Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi all! We have been experiencing an issue on site where threads have been missing the latest postings. The platform host Vanilla are working on this issue. A workaround that has been used by some is to navigate back from 1 to 10+ pages to re-sync the thread and this will then show the latest posts. Thanks, Mike.
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

When did Gemma O Doherty go batshyt crazy?

1262729313290

Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,156 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    To be honest you should be ashamed for having defended her in the first place. It's not like this is her first vile hateful tweet.

    Tbf those who defended her before probably arent that outraged now


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭Achasanai


    Hold on, calling it a "false flag" is not necessarily hate-mongering. Can anyone prove it WASN'T?


    You can't prove a negative. And anyway, the onus is on O'Doherty to prove her theory, not the other way around.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭Mongfinder General


    The ladies swoon at that sort of talk, they need a real man such as yerself to tell them what's what. :rolleyes:

    I think he wants to give her a damn good seeing too. I think she went bat **** crazy when her husband died.

    Some of the stuff on her page lately is nuts. 5G conspiracy, anti vax, etc. she has a massive hard on for John Waters. Her reaction to yesterday's events probably puts her in the loonie tunes bracket of politics.


  • Registered Users Posts: 592 ✭✭✭one world order


    She was correct about the MSM using these attacks to turn people against each other. It wasn't long ago when the US and Britain were funding extremist groups in Iraq and Syria which grew into ISIS. As the MSM continues use these attacks to divide people, we will be distracted from the plans of our luciferian worshipping controllers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,156 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    She was correct about the MSM using these attacks to turn people against each other. It wasn't long ago when the US and Britain were funding extremist groups in Iraq and Syria which grew into ISIS. As the MSM continues use these attacks to divide people, we will be distracted from the plans of our luciferian worshipping controllers.

    Now this is more like it from Gemma fans! Semite and Tom and co. ye can come back now One World Order gave ye the get out of jail conspiracy theory ye needed!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,076 ✭✭✭gman2k


    She was correct about the MSM using these attacks to turn people against each other. It wasn't long ago when the US and Britain were funding extremist groups in Iraq and Syria which grew into ISIS. As the MSM continues use these attacks to divide people, we will be distracted from the plans of our luciferian worshipping controllers.


    There is a bridge somewhere missing it's troll


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,104 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    She was correct about the MSM using these attacks to turn people against each other. It wasn't long ago when the US and Britain were funding extremist groups in Iraq and Syria which grew into ISIS. As the MSM continues use these attacks to divide people, we will be distracted from the plans of our luciferian worshipping controllers.

    Kalergi plan
    Un pact
    Globalist cabal
    Cultural marxists
    Unicorns
    LGBT paedophiles
    False flags
    Soros traitors
    5G Wind Turbines
    Vaccines cause autism


    Have we hit bullsh it bingo yet. Are we there yet? Any more to add?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    She was correct about the MSM using these attacks to turn people against each other. It wasn't long ago when the US and Britain were funding extremist groups in Iraq and Syria which grew into ISIS. As the MSM continues use these attacks to divide people, we will be distracted from the plans of our luciferian worshipping controllers.

    Is that you Gemma? Only other person I've ever seen use the word Luciferian.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,494 ✭✭✭francois


    gman2k wrote: »
    There is a bridge somewhere missing it's troll

    Don't feed it


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,041 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Is there a mod deleting posts in this thread?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,909 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    She was correct about the MSM using these attacks to turn people against each other. It wasn't long ago when the US and Britain were funding extremist groups in Iraq and Syria which grew into ISIS. As the MSM continues use these attacks to divide people, we will be distracted from the plans of our luciferian worshipping controllers.


    There's something deeply unwell with this post


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,494 ✭✭✭francois


    The Nal wrote: »
    Is there a mod deleting posts in this thread?

