Further on freedom
What do David Irving and Stephen Gough have in common?
Both should never have been jailed... The best way of dealing with Holocaust deniers is demolish their arguments. The best way of dealing with naked ramblers is probably to admire their courage (and their frostbite) since it's February.
Both should never have been jailed... The best way of dealing with Holocaust deniers is demolish their arguments. The best way of dealing with naked ramblers is probably to admire their courage (and their frostbite) since it's February.
posted by Femme de Resistance @ 10:23 am
4 Comments:
At 12:37 pm ,
Chris Palmer said...
I wonder. I have never studied the so called Jewish Holocaust in any great deal, and neither have many other people - and yet, most people take it as given fact that such religious genocide did indeed take place.
At 12:56 pm ,
Femme de Resistance said...
People take loads of stuff for granted, e.g. the earth is a sphere. I think with the Holocaust it was so terrible (they pretty much had a Fordist-type mass killing operation) that people feel wrong asking questions about it.
Without even trotting out the usual free speech arguments, I find this Austrian legislation odd. Making Holocaust denial a crime singles out one atrocity, whereas many millions also died at the hands of Stalin and Mao. It seems rather peculiar and also seems to disrespect the families of all those others who have lost people, etc. in various genocides.
At 11:17 pm ,
Simon said...
It is seen tasteless in some circles to observe that the Holocaust while predominately a Jewish tragedy was not exlclusively a Jewish tragedy.
C.F. people making out people attempting to commemerate gay holocaust victims are hijacking the holocaust from the jews.
At 2:43 pm ,
Iain Sharpe said...
Irving's conviction and imprisonment is justified and right.
Although in this country we have no law outlawing holocaust denial, we do have laws against inciting racial hatred which hardly anyone in the political mainstream believe should be repealed.
Irving is not simply outlining an opinion or legitimate argument but deliberately trying to incite hatred of Jews by trying to wipe the historical fact of the holocaust from the historical record. Why else would he want to do this?
He is not a historian but a proven liar and falsifier. There is plenty of real debate among genuine historians about the holocaust.
Whether or not David Cesarani is an ideologue, he is a professional historian who abides by scholarly standards and does not use his work to promote hatred of a particular racial group.
For more on this see my blog at http://eatenbymissionaries.blogspot.com/
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