There are many websites which call what they do Historical Revisionism. What makes them different from normal academic research?
1. Academic research, though short of perfect, allows for discussion of conclusions. Various viewpoints based on angles of research are presented. Those who label themselves historical revisionists are just that. Their goal is to revise history. Open discussion is not encouraged.. It's like historical research under Hitler or Stalin.
2. Academic research must stand up to peer review, that is, others who have researched the same subjects. Historical revisionism is written for an audience that wants to justify certain conclusions.
3. Academic research that is respectable is emotionally neutral. There is a level of self-discipline that is expected of those presenting factual information.
4. Historical revisionists lack a sense of proportion. If they find a flaw, they state the baby and the bathwater must go out the window.
While as individuals we like to support the underdog, sometimes that can be dangerous as the underdog role might be calculated to manipulate. The historical revisionist information needs to be subject to the same rigorous standards we use to accept information from others. It's obvious that we are not getting unmanipulated information from sources we are supposed to trust. That doesn't mean we need trust everyone who says the same words. The world is more complex than that.
The following is taken from a historical reivionist's website. Is this neutral research? The emotional tone can be turned against any group that the author wishes to attack. Are you prepared to defend yourself against this kind of emotional attack for whatever stand you are taking?
www.fixedearth.com/HISTREV.HTM
Historical Revisionists who have been
driven by a desire to see Truth prevail over deception have already been thru
Boot Camp and are toughened for this battle of battles. Whatever our backgrounds and present
beliefs, let us answer this highest of all callings and faithfully do the job
for which we are uniquely qualified.
That job is to confirm--and then amplify and broadcast in all ways
possible--the esoteric, Christ-hating, perversion-spreading, justice-denying,
arrogant teachings of the Talmud (basics HERE), and then do
likewise to the Kabbalistic pseudo-scientific machinations behind NASA’s Big
Bang paradigm and its promotion of evolutionism thru its tax supported
“Origins Program” (basics HERE, HERE, HERE,
&
HERE.)
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Is Holocaust revisionism anything but Holocaust denial?
I think it is.
<< I hardly
see any revisionist/denier claiming that the Holocaust never happened, just
that it was hyped. >>
Wasn't it?
<<La Raza's claim of the "Kosher Nostra scam" is a complete
fabrication.>>
Oh? How so?
Bill.
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