Archie wrote: ↑Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:18 pm
Nessie wrote: ↑Mon Apr 07, 2025 7:23 pm
Archie wrote: ↑Mon Apr 07, 2025 7:01 pm
Facepalm
Are you suggesting this story was fake? If so, you are a moron. If not, why are you suggesting it is? Stop wasting everyone’s time with your idiocy.
I said that a newspaper headline is a very weak form of evidence. I emphasised that with a rhetorical question, where I knew that the answer would be, no. The point was to show how different forms of evidence has different strengths, which I am sure you know. Hearsay, is weak. Forensics are strong.
Convergence of evidence usually mixes the two, but it should conclude with the strongest evidence. The newspaper headline is very weak evidence that comes at the very start of the Nazis coming to power, with no indication yet, war would eventually break out. It is weak circumstantial evidence, whereby German Jews were being repressed and attacked by the Nazis, and some American Jews wanted a boycott. It is very early evidence of motive and opportunity, that will eventually converge with further actions by the Nazis against the Jews, to prove motive and opportunity for the criminal act of mass murder.
In this case, it’s not weak. It’s an article about something that is
extremely well attested. If you had even basic textbook level knowledge of the Third Reich you would know about the boycott and you would not be challenging a reference to it simply because it’s in a newspaper.
Brilliant, so you do know about and use the convergence of evidence.
You know that there is evidence that corroborates and converges to prove that Jews from outwith Germany, primarily the USA, had called for an international boycott of Nazi Germany, because of its treatment of Jewish Germans.
The Daily Express 1933 newspaper headline, on its own, is weak evidence. It needs to be evidenced, preferably from corroborating sources, to prove that the claim it has made is correct. The same applies to the earliest news reports of mass murder by the Nazis, that started in 1941, from the Polish intelligence service to the Government in Exile in London. Like the Daily Express, their claims need to be checked and verified and the most accurate way to do that is, corroborating, converging evidence. Eyewitnesses, documents and circumstantial evidence converge to prove that some Jewish organisations and people boycotted Nazi Germany. It is then proven that the headline is factually incorrect, it should read that Judea declares a boycott, not war. It is a clickbait headline.
Why do you use convergence of evidence for the Daily Express headline, but not for the Polish Intelligence reports, on what was happening to Jews under Nazi rule?