Justin has it nailed. I always tell folks the same thing, on a pure level of logic:
> "There was no Holocaust" does not imply, "The Jews are
> wicked,"
then add that in 30 years of research I have yet to find an actual instance where they are not linked.
:-)
-cb
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Justin
Schwartz
> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 5:44 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: Alterman on Chomsky
>
>
>
> >
> > From the UK fascist friends of Oswald Mosley.
> >http://www.oswaldmosley.com/people/chomsky.html
> > >... a response to a claim that Faurisson is anti-Semitic
> by dint of his
> >questioning of the Holocaust, Chomsky said, "I see no
anti-Semitic
> >implications
> >in denial of the existence of gas chambers or even denial of
> the Holocaust.
> >Nor
> >would there be anti-Semitic implications, per se, in the
> claim that the
> >Holocaust (whether one believes it took place or not) is
> being exploited,
> >viciously so, by apologists for Israeli repression and
> violence. I see no
> >hint
> >of anti- Semitic implications in Faurisson's work").
>
> From a strictly logical point of view, this is correct. It is
> something a
> failing of Chomsky's syle of analysis and pesronal temperment that
he
> insists on strict logic at the expense of context and nuance.
> Of course
> "There was no Holocaust" doe not imply, "The Jews are
> wicked," but only
> people who believe the latter say the former.
>
> jks
>
> jks
>
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