    I think so, I made a rather intemperate remark, probably deserved to be removed


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,331 ✭✭✭jeremyj1968


    Gemma does a lot of good work and I agree with her on a lot of things. But I think she's jumped the gun on this one, if you excuse the awful pun. There is not enough evidence to call it a hoax, so I don't think she should have been so quick to call this as a hoax. I've seen the video and it looks legit, there are a few oddities (like him shooting through the front windscreen which does not appear to crack), but not enough to start shouting "hoax".

    One thing is for sure though. This event will be used to shut down all reasonable questioning of Islam. And there are questions that need to be asked. We just voted in gay marriage here a few years ago, but on RTE radio the head of the Islamic Cultural Centre in Clonskeagh Ali Selim (i.e. a senior Muslim leader and teacher) said that being gay is a sin, and any gay man should repent and change his ways. How can these two ideologies co-exist? Nobody wants to ask the hard questions, it's ignored by the media. After this shooting anybody asking reasonable questions about Islam will be simply lumped into the same category as the shooter and the debate will shut down.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,283 ✭✭✭KikiLaRue


    Gemma does a lot of good work and I agree with her on a lot of things. But I think she's jumped the gun on this one, if you excuse the awful pun. There is not enough evidence to call it a hoax, so I don't think she should have been so quick to call this as a hoax. I've seen the video and it looks legit, there are a few oddities (like him shooting through the front windscreen which does not appear to crack), but not enough to start shouting "hoax".

    One thing is for sure though. This event will be used to shut down all reasonable questioning of Islam. And there are questions that need to be asked. We just voted in gay marriage here a few years ago, but on RTE radio the head of the Islamic Cultural Centre in Clonskeagh Ali Selim (i.e. a senior Muslim leader and teacher) said that being gay is a sin, and any gay man should repent and change his ways. How can these two ideologies co-exist? Nobody wants to ask the hard questions, it's ignored by the media. After this shooting anybody asking reasonable questions about Islam will be simply lumped into the same category as the shooter and the debate will shut down.


    Um, I don’t know if you’re familiar with Catholicism, the dominant religion here in Ireland, but they also believe being gay is a sin.

    What good work would you say Gemma has done lately? Because all I’ve seen her do is tweet conspiracy theories, lob insults at groups she doesn’t like, and then block anyone who points out the fallacies in her theories.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,076 ✭✭✭gman2k


    Gemma does a lot of good work and I agree with her on a lot of things. But I think she's jumped the gun on this one, if you excuse the awful pun. There is not enough evidence to call it a hoax, so I don't think she should have been so quick to call this as a hoax. I've seen the video and it looks legit, there are a few oddities (like him shooting through the front windscreen which does not appear to crack), but not enough to start shouting "hoax".

    Gemma does not do 'any' good work anymore. The last time she wrote anything substantial was when she was employed as a MSM journalist!.
    When you say you agree with her "on lots of things" I immediately discount you, as any reasonable person could not agree with any of her stances.
    By the way, the way you throw some doubt on the shooting "there is not enough evidence to call it a hoax" is heading down the false flag route.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,655 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Gemma does a lot of good work and I agree with her on a lot of things. But I think she's jumped the gun on this one, if you excuse the awful pun. There is not enough evidence to call it a hoax, so I don't think she should have been so quick to call this as a hoax. I've seen the video and it looks legit, there are a few oddities (like him shooting through the front windscreen which does not appear to crack), but not enough to start shouting "hoax".

    One thing is for sure though. This event will be used to shut down all reasonable questioning of Islam. And there are questions that need to be asked. We just voted in gay marriage here a few years ago, but on RTE radio the head of the Islamic Cultural Centre in Clonskeagh Ali Selim (i.e. a senior Muslim leader and teacher) said that being gay is a sin, and any gay man should repent and change his ways. How can these two ideologies co-exist? Nobody wants to ask the hard questions, it's ignored by the media. After this shooting anybody asking reasonable questions about Islam will be simply lumped into the same category as the shooter and the debate will shut down.

    Hasn't this been the belief of the majority of Christian beliefs for centuries?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,104 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Gemma does a lot of good work and I agree with her on a lot of things. But I think she's jumped the gun on this one, if you excuse the awful pun. There is not enough evidence to call it a hoax, so I don't think she should have been so quick to call this as a hoax. I've seen the video and it looks legit, there are a few oddities (like him shooting through the front windscreen which does not appear to crack), but not enough to start shouting "hoax".

