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skull_bearer ([personal profile] skull_bearer) wrote2011-01-24 04:30 pm
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Hitler's Willing Executioners, p111

As a summary of the past 100 pages:



Seriously dude, where did you dig up this rubbish? Even I know better than this.

Here's a prime example, p71: "During the pre-genocidal era of European civilisation -- when consciousness of the mass human slaughter of the First and Second World Wars, let alone genocide as an instrument of national policy, did not exist --"

WTFBBQ WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN LIVING? I can't even start to point out what's worng with this sentance. Pre-genocidal -- PRE GENOCIDAL! What has the human race EVER been pre genocidal? Tazmania you dumb shit! Native Americans! WTF IS THIS FUCKING SO CALLED RESEARCH? Two words: YOU FAIL.

*deep breath* And this is bypassing the fact that he seems to think Germany operated in a hermetically sealed vacum in an Europe where everything was sunshine and flowers for Jewish people. And that Hitler was German. And that no one ever spoke up for the Jews in Germany. SPARTAKUS YOU DUMB GIT SPARTAKUS!

*facepalm x1000*

And he keeps on using "it is obvious that..." without showing sources! And daring people to prove that 'ordinary Germans' were not antisemitic! WTF is that that's CREATIONIST logic! And WTF is an 'ordinary German'?

GOLDHAGEN YOU FAIL AND I HATE YOU!

[identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com 2011-01-24 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
If I'd known you were intending to read Goldhagen, I'd have strongly recommended you not to bother!

Genocide?

English policy in Ireland in the 1630's and 40's
The St Bartholomew's Day Massacre
The Albigensian Crusade

How far back would you like me to go? :o(




[identity profile] skull-bearer.livejournal.com 2011-01-24 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
It was on the Royal Holloway reading list. I'd heard about this book being controversial but I wasn't expecting it to tbe so BAD.

[identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com 2011-01-24 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Could be they're _expecting_ you to be able to do a hatchet job on it? I've known lecturers work that way :o)

[identity profile] skull-bearer.livejournal.com 2011-01-24 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it's a controversy that's still going on to this day, we should at least know what its about.

Only reason I'm still reading the blasted thing, btw.