Sometimes All You Can Say is "Wow"

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I was reading a friend's article on Persona Paper when I saw a comment that made me shake my head in utter disbelief. The person replying admitted that he is a Holocaust denier, claiming it was "communist propaganda" that "never happened." Sometimes all you can say is wow. We have photographs. We have video. We have written documentation. We have survivors (although they are dying off). We have (or had) people who participated in the Holocaust who ADMITTED that it happened. Why don't you just deny that 9/11 happened? (Oh, wait, people deny that too: not that it happened, mind you, but that it happened the way everyone says it happened. [Y'know, George W. Bush, the president that these same people claim was too dumb to tie his own shoelaces, was brilliant enough to orchestrate 9/11.]) Holocaust denial has, as its roots, the very thing that brought about the Holocaust: antisemitism. You don't find people saying, "I love the Jews, but the Holocaust never happened." There's an excellent video on the history and reasons for antisemitism at the Jewish website Simple to Remember that points out how people blame the Jews for the world's ills...then does the math. There are seven billion people on earth, of which approximately 15 million are Jews. That's 0.00214 of the population (not even 1/100th of of 1%!) causing all the problems in the world! Yep, sometimes all you can say is "wow."