A) Look the guy up. He is an anti-Semite. B) MANY anti-Zionists are anti-Semites. C) Calling Zionism "loathesome" [sic] makes you seem like one of the many.
A) Look the guy up. He is an anti-Semite. B) MANY anti-Zionists are anti-Semites. C) Calling Zionism "loathesome" [sic] makes you seem like one of the many.
Denial and revisionism are often the same thing. See: negationism. In the case of the Holocaust, the more it is investigated, the more horrible we realize it was. The numbers of those who died keep going up, and none of the scholars working in the field would call themselves "revisionists." It's too recent and…
So the real question is - are you the guy who M'bala pays to try and edit his Wikipedia page, or are you some other flunky?
Speaking of crossing lines, it seems like you're shifting from pointing out potential inaccuracies in the article to actually defending Dieudonne. You can call him a Holocaust denier or revisionist, but you're stretching it a little too far when you call him a comedian who's sparking important discussions. Let's not…
Did some grad work in this before getting too depressed. Yeah, you're bang on. Also, they claim that the Jews really died of influenza ersumshit not so bad ... somehow?
To be honest, France's always had a history of Anti-Semitism. It's even worse within the rather large Muslim community as you can imagine. Dieudonné is really making a business out of it and is a very polarizing figure round here.
Another inaccuracy to note, as details in journalism matter, Dieudonne is a holocaust revisionist (meaning he challenges the official account of the holocaust. Readers should know that is a crime in France to challenge the version set during the Nuremberg trial) and not a holocaust denier.
Either way, sir, this guy is clearly an anti-Semite based on comments. Reading up on this guy, it sounds like he is a real asshole and delusional. If American athletes were hanging out with David Irving, I think Americans would be pretty pissed.
Highest grossing comedian, really ? What's your source ?
There are a few commenters throwing around the term “Holocaust Revisionism”. Just a reminder:
Yes, but denying the Holocaust doesn't just cross that line, it takes a giant shit on it on its way across.
True, and that is the problem with the whole discussion, the idea of separating one from the other. I would say, in the case of this comedian, the anti-semitism becomes rather obvious pretty quickly. There is much to be said for criticism of Israel, but when you start calling Judaism "a scam," yet are willing to meet…
Not as much as people like you hope. There is also a profound overlap between anti-semitism and anti-Zionism.
Broadly, it's the idea that the Holocaust as the vast majority of the world knows it—the Final Solution and the systematic rounding up and killing of as many as six million Jews—didn't happen. Beyond that, it's a spectrum. Some say the Holocaust wasn't "that bad." Some say it didn't happen at all (without really…
How does Holocaust denial even work? Is it a denial that anything bad happened at all? Do they just deny the magnitude of it? Like some crazy person saying "Come on, it was only 1 million, 2 million tops. What's the big deal?"
Must be awesome entertainment when he brings a Holocaust denier on stage. Nothing funnier than the holocaust.
I think we're all up in arms because we've never seen a Frenchman cross the line, or any line, really, before.
Not exactly hard to believe when coming from the Nazis most enthusiastic collaborators.
Antisemitic holocaust-denying comedian? Sounds hilarious. He should join the members of the Westboro Baptist Church for a sketch comedy tour.
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