    One thing is for sure though. This event will be used to shut down all reasonable questioning of Islam. And there are questions that need to be asked. We just voted in gay marriage here a few years ago, but on RTE radio the head of the Islamic Cultural Centre in Clonskeagh Ali Selim (i.e. a senior Muslim leader and teacher) said that being gay is a sin, and any gay man should repent and change his ways. How can these two ideologies co-exist? Nobody wants to ask the hard questions, it's ignored by the media. After this shooting anybody asking reasonable questions about Islam will be simply lumped into the same category as the shooter and the debate will shut down.

    Once upon a time Gemma used to be an ok journalist married to a migrant.
    She did some good work highlighting the penalty point issue.
    Its really hard to say what else of her work is good because she has gone so extreme in her hate mongering and a lot of her hate mongering is tin foil hat conspiracy so you would have to question the veracity of her claims about Niall Molloy, Mary Boyle, Veronic Guerin and Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

    I dont think she jumped the gun solely on this. I think about 3 or 4 years ago that happened.

    The truth is Gemma and Grand Torino are radicalising people to do what was done in Christ Church yesterday.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,041 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Hasn't this been the belief of the majority of Christian beliefs for centuries?

    Yup. "grave sins", "under no circumstances can they be approved".

    Homosexual acts weren't decriminalised until 1993 and homosexuality wasn't removed from the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders until the late 70s.

    Bloody Muslims.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    gman2k wrote: »
    There is a bridge somewhere missing it's troll
    Maybe it's just me, but anytime I see "MSM" used my bull**** detector tends to get real sensitive. I'm not saying the mainstream media in Ireland in particular doesn't regularly enough run with its own particular biases depending on their ownership, but yeah "MSM".... Nope.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,076 ✭✭✭gman2k


    Wibbs wrote:
    Maybe it's just me, but anytime I see "MSM" used my bull**** detector tends to get real sensitive. I'm not saying the mainstream media in Ireland in particular doesn't regularly enough run with its own particular biases depending on their ownership, but yeah "MSM".... Nope.


    I'm using MSM in an ironic sense, as it was good enough for O'Doherty to take their beans for long enough before they got sick of her sh1t.
    Now she rails against the "MSM" as if it's all controlled by a globalist devil worshipping cult.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭theguzman


    She's a troll, yes she speaks alot of common sense but then she goes and ruins it all by being a conspiracy theorist and making some disgustingly outlandish claims.

    She is positioning herself as Ireland's version of Katie Hopkins and Alex Jones. She's chasing the money and tapping into the hunger for Alt-Right media driven by the MSM going full Marxist.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,325 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Gemma does a lot of good work and I agree with her on a lot of things. But I think she's jumped the gun on this one, if you excuse the awful pun. There is not enough evidence to call it a hoax, so I don't think she should have been so quick to call this as a hoax. I've seen the video and it looks legit, there are a few oddities (like him shooting through the front windscreen which does not appear to crack), but not enough to start shouting "hoax".

    One thing is for sure though. This event will be used to shut down all reasonable questioning of Islam. And there are questions that need to be asked. We just voted in gay marriage here a few years ago, but on RTE radio the head of the Islamic Cultural Centre in Clonskeagh Ali Selim (i.e. a senior Muslim leader and teacher) said that being gay is a sin, and any gay man should repent and change his ways. How can these two ideologies co-exist? Nobody wants to ask the hard questions, it's ignored by the media. After this shooting anybody asking reasonable questions about Islam will be simply lumped into the same category as the shooter and the debate will shut down.

    It's not like any of the nutjobs are asking reasonable questions. You go online and their entire understanding of Islam comes from memes that were created on 8chan.
    Not of on those fcukers has read any actual books about Islam. None of them have ever talked to a Muslim. They've never visited a muslim country. Their entire knowledge of a group of a billion people is made up of racist caricatures.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    theguzman wrote: »
    She's a troll, yes she speaks alot of common sense but then she goes and ruins it all by being a conspiracy theorist and making some disgustingly outlandish claims.

