And the Holocaust ain’t the half of it. Let Canadian bishops preach against homosexual unions and see who gets taken away in irons. Sorry, off topic, but it shows that even the vaunted “free speech rights” of Western nations don’t always exist.
Is the sensitivity uncalled for or does it need to be broadened to cover all the genocides men commit against their brothers?
Well there are real questions that are not addressed. There is the real probability that gas chambers did not exist. The gas chambers at Auschwitz have been in dispute. A Jew named David Cole made a trip there and made some compelling points that the building was not a gas chamber but a simple building that was altered after the war by the Communists in 1948. There were many questions he posed to the curator of the Auschwitz museum that he could not answer.
You can add the Ukrainian Holocaust to those items that were suppressed. Seven million Ukrainians were starved to death in the midst of plenty at Stalin’s order - in the late 1930s before the Germans even thought of gas chambers!
If we use “free speach cannot trump truth” then what do we do about free religious debate? Or various faith traditions? There can be only One Truth. And what about The Flat Earth Society? Do we silence them?
Child pornography and the old "crying out ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater should be among the very, very few exceptions to unlimited free speech.
I don’t doubt for one minute that the gas chambers at Auschwitz existed. No one who is not anti-Semitic doubts it. Find a Jew who questions Auschwitz is like finding a black man who refutes the evils of slavery in America. Hard to do but even when you find him it does not change the facts. What were the questions? I doubt the curator was at Auschwitz when it was in operation so how would he have any knowledge about what went on there unless he had read about it. The curator of any museum will not have all the answers about the contents of the museum.
DShreffler, you are 100% correct. Why are we not seeing the conference as an opportunity to provide historical evidence. The truth will set you free it does not need to be protected.But I dobelieve that there were gas chambers at the death camps given the efficiency and organization of the Nazis.
The fact that Stalin was more of a monster than Hitler does not lessen the fact that Hitler was a monster. Rather than down play what happened to the Jews under the Nazis lets play up what they did to Gypsies, Poles, Catholics and other ‘undesirables’. Lets let the world know what Stalin and the Communist did to the Balkans, Ukrainians, Poles and other Eastern Europeans.
Yes, and he ought not to be. David Irving had been demolished when his lawsuit against Deborah Lipstadt failed miserably. Sticking him in prison just makes him a martyr and undoes all that good work.
You and I are on the same page. I totally disagree with what he says but I believe in a free society where he has the right to say it. We have the right to refute what he says, believe it or ignore it. Prison should be for people who are a danger to society not ‘Loony Tunes’ like him.
And there’s Rwanda, and Cambodia, and the Armenian Holocaust, which France just the other week has added to the list of factual occurences that cannot be denied, under pain of the law.
Why do you use quotes when you are misquoting me?
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No thank you. I personally know 2 survivors of Auschwitz, one a Jew the other a Czechoslovakian Catholic. I will take their word for what happened there.
Slander and Libel are certainly applicable, and an injured party may seek redress (with certain exceptions).
I’d say no. There can be more than one interpretation of some point of history.
The United States has chosen to be the most free-speech tolerant nation on earth, and so hate group propaganda and porn comes with the territory.
Good and valid points, but the United States is most unlikely to repeal the First Amendment.
Agree whole-heartedly.