What Exactly Do You Stand To Lose?
By Jayne Gardener
What are people so afraid of? Why are they so reluctant to look at information that challenges their fervently held beliefs?
Ever since I began this blog a couple of months ago I have noticed that some people are not open at all to having people challenge their beliefs. They hold onto their opinions so doggedly that they refuse to be swayed by any evidence. Why do they feel that they have to cling to those beliefs in the face of contradictory evidence so tenaciously?
When I first started doing research on Jewish supremacist ethnocentrism and race I did so with an open mind simply because I had a lot of questions and I was desperately searching for answers. I felt as though there was nothing to fear since the worst that could happen was that I might discover that I had been wrong on some issues.
As it turns out I WAS wrong on some issues and I have accepted that. So why is it so hard for other people to challenge themselves and their beliefs?
If someone were to read some of the information revealed by respected historians like Germar Rudolf and David Irving and come to believe that some information we hold as truth with regards to the Holocaust was in actuality not true, why is that so threatening to them?
If someone were to read information about racial differences from people like Jared Taylor, Michael Levin, David Duke or Edgar Steele and were forced to re-examine their views on race, what would be the harm?
In my experience, it seems that a lot of people tend to denigrate David Duke because they believe what the mainstream media says about him. I read his books with some hesitation for exactly that reason but when I learned what he had to say in his own words I realized that he has been maligned by many people who simply condemn him for his past and refuse to listen to the message he is trying to get across now. David Duke is not a hater, he simply speaks the truth as he knows it and backs it up with evidence. If people would just read his books without any preconceived notions about his motives I think they would find his arguments persuasive.
