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Originally Posted by boatin
When a number of TFPers ask serious questions about a serious subject, I find it very rude and patronizing to respond this way. You don't use any perjorative language, but comparing this to the holocaust (and by association, you compare some of us with the racist POSs that deny the holocaust) is pretty inflammatory.
When I first heard of people denying the holocaust, I did what I think anyone should do. I read, I asked, I explored. It didn't take long to conclude there was an infinite amount of evidence to prove the Holocaust deny-ers were idiots.
I *didn't* just spout what I had "heard". It costs nothing to open the mind, and check things out. One could argue that listening to the crazy/impossible is how progress is made.
To be extra-clear: the problem is not that people ask the question (about anything), the problem is when they deny the overwhelming evidence. I don't see the overwhelming evidence here, and I mostly believe a plane hit the Pentagon. Sheesh.
So that same process repeats. I ask, I read and I explore. And I'm told, essentially: "it happened; your question has no merit".
I was strangely hoping for more.
edited for clarity
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Interesting that you do to me what you accuse me of doing to you, i.e. accepting what I was *told* without questioning.
There are times when we
should question and times when questions are blatently foolish. There are also times when such questions are patently offensive.
Considering that I consider it extremely offensive to suggest that our own government intensionally blew up the pentagon and shot down the plane in the face of overwhelming evidence, I stand by my original post.
Edit to add:
Names aside (since I can't remember them off the top of my head), I consider that French journalist to be driven by the same forces as that Nazi lover that is the source of all the *facts* refuting the Holocaust, i.e. hatred of a people and culture.