Holocaust denial

[Gandalf]

I have no reason to support anything. A Google search will provide you with a list of different authors and their various estimates. I don't need to convince anyone of any of this. It's too obvious.

Also, the argument that the native indian issue is closer to you personally is a bit silly. Maybe for your ancestors who were living in difficult times and experiences hardship, but you here today? It's like me saying my grandfathers experiences in WW2 bring me closer to the experience of war. Of course it does not. My own personal reading does.

Masscres, concentration camps, ethnic cleansing, people dying from hunger and starvation. I struggle to see how this was not comparable to the holocaust. The issue you have is with timescale and disease, but most concentration camp members would die because of hunger and disease. Then of course you factor in those murdered and you have a horrendous catastrophe. It was genocide and in terms of scale you can easily compare it the holocaust.

The black plague is a strange argument to make because it really was just about disease. There was no invasion, no massacres, no slaughtering etc. Quite distinct. The North America genocide was far more similiar to the holocaust than the Black Plague. US history likes to downplay the crimes involved in creating America. It is understandable, but it is also untrue. We speak of Hitler and Nazi Germany in far more derogatory terms and yet the very invents that inspired Hitler originated in North America. What better way to deal with a group of people? The connection should be made because the parallels are quite obvious. The concentration camp is not a German concept.