Archie wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2024 4:17 pm
Nessie wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2024 8:54 am
I see plenty of others pointing out the logical flaws in revisionist arguments.
Not really. You are the only one who does it as an excuse to avoid actual debate. For instance, on the chemisty, most would try to dispute some of the actual points, try to summarize the arguments of Green, etc. None of that is necessary with your approach where you assume your conclusion and then say anyone who disagrees with you is doing fallacies, etc.
There is no end to your misrepresentation of my argument. I do not debate the chemistry, because I am not a chemist. I see others who are not chemists, debating the chemistry, as if somehow, they know what they are talking about! I also see revisionists debating witnesses, archaeology and other evidence, as if they know what they are talking about.
It is fine to not be an expert and discuss something, but when a non-expert challenges an expert, then they need to be self-aware enough to know that the chances are that they are wrong.
On the contrary, more than anyone else, I engage with the actual substance of the arguments you make.
You want to argue history, as you line up your excuses for dismissing 100% of the eyewitnesses to gassings as liars and fail to find a single witness who was there, who you believe. Inconvenient documents are dismissed as faked, or strange, unevidenced interpretations applied, or code words reinterpreted whilst criticising the claim they are code words. With no relevant training, archaeological evidence is examined and dismissed. You cannot even produce an evidenced, chronological history of events that comes to a conclusion.
It gets repetitive, because you keep on repeatedly relying on the same old, logically flawed arguments.
You do not address the substance of the arguments. You ignore what is being argued and fall back on generic rules that you made up or that you have heard somewhere and are applying inappropriately.
I address the substance of the arguments, by pointing out they are logically flawed, they are not back up by the historical evidence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
Argument from fallacy is the formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false.[1] It is also called argument to logic (argumentum ad logicam), the fallacy fallacy,[2] the fallacist's fallacy,[3] and the bad reasons fallacy.[4]
And it is all the worse with you since most of your fallacy identifications are incorrect, i.e, you have lots and lots of false positives. It's a "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" situation. When you try to engage in the debate on a substantive level, you lose, so instead you make these generic, all-purpose arguments.
You say that and then quote me contradicting you. I have not argued that merely because revisionists use logically flawed arguments, therefore they are wrong. I have argued that they are wring because they use logically flawed arguments AND the evidence contradicts them AND they cannot evidence what they are alleging happened.
1) The Holocaust is proved, by witness, documentary, physical, forensic, archaeological and circumstantial evidence. Revisionists cannot evidence the alternative of millions of Jews alive in 1944 and liberated in 1945, which, if it had happened, would have left a lot of evidence and a lot of people and countries, in whose interest it would be to promote that evidence.
2) It does indeed not matter that you are not satisfied with descriptions of gassings, cremations and mass graves. Your opinion on the technicalities of such, have no evidential value. Since you cannot evidence what happened, you rely on arguments about those technicalities, using an obviously logically flawed line of reasoning.
3) Who are the "experts" and what do they disagree on? Historians and archaeologists are in universal agreement. Revisionists are all over the place, with the Kremas being used to store corpses, delouse clothes, shower people and act as bomb shelters and the AR camps as transit, hygiene, customs and property sorting centres.
4) Revisionist treatment of the witness evidence ignores decades of scientific study and experimentation into memory and recollection. They allege the Nazis were cowards, who sheepishly lied that they had committed horrific crimes and that millions of Jews, from every single European country have lied they saw gassings, or lied by omission and kept quiet that they were not gassed and saw out the war in a secret Nazi camp.
The whole point of what we are doing is to analyze precisely that all of this supposed proof for the Holocaust. And that is what you style of "debate" is designed to avoid.
I know you want to analyse the evidence that "supposedly" proves the Holocaust. What you want to avoid, is debate over your method of analysis. You do not want to hear that it is wrong.
This goes back to what I said above, and revisionist inexperience. When you analyse witness testimony, you bring no expertise whatsoever to the debate. You completely ignore all the science and experimentation that witness evidence, memory and recollection has been subjected to and declare 100% of witnesses to gassing lies. That conclusion is proven to be faulty and I explain why that is. You then bizarrely demand that we debate the witness evidence, whilst you use your faulty analysis!
I want to highlight this part,
It does indeed not matter that you are not satisfied with descriptions of gassings, cremations and mass graves. Your opinion on the technicalities of such, have no evidential value. Since you cannot evidence what happened, you rely on arguments about those technicalities, using an obviously logically flawed line of reasoning.
-It has nothing to do with "me." If NO ONE ON EARTH can explain it satisfactorily this is indeed good reason to doubt it.
It has everything to do with you, as it is you who thinks that no one on earth can provide a satisfactory explanation. You are joined by others, revisionists, who also think your way. It is what you base your Holocaust denial argument on, your belief that because you think no can provide a satisfactory explanation, therefore it did not happen. You assume that it is impossible to provide a satisfactory explanation. I, and many others, are satisfied with the explanation. We do not then arrogantly then claim, therefore gassings happened. We believe gassings happened, because of the evidence they happened.
-Note that he always personalizes it "your opinion" etc. He fails to distinguish between a random, unsupported statement of opinion and an informed "opinion" or conclusion based on extensive research and data.
400 page book full of detailed technical arguments - "That's just like, your opinion, man."
You could dismiss ANY book with this bogus logic.
Rudolf supports his scientific opinion with some experimentation and arguments, but, he is not supported by the historical evidence. Markiewicz and Green's scientific opinion is also supported by the historical evidence.
-He says the findings have "no evidential value." This guy talks about evidence all the time and he doesn't know what evidence is. The walls ARE evidence. Chemical results from those walls ARE evidence. The technical specifications of the buildings ARE evidence. What sort of fans the LKs had IS evidence. Everything that might have some influence on the conclusion is evidence. No only is this evidence, it is some of the most objective evidence that we have.
It is evidence that mass gassings, which lasted for minutes, not hours, in rooms packed full of people, that are ventilated and the walls are washed and at times painted, does not leave as much residue as some may think it should and nowhere near as much as was found in delousing chambers.
He wants us to ignore hard evidence in favor of Jews telling stories.
You reveal your bias, agenda and that you are happy to misrepresent and minimise the volume of evidence for gassings, which does not just come from Jewish witness testimony.