tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post6546918760129637322..comments2024-03-28T13:37:26.314-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: The new LysenkoismGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-59457074468195560402015-06-21T09:57:10.020-04:002015-06-21T09:57:10.020-04:00When I was in my early 20s I first encountered som...When I was in my early 20s I first encountered someone--a coworker--who casually doubted that the Nazis had done anything all that evil or inexplicable under the circumstances ("Something really did have to be done about the Jews; they were running everything"). I remember that "Unclean! Unclean!" reaction I had to someone not towing the line on a truth I found so fundamentally undeniable, so completely a part of being a decent person. (I still do.) Certainly it wasn't something I could go on to discuss reasonably with him. I just avoided talking to him after that. In theory, I'd like to think I could look dispassionately at evidence that the Holocaust was some kind of fraud. I am capable of looking at evidence that puts it into the context of other genocides, so maybe it's fair to say that I'm not so far gone on the issue that no reason could penetrate. But reason would have to work hard to penetrate.<br /><br />But when I try to equate this conviction with a global warming conviction, I fail.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-55907757975448831982015-06-21T08:56:42.183-04:002015-06-21T08:56:42.183-04:00It seems to be human nature to pick some topics to...It seems to be human nature to pick some topics to lock in and turn into social acceptability measures, and no reason penetrates, at least for a time.<br /><br />How they happen and how they go away I don't know. I wonder if someone has written on the phenomenon in general.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.com