Hitler Apologists and laws against them
Austria and Germany have laws that criminalize Holocaust denial.
Yes, two liberal democracies have laws criminalizing thought!
Morally the Holocaust is one of the four worst actions taken in the 20th Century, along with the Stalin purges of the Soviet Union, the Pol Pot Cambodia attacks against educated people, and Maoist killings of everyone in China. Yet, can we reasonalby accept laws to criminalize idiot thought?
Though, certainly we cannot compare the two it does not dimmish the absurd reality that Austria and Germany are acting irrationally.
Criminalizing behavior doesn't prevent it, and jailing people for what they think instead of actions they take risks sympothies from non-supporters. Allowing David Irving to be martyred by his jailing is far worse then allowing his idiotic views to be debated in the sunshine. "Sunshine is its own disinfectant"!
An Emory University professor successfully debated and won a case agaisnt mr. Irving and allowing such debates to occur further to discredit his irrational thoughts.
Though they are not equivelent, they are both wrong...denying the reality of Holocaust and Jailing those who argue against the Holocaust are both tragedies!
Do not martyr and idiot, let his ideas whither from sunshine. A dead idea like a dead body reaks and rots...and so should David Irving and his ideas! Just don't jail him...do we forget what allowed Hitler the time to write Mien Kampf? Jail!
Yes, two liberal democracies have laws criminalizing thought!
Morally the Holocaust is one of the four worst actions taken in the 20th Century, along with the Stalin purges of the Soviet Union, the Pol Pot Cambodia attacks against educated people, and Maoist killings of everyone in China. Yet, can we reasonalby accept laws to criminalize idiot thought?
Though, certainly we cannot compare the two it does not dimmish the absurd reality that Austria and Germany are acting irrationally.
Criminalizing behavior doesn't prevent it, and jailing people for what they think instead of actions they take risks sympothies from non-supporters. Allowing David Irving to be martyred by his jailing is far worse then allowing his idiotic views to be debated in the sunshine. "Sunshine is its own disinfectant"!
An Emory University professor successfully debated and won a case agaisnt mr. Irving and allowing such debates to occur further to discredit his irrational thoughts.
Though they are not equivelent, they are both wrong...denying the reality of Holocaust and Jailing those who argue against the Holocaust are both tragedies!
Do not martyr and idiot, let his ideas whither from sunshine. A dead idea like a dead body reaks and rots...and so should David Irving and his ideas! Just don't jail him...do we forget what allowed Hitler the time to write Mien Kampf? Jail!
posted by Tom Gaitens at 1:28 PM
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