Why is it considered immoral to question the facts of the holocaust?
It is important to question the facts about anything and everything. I believe that everyone has the right, even responsibility, to question everything. Regarding my position about the Holocaust, by questioning it you are driven to learn more about it. That keeps it from being forgotten. Na bister o Porrajmos!!
1) It is not. But it is wrong to *deny* the Shoah (as the Jewish people prefer to call it) or to try to minimize it. And that were not only Jewish people, by the way. Further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust 2) “Holocaust denial is the claim that the genocide of Jews during World War II — usually referred to as the Holocaust — did not occur in the manner or to the extent described by current scholarship. Key elements of this claim are the rejection of any of the following: that the Nazi government had a policy of deliberately targeting Jews and people of Jewish ancestry for extermination as a people; that between five and seven million Jews were systematically killed by the Nazis and their allies; and that genocide was carried out at extermination camps using tools of mass murder, such as gas chambers. Holocaust deniers do not accept the term “denial” as an appropriate description of their point of view, and use the term Holocaust revisionism instead. Scholars, howev
It’s not immoral to question the facts. I think you mean is it immoral to question whether or not it happened. No, it’s not immoral – just uninformed. You don’t have to look very far to find opposing views on anything. For that one, however, you’ll have to check those white supremacist/nazi sites. You’ll be able to recognize them by all their member’s diplomas, showing they graduated from the third grade.
It is not immoral to do so – if you have real contrary facts to show. The Holocaust is well documented. As well as the physical evidence of the camps, of bones, of eye-witness accounts from survivors and of liberators, because of the nature of the Nazi regime there is copious documentary evidence. If you can find solid reasons to disprove this mountain of evidence, it would be correct to do so. But the Holocaust deniers are unable to do so. They depend on belittling the evidence of those who have suffered, and of those who rescued them, on reading the written evidence in a truly improbable way. Because the Holocaust actually happened, any attempt to deny it involves denigrating honourable and truthful people, some of whom suffered appallingly, and other who were traumatized by what they saw. De facto, because it did actually happen, would-be deniers are forced to immoral actions to justify their unpleasant beliefs.