    She is positioning herself as Ireland's version of Katie Hopkins and Alex Jones. She's chasing the money and tapping into the hunger for Alt-Right media driven by the MSM going full Marxist.

    And just like that Gran Torino eejit, as verified by a mod who knows him in real life, it is all likely an act as (to paraphrase game of thrones' fantastic quote on these types) these people would happily watch the world burn if they could profit off the ashes. She and her likes are an absolute cancer on society, and while to be clear I am not calling for her death of violence (her type absolutely feed off of and list after that carry on so they can rush to their reliable old victim card), there really is no denying that the world would be a better place without her, or her counterparts, in it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭theguzman


    Billy86 wrote: »
    And just like that Gran Torino eejit, as verified by a mod who knows him in real life, it is all likely an act as (to paraphrase game of thrones' fantastic quote on these types) these people would happily watch the world burn if they could profit off the ashes. She and her likes are an absolute cancer on society, and while to be clear I am not calling for her death of violence (her type absolutely feed off of and list after that carry on so they can rush to their reliable old victim card), there really is no denying that the world would be a better place without her, or her counterparts, in it.

    The reason these lads exist is because the media is too one sided and only spout out whatever agenda they feel like. I'm not a fan of either her or the Torino guy but the greater question is why they exist, its because the moderate centrist is being hammered by the Left which is feeding directly into the Further Right wing. The Far Left and Far Right love each other because they are each others best recruiter. And then we have Fancy Socks Leo Varadkar and it is no wonder people gravitate towards some other more extremist position.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,283 ✭✭✭KikiLaRue


    Grayson wrote: »
    It's not like any of the nutjobs are asking reasonable questions. You go online and their entire understanding of Islam comes from memes that were created on 8chan.
    Not of on those fcukers has read any actual books about Islam. None of them have ever talked to a Muslim. They've never visited a muslim country. Their entire knowledge of a group of a billion people is made up of racist caricatures.

    This is so true.

    I lived in a Muslim country for years. When people ask me what Muslims are like I always say they were more concerned with what grades their kids were getting in school and how to get them to eat their vegetables than anything else as far as I could see.


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    KikiLaRue wrote: »
    This is so true.

    I lived in a Muslim country for years. When people ask me what Muslims are like I always say they were more concerned with what grades their kids were getting in school and how to get them to eat their vegetables than anything else as far as I could see.

    That's how I felt in Indonesia, till I went to Banda Aceh which has Sharia Law.. The stares, the police blocking me and my Asian girlfriend till they realised she wasn't local, and overthinking every move like lighting up a cigarette (Ramadan. I don't even know the rules.), I'll never forget. Lovely people, though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    theguzman wrote: »
    The reason these lads exist is because the media is too one sided and only spout out whatever agenda they feel like. I'm not a fan of either her or the Torino guy but the greater question is why they exist, its because the moderate centrist is being hammered by the Left which is feeding directly into the Further Right wing. The Far Left and Far Right love each other because they are each others best recruiter. And then we have Fancy Socks Leo Varadkar and it is no wonder people gravitate towards some other more extremist position.
    I don't necessarily buy into that either, otherwise the media would be a constant fawning over AAA-PBP or whatever they're going by this week, but that is far from the case. Thankfully at that, I identify as on the left side of things economically but not to 'magic money tree' economics.

    In fact Ireland has done a pretty solid job avoiding this phenomenon, probably in no small part fro being so small (hard to convince a Dub that farmers are fascists, or someone in Leitrim that Dubs are librul elites trying to take their freedumz and replace it with Sharia when they're a 2-3 hour drive from each other and likely have friends/family all over the country).

