The guy who runs the site at the link was questioning its authenticity.
I've come across the guy's work on the internet before and I do not think he is a Holocaust denier in any way.
He specializes in democide and if memory serves has concluded empirically that dictatorships and utopian ideologies commit more genocides than liberal democracies. This conclusion led him to re-consider his politics.
If this is the guy, I think it is, he is no denier and has done good work. He just screwed up on this issue. As soon as he got information demonstrating the authenticity of the photo, he posted it.
Odd. Looks like the server clock was out of whack for awhile there. Two comments at posted with future dates (one here and one in another thread). Anyway, my comment should come before Dexter's second in case there's any confusion.
I didn't mean to imply anything against the operator of the site, quite the contrary. If one follows the link, you'll see that he had the picture posted, then removed it when doubts were raised, then re-displayed it. I think the process is interesting. I think it's a good idea to be cautious with such things (there's some question as to whether that particular soldier is aiming at that particular person as the perspective is hard to figure, but that doesn't mean the picture as a whole is false). The story of the provenance of the photo is an interesting one.
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I'm curious: Who was saying it wasn't?
The guy who runs the site at the link was questioning its authenticity.
I've come across the guy's work on the internet before and I do not think he is a Holocaust denier in any way.
He specializes in democide and if memory serves has concluded empirically that dictatorships and utopian ideologies commit more genocides than liberal democracies. This conclusion led him to re-consider his politics.
If this is the guy, I think it is, he is no denier and has done good work. He just screwed up on this issue. As soon as he got information demonstrating the authenticity of the photo, he posted it.
Solomon:
I know you weren't intending to harass the guy. I just wanted to make sure people didn't harass the guy for his mistake, which was an honest one.
Still, it was a legit post on your part.
A little bit more legwork on the guy's part would have prevented a dust-up.
Odd. Looks like the server clock was out of whack for awhile there. Two comments at posted with future dates (one here and one in another thread). Anyway, my comment should come before Dexter's second in case there's any confusion.
I didn't mean to imply anything against the operator of the site, quite the contrary. If one follows the link, you'll see that he had the picture posted, then removed it when doubts were raised, then re-displayed it. I think the process is interesting. I think it's a good idea to be cautious with such things (there's some question as to whether that particular soldier is aiming at that particular person as the perspective is hard to figure, but that doesn't mean the picture as a whole is false). The story of the provenance of the photo is an interesting one.