In the May 1998 issue of Instauration, one reader vents his wrathful feelings that
"... gassings with Zyklon B are absurd and assembly-line gassings are physically impossible. ...there is no evidence of an extermination attempt, only rumors and coerced confessions ...from what I learned elsewhere, I became conviced that the Jewish Holocaust is somewhere between 99.99% and 99.9999% bull."
Well, that is one man's opinion, pundits will point out - and as an undergraduate suffering through Stat 101 you learn that one man's opinion is "anecdotal" and, hence, "worthless".
What counts are polls - to the extent they are controlled for variables and are not skewed by polling architects' biases.
Now we all know that there is no bias in a poll, let's say, conducted by the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., as reported in an article in the Colorado Spring Gazette of April 23, 1998. We accept these statistics with awe, and I quote:
* Twenty-one percent of Americans don't know or aren't sure whether Jews were killed in gas chambers, although the Nazis exterminated 6 million.
* Nineteen percent answered "false" when asked whether the Holocaust took place during World War II; another nineteen percent weren't sure.
* Seventy one percent are under the false impression that the United States granted refuge to all European Jews who asked.
* Asked why it is important to study the Holocaust, answers included to prevent another Holocaust, understand the dangers of persecution and hatred, and learn potential consequences of abuse of power.
* While 66 percent of those asked said they want to learn more about the Holocaust, minorities were the most enthusiastic; 79% of blacks said they want more information; and 75 percent of Latinos said they did."
Writes the ZGram reader who sent me this clipping:
"This has got to be the most stupefying, staggering and exciting story of the year - if not the decade. After the survey a few years ago finding unacceptable levels of "denial", which (the Jews) bulldozed the Roper outfit to redo and come back with the proper 5% or so, we get this. Now - if there were only some way to reach/motivate/organize those upwards of 38% doubters..."
Just give it time. Just give it time.
And they say that the Revisionist movement has made no impact in America?
Thirty-eight percent of doubters means that there are roughly 95 million (!) people out there who have been exposed to Revisionist information of one sort or another that made them doubt the Spielberg version of the so-called "Holocaust"!
And from Forward, May 1, 1998, according to a poll conducted by the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, surveying 500 each of Jews and Blacks, we get even more interesting stats:
* 61% of Blacks and 59% of Jews think schools do not teach enough about the Holocaust
* 49% of Blacks think Jews should devote a larger share of their resources to improving the well-being of Blacks, whereas only 36% of Jews think they should.
* Should Afro-Americans do more to silence anti-Semitism from within their ranks? 69% of Jews think so, and 61 % of Blacks agree.
That means that 4 out of 10 Blacks and Jews, respectively, have had their fill of Holocaust education - and that opinions vary as to who should pay for what.
Some time ago, I discussed with my Black friend, Anita, the time-honored Czarist ID-ing practice of who was a Jew and who was a Gentile - by simply pulling down his pants.
There was a shocked silence on the other end of the telephone, and then Anita said quietly: "They think of everything - don't they?"
Well, even that is changing.
In Instauration, August 1998, we read that 90% of newborn males in the US were circumcised in 1968. Today the percentage is down to 64%. In most Western European nations it is 5% to 8%.
Still, think if it: 3,300 of these barbaric, obscene, extremely painful and utterly unnecessary operations are performed daily in the US.
You can learn and infer a lot from statistics and numbers. For me, one of the most telling numbers I have recently come across is that the State of California in its praiseworthy generosity bestowed $900,000 to the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance in Los Angelese to set up a website.
Trust me that I don't need nearly that much to run the Zundelsite - and people who support me don't get a tax advantage.
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital."
(Aaron Levenstein)