FinnMacCool
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Well? Your answer?
We wouldn't..........FinnMacCool said:Okay supposing we had a law then. I was just speculating.
:roll: arrest people for no crime commited?FinnMacCool said:Well? Your answer?
That's been floating around the internet for years. It's absolute bullshit. I actually listened to the audio of that interview and it's not at all like right wingers make it out to be. He is one of the greatest leftist thinkers of our time so, of course, people will jump on the opportunity to sieze something to criticize him for. Of course, they've only gotten one on him. If you had more, you would probably have a more compelling argument.Guys like Noam Chomsky claim other mass genocides never happened. However stupid they are, they're protected by the 1st amendment
If stupidity was contagious, I would be a conservative.In Germany, it is forbidden by law to publicly deny the holocaust happened (Volksverhetzung, roughly "incitement of the masses"). Is that immoral? In light of our history, we know that these people more often serve an agenda of disinformation of the public, than merely protecting personal beliefs. Every disinformant will find followers, who will refuse to be educated. If the world was good, we could educate these people by presenting facts and rational arguments. But human nature is not such. Stupidity is contagious. Sometimes we must have laws protecting humans from their own fallible nature. In this case, outspoken denial of historical facts is not an opinion, it is a danger. If such laws are deemed unconstitutional in the US, so be it. All I can say is that Germany today has one of the lowest rates of racially motivated hate crime in Europe, including the former socialist states.
There are a few European countries, namely Germany, that make it a law that you cannot deny the holocaust happened. Perhaps things like that aren't relevant to you but they are to me. People have been given unfair treatement for expressing unpopular ideas, and this is just an example.This has to be the most ridiculous questions ever posed here, what exactly is the point?
No he didn't but if you look him up on right wing websites, then you will find that he did=, which you surely will be doing.BTW, did Chomsky actually claim it didn't happen? I knew he was lower than a snake's belly but I didn't know he went that low.
No, it's been floating around everywhere since June 25, 1977 when Chomsky and Edward S. Herman published their article "Distortions at Fourth Hand" in The Nation.FinnMacCool said:That's been floating around the internet for years.
What interview?FinnMacCool said:It's absolute bullshit. I actually listened to the audio of that interview and it's not at all like right wingers make it out to be.
The guy's a hack. Basically everything he says starts out with the conclusion that America is evil and then he works his way backwards.FinnMacCool said:He is one of the greatest leftist thinkers of our time so, of course, people will jump on the opportunity to sieze something to criticize him for. Of course, they've only gotten one on him.
I've got much, much more.FinnMacCool said:If you had more, you would probably have a more compelling argument.
Hey, that's a great idea! I think I will. Stay tuned.FinnMacCool said:BTw, if you want you should start an anti Chomsky thread. I realize that this was a shot at me but it would be nice if you could do it elsewhere.
:roll:FinnMacCool said:He is one of the greatest leftist thinkers of our time
Chomsky has said about every other outrageous thing so it wouldn't have surprised me. He is a "respectable" version of Michael Moore. A lot of gullible people fall for his phony bulloney.FinnMacCool said:No he didn't but if you look him up on right wing websites, then you will find that he did=, which you surely will be doing.
Pray tell, why? Too many long words for you?Navy Pride said:This thread makes absolutely no sense and will go down in this forum as one of the most stupid of all time.......
would you agree than, that Karl Rove is on of the greatest Rightist thinkers of out time.....FinnMacCool said:He is one of the greatest leftist thinkers of our time so, of course, people will jump on the opportunity to sieze something to criticize him for.