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What I mean is that you need better than pictures with quotes. If we're going to make this whole idea fly, we're going to need proper documentation and scholarly archive work. Right now none of those quotes are properly documented or precisely cited.
The present form:
"This is a quote."
- A. Author
The proper form:
"This is a quote."
- Anthony Author, Generic Report, Ch. I, p. 57 (City: Publisher, DATE)
I'm looking at this in my capacity as a scholar and academic. I'm interested in the documentation and the documents, not the individual compiling them or his fate. I take for granted anyone questioning the story is going to get thrown in jail: that's the risk you take challenging the mythos. Five hundred years hence, I'd have expected a heretic to be condemned by the Inquisition and then handed over to the secular authorities for judgement, be it imprisonment or execution - what happens to him is irrelevant to the materials he wrote, which I would be interested in reading and either refuting or reviewing. You forget, I don't believe in rights or free speech - you have the rights your government grants you; you have none inherent to your person, because the concept doesn't exist without government, which man creates, which is not a priori. I'm not going to suspend my rejection of Liberal ideology just because it suits my desire to research a controversial topic.Originally Posted by Hess
I am interested in questioning the Holocaust mythos, because while it is an important identity myth to the Jews, it is history to me - to be treated like all other history: objectively, in order to discern the truth of it. I therefore want primary source material to analyse and critique - I'm sick of second-hand stuff, that's where all the mythology comes from. I want the raw material, not the products of other researchers.
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