tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11224468.post7781962566721494183..comments2024-02-15T07:19:24.972-05:00Comments on The Daily Doubter: Crimes against historyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11224468.post-55846530618087437442007-08-27T13:19:00.000-04:002007-08-27T13:19:00.000-04:00I unequivocally think Irving's Holocaust denial fa...I unequivocally think Irving's Holocaust denial falls under free speech, but I also unequivocally think he's a racist bastard that needs to be rebutted and refuted whenever he opens his mouth.<BR/><BR/>When I was in college we had a debate in an ethics course I took about whether or not hate speech should be legal. <BR/><BR/>I was on the side of that it should be. One of my debate opponents brought up Martin Luther's hate-speech against Jews being used as Third Reich propaganda as evidence that hate-speech being illegal. My retort was that free speech wasn't allowed in Nazi Germany, nor were Catholic Church and nascent Protestant movement in Luther's time free speech advocates.<BR/><BR/>Criminalizing hate speech to me is a bit like cutting down the laws to go after the devil <BR/><BR/><I>More: And go he should, if he were the Devil himself, until he broke the law! <BR/><BR/>Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law! <BR/><BR/>More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? <BR/><BR/>Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that! <BR/><BR/>More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down - and you're just the man to do it - do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!</I><BR/><BR/>- Robert Bolt, A Man for All SeasonsHume's Ghosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13551684109760430351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11224468.post-41159042419592099292007-08-27T11:51:00.000-04:002007-08-27T11:51:00.000-04:00Yes, the denial of genocide is actually a part of ...Yes, the denial of genocide is actually a part of the whole program of genocide. It is an extension of genocide itself (which is why I seriously question if David Irving's "studies" really fall under the category of "free speech").Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com