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To: cothrige
As I said, with Mel Gibson many hoped that his acceptance of his fathers Holocaust denial was not accompanied by virulent antisemitism; but the two just seem to go together like ducks and water.

Did you give Anita Dunn the same courtesy that when she praised Mao, you didn't assume she had a rather favorable view of Communism?

Those that deny the Holocaust have no real historic reasons for doing so, so I must assume they have personal reasons for so doing; and anecdotal evidence suggests they are brain dead racist losers.

49 posted on 02/03/2010 6:17:23 AM PST by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: allmendream
Did you give Anita Dunn the same courtesy that when she praised Mao, you didn't assume she had a rather favorable view of Communism?

Well, I don't think this is analogical. Her praise of Mao was as a political "philosopher" and his political philosophy was communism. Effectively she said what her view was in that regard as it was what she was talking about. The racial views of holocaust deniers, on the other hand, are being inferred based on assumptions of motive which are not themselves implicit or explicit in the their stated positions.

Those that deny the Holocaust have no real historic reasons for doing so, so I must assume they have personal reasons for so doing; and anecdotal evidence suggests they are brain dead racist losers.

Maybe they are, but maybe they aren't. Anecdotal evidence, in my experience, is an oxymoron and I can see no objective reason to assume that holocaust deniers are all acting out of racist motives. Particular goofy ideas don't necessarily equate to some equally particular agenda or motive. Many morons think that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job perpetrated by those in our own government. Does it prove they hate America? No, not really. It just proves that they are stupid and gullible. Conspiracy nuts are just that, nuts. I think many are paranoid and simply believe that there are secret machinations going on behind the scenes all the time. Others, I think, like to think they are privy to some secret occult knowledge that others are not aware of. It feeds their ego. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that Bp. Williamson is one of these.

51 posted on 02/03/2010 10:14:32 PM PST by cothrige (Ego vero Evangelio non crederem, ni si me catholicae Ecclesiae commoveret auctoritas.)
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