From: <frankscott@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: Academic Freedom and Holocaust Denial
To: ReportersNotebook-owner@yahoogroups.com
don't know if it's too late or whether they'll print it, so, here's what i said to them...or tried to:
fs
there seems to be real confusion about our language...unless the "higher" educated folk here are recent immigrants still unfamiliar with the meaning of words, let alone constitutionally guaranteed - supposedly - freedom of speech and thought?
if denial means not accepting as truth and someone does not accept as truth the entire story of the iraq war and why we went into it, does that mean the person doesn't believe the war happened?
if someone denies the allegations of weapons of mass destruction being prepared in iran- while they exist in israel - does this mean the person denies the existence of nuclear weapons themselves? or iran, or israel?
apparently so when it comes to the new religion of the holocaust and someone expresses doubts about some of its dogma...this immediately becomes, to the language disabled and emotionally quick if intellectually slow, denial of the reality of persecution, ethnic cleansing and murder of so many jews by the nazis...as we say among the truly literate and educated: duh?
having serious doubts about the six million jews killed - a figure in use nearly thirty years before the second world war, which should be known to "scholarly" folk since it was used in the new york times in 1919 - no more implies "denial" of the fact that great numbers of jews suffered terribly than having serious doubts about the resurrection of christ implies a blood libel and threatened extermination of the hundreds of millions of christians for whom that is a tenet of faith as strong as the six million belief held by others...and as equally unverifiable in the material world except by profound belief and faith that needs no material evidence...
i mean hey, the tomb was empty, so he must have resurrected, right? the liberated camps were dreadful, the dead and emaciated bodies all over the place, so they must have been gassed in the millions,right?
serious doubts about the existence of gas chamber weapons of mass destruction in eastern europe - not germany, as many supposedly educated still seem to believe - is no more a denial of the murder of so many jews than serious doubts of the existence of nuclear weapons of mass destruction in iraq, or iran, or wherever they will next be located by scholars(?) in the employ of empire means denial of the existence of nuclear weapons...
this professor ought to be given tenure if he doesn't have it already, and his detractors sent to the unemployment lines to meditate on their dereliction of duty to at least attempt to think before trouncing someone for alleged beliefs that may not even exist...are they education and free thought deniers?
fs
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Frank Scott writes political commentary and satire which appears in print in The Independent Monitor and online at the blog Legalienate
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