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History Holocaust Holocaust denial Politics Skepticism/critical thinking World War II

Wingnut of wingnuts: Vox just can’t help himself

Well, well, well. Remember about a year ago, when Libertarian wingnut Vox Day shot himself in the foot big time by using a warped logic to argue that because it was “possible” for Hitler to round up six million Jews in four years then it’s not “impossible” for us to round up 12 million illegal […]

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Entertainment/culture History Movies World War II

Giant Nazi robots!

Since today seems to be World War II history day on the old blog, I just can’t resist posting this little gem for geeks: A full resolution version can be found here. Of course, the nitpicker geek in me can’t help but point out that, not only is the Swastika on the left arm of […]

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History Holocaust Skepticism/critical thinking World War II

Skepticism undermined by an insufficient knowledge of history

I’ll admit it. There have been at least two times since I started blogging that I fell for a dubious story because I exercised insufficient skepticism. The first time occurred very early on in my blogging history when swallowed a story about how legalization of prostitution was claimed to lead to the requirement that unemployed […]

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Anti-Semitism History Holocaust World War II

It’s that day again!

Andrew reminds me that today is a very special day. Yes, indeed, it’s the day that everyone who detests fascism should celebrate: Fuehrerstodestag! (Otherwise known as “Dead Hitler Day.”) Yes, 62 years ago this hour, Adolf Hitler, Fuhrer of the Reich, finally cornered, his nation in ruins, offed himself in his bunker in Berlin as […]

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Anti-Semitism History Holocaust Holocaust denial Science World War II

Embarrassed through insufficient skepticism?

A while back, I posted about news reports that teachers in the U.K. were reluctant to teach about the Holocaust because of fears of offending the sensibilities of certain parts of the population. The subtext, of course, was that Muslims were the ones who would be offended. I lamented that such sensitivity might be causing […]