    The problem is often quite the opposite, as the media in places like America is obsessed with giving equal voice to unequal arguments, like having one climate change denying or anti vaccine scientist on to debate one who supports these theories, when in truth it should be one or two anti against 48 or 49 pro ones there, in the interest of fair representation. But that's not going to raise nearly as much controversy or gain as many clicks/views as two people shouting at each other, so they go with the latter even if it gives an inaccurate perception as to expert or public opinion.

    The problem there is that media being for profit and private for the most part is not going to be changing its stripes if people keep clicking and viewing, which is why it is so crucial to ensure proper critical thinking faculties across the board so that people can identify spoofers off the bat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,325 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    theguzman wrote: »
    The reason these lads exist is because the media is too one sided and only spout out whatever agenda they feel like. I'm not a fan of either her or the Torino guy but the greater question is why they exist, its because the moderate centrist is being hammered by the Left which is feeding directly into the Further Right wing. The Far Left and Far Right love each other because they are each others best recruiter. And then we have Fancy Socks Leo Varadkar and it is no wonder people gravitate towards some other more extremist position.

    The main stream media is one sided?

    https://twitter.com/colettebrowne/status/1106705350747738118


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,325 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    That's how I felt in Indonesia, till I went to Banda Aceh which has Sharia Law.. The stares, the police blocking me and my Asian girlfriend till they realised she wasn't local, and overthinking every move like lighting up a cigarette (Ramadan. I don't even know the rules.), I'll never forget. Lovely people, though.
    KikiLaRue wrote: »
    This is so true.

    I lived in a Muslim country for years. When people ask me what Muslims are like I always say they were more concerned with what grades their kids were getting in school and how to get them to eat their vegetables than anything else as far as I could see.

    That's the thing. Muslims are people too ;)

    All they care about is that their family grow up safe, their kids have a good life and all the same crap that everyone else worries about.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    She reminds me of Swedish Ingrid Carlqvist, also a respected mainstream journo that went her own way and now is "unpopular" with the mainstream media



  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,104 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    theguzman wrote: »
    She's a troll, yes she speaks alot of common sense but then she goes and ruins it all by being a conspiracy theorist and making some disgustingly outlandish claims.

    She is positioning herself as Ireland's version of Katie Hopkins and Alex Jones. She's chasing the money and tapping into the hunger for Alt-Right media driven by the MSM going full Marxist.

    I havent seen Gemma speak any common sense in a long time. Its notable there are some subtle attempts here to try and defend her but nah she is no longer defensible at all.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭1641


    biko wrote: »
    She reminds me of Swedish Ingrid Carlqvist, also a respected mainstream journo that went her own way and now is "unpopular" with the mainstream media

    The Holocaust denier ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    1641 wrote: »
    The Holocaust denier ?
    Seems baseless that she denies the holocaust ever took place.
    Sure, you yourself didn't add a source.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭1641




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,564 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    theguzman wrote: »
    yes she speaks alot of common sense

    Naaaah.

    Scrap the cap!



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    Didn't the two Gardai in the Mary Boyle doc say she misquoted them?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 554 ✭✭✭Creol1


    Didn't the two Gardai in the Mary Boyle doc say she misquoted them?

    The footage is there for anyone to see in the documentary so misquoting doesn't really arise.

    It is a compelling documentary and I would still recommend it, albeit in spite of, rather than because of, the fact that it was made by O'Doherty.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Didn't the two Gardai in the Mary Boyle doc say she misquoted them?

    There’s a thread on the Boyle case in the conspiracy forums, a member of the Boyle family posted regularly and by the sound of things Gemma’s behaviour was pissing them off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    1641 wrote: »
    Both articles references a facebook conversation between Ingrid and some fellow named Bo where Ingrid asked Bo to supply his evidence for the holocaust as Ingrid means there is too much blurred info and she wants all the evidence to be laid out.
    Bo references a mail conversation that we don't get to read.

    I feel there is something weird about their conversation since in my opinion there is lots of evidence for the Holocaust.
    Imo she isn't denying it happened, she has her doubts how it happened, or did actually 6 million die?
    Kinda like we don't actually know how many died in Soviet "labour" camps, but that's not a problem discussing.
    6 million have been mentioned there too but other reports state 2.3 to 17.6 million.

