if the Kurds were being backed
by western or Israeli intelligence agencies? You can't really prove an emotion, though I certainly provided evidence as to my feelings. It would
appear that you simply don't agree with it, therefore you ignore and obfuscate that evidence.
Very little in this world is provable, though we can draw theories about a lot of it based on evidence surrounding our experiences. If you could prove
a theory, then it would no longer be a theory, rather a fact.
So again, I ask proof of what? Proof of my ponderance? I have provided evidence to back up any basis of theories in post and the rest is not really
provable, nor was it implied as such.
You think you are smarter than the rest of us because you hold the flag of righteousness and the ability to twist history in front of ignorant
crowd.
That statement is kinf of irrelevant, given the meduim to which we exchange information.
The process of data exchange or learning is the process of one person who has information, relaying that information to others who don't. It is how
human beings are taught, whether intentionally or not. Do I have information that I believe others don't? Absolutely, otherwise I wouldn't post. Is
that not the purpose of the site? You seem to be having a problem grasping that notion, as is apparent with your inclination to not like the exchange
of information that doesn't fit your world view (i.e. your apparent and admitted issue with discussing the context of the Holocaust)
It is becoming apparent that you simply want people to post things you agree with or already know and that is kind of counter-productive and
pointless.
The issue of someone being smarter than another is benine, as this is the whole reason for coming to this site in the first place. Do I have
information to share, so that others may learn and can I learn from others who may information that I don't. If I'm simply looking for people who
are posting information that is already known to me, then I'm not learning and if I reject information that doesn't appeal to me, then I'm
embracing ignorance. It really is as simple as that.
As far as twisting history, it is already twisted, just ask any historian. It's not really a secret that history is often recorded differently than
it actually happened. You can claim that I twist history all you want but until you offer logical discourse in your opposition to whatever history you
think I have twisted, your words really mean little.
What I do do however, is offer theories and then offer evidence to those historical theories. It is up to the reader to weigh the evidence or research
further (to which I even provide outlets) and then decide if they subscribe to my theory or not. If you feel that I am wrong in my theory and that you
can poke holes in it (in a logical manner), then I envite you to do so, so long as it is rational and logical. However, simply stating "you're
wrong", "that's offensive" or "that can't be right because it goes against my biases" doesn't cut it and does absolutely nothing to further
intellectual debate.
You can;t ignore something because you don't agree with it or it doesn't agree with your biases. That is childish thinking, like ignoring the peas
on your plate because you don't like them. Just because something doesn't agree with your biases, doesn't mean that it shouldn't be evaluated or
is wrong. It's called objectivity and until you embrace objectivity, you will embrace ignorance.
--airspoon