Oliver Stone: Holocaust Blown Way Out of Proportion by Jewish Dominated Media

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The relativists in this thread surely wouldn't mind if they got tortured to dead after I took all their possessions. After all, according to them, it all doesn't matter anyway.

Relativism is funny.

This thread was meant for thoughtful discussion, not for you to launch various snide attacks on other posters who have a different while you admittedly have very little information about the events involved.

I think we can all agree that the Holocaust was bad. It was more than that - horrible, awful, despicable.. whatever.

However, there have been a multitude of other ethnic cleansings in human history, many of them occurred during WW2 on a larger scale than the Holocaust. What is its true historical significance, nearly 70 years removed from the event? Why does the Holocaust get so much attention and even its own special name? Some have suggested it was the method of the killing; others seem to think that it was the place. Mr. Stone believes it is because Jews have a lot of influence in the media.

This paragraph demonstrates the basic assumption that always confuses me in these kind of discussions. Someone please tell me how exactly you define "the Jews"? Are we talking about Israeli citizens, various nationals of a certain genetic heritage (and how much such material qualifies) various nationals who self-identify as such, or various nationals of a certain religious persuasion (and which branches qualify)?

I am referring to self-identified, usually ethnic Jews.

Why are these people (apparently uniquely among human groupings) so completely focussed on a single, agreed agenda?

I don't know what Mr. Stone believes, but I think the focus has been a more subconscious, almost protective, reaction to what happened to them.

I don't think it is.
The WWII genocide (of which the Holocaust makes up the biggest part) is the ultimate point 0 in the History of mankind.

I could not disagree more, unless we were to agree that there were hundreds, even thousands, of ultimate point 0's in the History of mankind. There was nothing particularly new or different about the Holocaust, other than possibly the mechanics of it.