    Either way, I don't think Gemma has even discussed the Holocaust so no, that's not a similarity.


  • Advertisement
  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,283 ✭✭✭KikiLaRue


    Creol1 wrote: »
    The footage is there for anyone to see in the documentary so misquoting doesn't really arise.

    It is a compelling documentary and I would still recommend it, albeit in spite of, rather than because of, the fact that it was made by O'Doherty.

    It’s not misquoting so much as putting words in their mouths and then saying “Is that what happened?” But firing questions quite quickly at a fairly confused seeming older country guard so it doesn’t seem like he fully knows what he’s agreeing with.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭1641


    biko wrote: »
    Both articles references a facebook conversation between Ingrid and some fellow named Bo where Ingrid asked Bo to supply his evidence for the holocaust as Ingrid means there is too much blurred info and she wants all the evidence to be laid out.
    Bo references a mail conversation that we don't get to read.

    I feel there is something weird about their conversation since in my opinion there is lots of evidence for the Holocaust.
    Imo she isn't denying it happened, she has her doubts how it happened, or did actually 6 million die?
    Kinda like we don't actually know how many died in Soviet "labour" camps, but that's not a problem discussing.
    6 million have been mentioned there too but other reports state 2.3 to 17.6 million.

    Either way, I don't think Gemma has even discussed the Holocaust so no, that's not a similarity. Did you think it was?


    Because of the overall evidence the outright denial of anything like the Holocaust is rare. Instead the deniers couch it other terms, such as
    minimising the numbers,

    minimizing the intent,

    drawing moral equivalancies with other terrible events in the war (like the bombing of Dresden/Hamburg, the forced evacuation of Germans from East Prussia, etc),

    refer to it mockingly in what they term "humour",

    querying relatively minor details as a way to discredit the whole, etc.

    Of course the exact numbers will never be known - the SS destroyed as much documentation as they could. Historians continue to go over the details - this is perfectly legit. But the deniers are generally not historians or, where they are, have another agenda, eg David Irving. Some did go so far as establish a pseudo-academic journal "the Journal of Historical Review" to publish their pseudo "research".



    The knowledge of how many died in the Soviet camps is even more difficult. Before the fall of the Soviet Union there was no access to records (at least with the defeat of Germany there was greater access there). There was a window of partial opportunity after that but that was increasingly been closed off under Putin - who, of course, has an agenda to minimise it. Establishing the numbers who died in the various Chinese famines, purges and repressions under Mao is even more difficult for obvious reasons.


    So, yes, legitimate research in any of these matters is fine. The Holocaust deniers are not interested in legitimate research - just minimisation and relativation.


    As regards any similarity with Gemma, it was you who introduced the comparison, not me.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Just out of curiosity has anybody here, who defend Gemma, deleted their Netflix account on her recommendation to do so?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭Bunny Colvin


    humberklog wrote: »
    Just out of curiosity has anybody here, who defend Gemma, deleted their Netflix account on her recommendation to do so?

    Why is she against Netflix?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,564 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    They promote gayness.

    Scrap the cap!



  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Why is she against Netflix?

    Yep. Strangely suggesting with a hint of insistence that her followers should unsubscribe from their service.


    I had never considered Pompousness to be a mental illness but I'm starting to question that.


  • Advertisement
  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Why is she against Netflix?

    It’s part of the Unicorn Industrial Complex.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,744 ✭✭✭marieholmfan


    Gemma has never denied the holocaust.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,417 ✭✭✭WinnyThePoo


    Gemma has never denied the holocaust.

    That was biko who compared her to a Swedish holocaust denier.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,322 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Gemma has never denied the holocaust.
    https://honestreporting.com/award-winning-irish-journalist-tweets-antisemitic-conspiracy/
    She has tweeted anti semitic things in the past


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭batgoat


    Gemma has never denied the holocaust.

    You've set a really low bar...


  • Advertisement
This discussion has been closed.
Advertisement