-- On 2 May 2003 at 12:50, David Howe wrote:
I personally think the biggest problem with almost any label of universal disgust (and "Holocaust denier" is almost as good as "pedophile" for this purpose) is that it gets abused as a method to suppress unrelated or marginally related discussion. Holocaust denier is a bad label for someone who (for example) doubts the "skin lampshades" story - they aren't denying the holocaust, they are arguing for the untruth of a selected fact;
Its a perfectly accurate label. We have good evidence for the skin lampshades, and why would anyone raise the issue except to white wash nazism? The people who are posting in this list that recently existent communism is not so bad, also post that capitalism is really terrible. Obviously they want to do it all over again. Similarly the people who deny the skin lampshades, also argue the Jews had it coming. Hitler did not skin them, but he should have. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG PN8qKUghBxq8kC8Ofm+buqaqXvr4t2DwXYCzRvq4 4tphka/yDJT2EcmBjBs1e9RnMSfau/lCHjrRa904e