--- Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at dodo.com.au> wrote: Yes. And because even if it doesn't succeed in inspiring someone to kill, or oppress, that is unambiguously the intent. And given that, why should the intended victims have to live in fear.
Shut the miserable scum up. Jail them if they won't shut up. Their views are intolerable.
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So, Al-Jazeerah is wrong to broadcast bin Laden's statements, and the president of Iran (and a big chunk of the population of the Muslim world) should be locked up?
Anyway this argument has been shifting around between different concepts without distinguishing them. Not all Holocaust deniers are racists and/or Nazis (though there is a very strong correlation). Not all racist speech is incitement to violence. In fact very little of it is.
David Irving publishing a book of pseudo-history (he denies he is an anti-Semite, IIRC) is not the same thing as somebody saying that Jews are greedy, which again is not the same as saying that all Jews must die.
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