Talk:Harry Elmer Barnes

Issues

Jacrosse, you are right - I have also not been using Talk, and people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, so lets start now. I have tried to compromise with you (agreeing to delete the Lipstadt quote about Barnes, etc.) but you are still systematically removing relevant information if it is at all negative about Barnes - the Ben Austin piece is directly about Barnes's role in Holocaust denial. Also, I am not sure why you deleted the name and dates of the journal articles you posted, which seem relevant. Finally, the Murray N. Rothbard piece is a stretch - it is a defense of revisionism, but it is not a defense of Barnes's views on the Holocaust, yet it comes after a sentence reading However, supporters of Barnes contend Lipstadt's methods to be heavy handed and the charge of holocaust denial to be a red herring, namely as a means of smearing any historian who takes a critical look at American involvement in World War II or any other war. That is pretty strong language, and pretty specific ("Lipstadt's methods [are] heavy handed" and holocaust denial as a "red herring") and they have no support at all in the Rockwell piece, especially as Lipstadt wrote her works two decades after the Rothbard essay.

I am going to restore the Austin link, but leave the Rockwell piece in for now, until we discuss it. --Goodoldpolonius2 16:25, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Revisionism and Barnes' legacy more specifically covers a lot more than just the Holocaust, but I suppose it can't quite penetrate your skull that anything should.--Jacrosse 01:54, 14 February 2006 (UTC)