With all the Middle East threads...

your subtlety was understood by some. however, mein kampf wasn't number 5 on the best seller list.

I missed the best seller point too. But I'm still a genius.

[Edited on Nov 25, 2003 by SpaceInvader]

Max and Silentium:

Yes, I noticed the part about it being on the best seller list. That still doesn't necessarily prove anything. If a Stephen King book is a best seller in the US, does that mean that Americans are bloodthirsty satanists? No, it doesn't. boyo.

Hmmm...a large number of people born and raised to a fanatical, suicidal hatred of the Jewish people suddenly buying up large numbers of a newly translated Mein Kampf doesn't strike you as a little bit more than a coincidence or admiration for Hitler's writing style?

Look, you can bury your head in the sand all you want and say Palestinians buying Mein Kampf in droves means nothing. But that would be...naive i think is the only polite term i can come up with...to think that.

[Edited on Nov 25, 2003 by Max16Characters]

You seem that you're already convinced that Palestinians are fanatical anti-semites, so why do you need to appeal to bestseller list to prove it?

I don't think it means nothing, I think it proves nothing. My head is not burried in the sand, I'm perfectly aware of that fanatacism, but I'm opposed to an over simplified black and white view of the world and I'm not prepared to generalize about a large group of people based on a bestseller list.

Has anyone actually read any or all of Mein Kampf? I haven't, so I'm wondering what it says exactly before I decide about the implications of it being a best seller. Not that I don't think it's content is probably offensive, just that until I know for sure what that content is I don't know for sure if the different sides of this discussion are naive or alarmist. I'm just trying to fully understand the issue, not deny anything or offend anyone.

And before anyone attacks me, the Holocaust did happen and was, IMHO, the single worst atrocity humans have ever commited against other humans.


*edited for spelling and to remind everyone that I am a fucking genius



[Edited on Nov 25, 2003 by SpaceInvader]

Why?

clicky.

[Edited on Nov 25, 2003 by Jeff_Fries]

Look, Jeff, perhaps i'm just not that bright this evening, having skipped my morning coffee and all, but i am interested in what you have to say in the matter, whether i agree with you or not.
If googling it will give me some new info that's germane to the subject at hand, that would be helpful. I don't want to go on some wild goose chase for no reason, though.

Not trying to be a dick here, just give me some kind of idea of your point before offering up a blind use of search engine as proof of point.
- S.

I've read a bit, it's a mess. It's not that I needed any more proof that Hitler was a lunatic, but Mein Kampf brings it to a new level.

You can read it here if you want. Although, I would never recommend it.

OK, now I really don't understand. What relevance does this have to the subject at hand?

Yeah, please tell me that's not where you get your news.

[Edited on Nov 26, 2003 by troglodyte]

, fer chrissakes.

To paraphrase "TheOnion.com" "Why don't we stop calling the mideast conflict and start calling it the mideast culture?"....not my words people