Inquisitor wrote:...
Wow - that is some exchange! I note the obligatory trotting-out of our old favorite "so where did all the Jews go, then" canard. As Hannover is rightly fond of saying, they went where Jews are (or were)! I reside in the Northeastern United States. Hardly a day passes here, even now these seven decades after the war, that some news of a "holocaust survivor" isn't in the papers, on the TV, etc. That so many "survivors" exist to this day, all over the world, is blindingly obvious as well as living, flesh and blood testament to the fact that not only was there no policy or attempt to "exterminate" Europe's Jews, but that the "where did they all go" question is a historical red-herring at best.
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Yeah, I ran into this several times as well. What's that fallacy called again?
It's kind of saying:"I can't give you any evidence that 6 Million Jews were killed/gassed, but you can't account for each single Jew that vanished. That brings us onto an even keel." That assumed that Jews indeed "vanished" and that there is some parity of burden of proof on both sides of the argument. No mentioning that such an outrageous accusation would require a thorough investigation based on solid proof placing the burden of the accusers. But that doesn't bother them, since they parrot what the presently powerful are saying and not the vanquished.
Funny enough none of us would actually be able to account for the hundreds or thousands of people they met during their life's. Does that now mean that those people were killed or gassed, hardly. But then there is no persuasive, repetitive claims being made that they were. So actually "perception is all that there is" in the mind of the audience. However we do demand solid, testable proof without interference by courts, police, civil society or trauma people may have or project.
