Supporting Holocaust Denial
The American Jewish Committee isn’t very happy to see Amazon-Germany supporting authors of Holocaust denial books. The AJC is disgusted enough actually that WebProNews reported that they’ve filed a lawsuit against Amazon-Germany.
Holocaust denial is not only morally reprehensible but also a crime in Germany — a crime punishable by up to 5 years in prison. What’s perhaps even more shocking is to read on people’s blogs some of the comments left suggesting this is free speech and that Amazon should be allowed to sell books like this. If someone killed your mother, father, brother, sister, … Would you appreciate a book being written about it, pretending it didn’t happen and/or glorifying it?
Amazon could learn a thing or two from eBay and the negative press they received up until 2001 when they banned the selling on Nazi memorabilia and Holocaust denial books. I’m not sure what the current situation is with Facebook (I don’t use it), however last I heard, Holocaust denial was A-okay so long as it wasn’t illegal in the countries of members taking part in it.
I’m not sure what’s wrong with Amazon lately, however they’ve sure been making a lot of bad choices Earlier this week, Amazon deleted what they claimed were unauthorized copies of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm books without the permission of Kindle owners who had downloaded them.
I can’t understand how companies can be so unaware of the consequences of their actions. If you did a cost-benefit analysis on what little money you make from fringe users versus how costly damage control when a situation like this comes to light may be, it doesn’t make any sense economically even if you have no moral compass whatsoever like these corporations.
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July 25th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
This is disgusting, Amazons greed to bring in even more money, even if it comes at the morally dead expense of promoting reprehensible books and people
July 26th, 2009 at 10:23 am
55,000,000 Christians died in WWII, and they have been silently mourned and honored ever since. 6,000,000 Jews also died in WWII, however their deaths have since been turned into a multi billion dollar a year industry. When some of my fellow Jews stop cashing in on the Holocaust, nutbag anti-semites will lose the financial incentive to cash in on anti-semitism.
Holocaust fatigue is a very real problem, and it seems to getting worse by the year. People like Steven Spielberg that have turned it into currency, will tell you if you we remove the spotlight from the Holocaust it will be repeated. Obviously this is a lie, as it’s already been repeated all over Africa, but of course Spielberg doesn’t care.
Jason Cohen