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I couldn't agree more, but I would like to point out that the all too predictable mockery of his personal features isn't very helpful in defeating his arguments.
I mean, he's a stubby, chubby, rather silly looking person, and perhaps even I'm more 'Nordic' than him (and perhaps by his own reasoning he should bow down to what I say on historical matters!), but the most important thing is rather to reveal the basic errors at play in his scribblings. Going on about the facial features might be read as mere hurt pride or expected 'lashing out' from the sort he characterises as near sub-humans - almost proving him right, indeed.
I didn't DARE read the Spanish section. It's infamous. Perhaps when I'm in the mood to be appalled, dismayed and generally pissed off, I'll have a look through it.I´m reading right now about Spain in this March of the Titans crap and I´ve already noticed a good set of nosensical statements
But what the FUCK does this joker think he's achieving with all this? Is he mistaken, an honest fool? Christ, he'd be a perfect 'plant' put by our enemies to discredit simple decent nationalism, but I fear that our enemies have all their work done for them by our own crazies.
Exactly. The Rojos must love the man.
Oh man, he hints that the 'Latini' were 'Germans'... It's surely not worth my time to address EVERY point.
Acadian Driftwood has or had a signature on here something like;
'If your arguments are weak, just smother your opponant in bullshit.' And there's a good point there. You can attack by sheer quantity when quality is beyond you. Refuting bullshit is always harder work than concocting it.
Do you REALLY think the best response to such a stratagem is to waste your time going through every single point? I'm asking this as a serious question. I do at least try now and then to be sensible in what I choose to bother myself with, and what I will 'let slide'. I try to be at least partially 'politic'. As an example; Can certain bugbears of 20th Century history be defended and have they been slandered? Sure, but is it sensible and useful to expend effort on that at this particular moment in time? Might a concentration on certain issues do more harm than good? In such a vein, I believe that Kemp's work should be dismissed as quickly and effectively as possible, and we should move ON, rather than get bogged down in trivia.
As I see it, Kemp's message relies on him being perceived as a 'man who knows his history', a man who has penetrated to the true essence behing the facts. I find this hard to uphold, when I see what a poor master of facts he actually is.
There are STUPID mistakes in the book. REALLY STUPID! So much so, that it beggars belief. Isn't this enough to damn the whole message?
I'll take at least one of the points I summarily dismissed, to highlight again what the man is like with the facts;
The Khazars were a mixture of several peoples. NONE of which were from Anatolia. The Turkic element was from the Central Asian Steppe. The Jewish element had mostly come up from the Fertile Crescent via the eastern Caucasus, there was a local element of Hunnic/Sarmatian background, and probably a Caucasian base too. Their capital was in the Volga delta, but they had old settlements along the River Terek (which passes through modern Chechnya.Just plain wrong.Originally from Asia Minor (Turkey), the Khazars
How can we trust a man who makes such sorry mistakes? Has he done NO background reading? Has he read, but been too dense to understand the words in front of him? Did he write the whole book on the train to work, without any notes whatsoever?
To my mind, habitually linking to it does a good deal to discredit yourself and anything you might say, which is a damned shame.
Heh, but I'm afraid it's more this;as suggested by ullarsskald,
you may find this smilie appropriate:
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