Holocaust Denial Wrongly Punished

I agree with David Velleman at Left2Right. Having had my own recent brush with kooky holocaust deniers, I know that they see things through the crackpot worldview and looooove conspiracy theories, especially about Jews (of course).

David Irving has been shown to be a fraud in a court of law, and he has no one to blame but himself because he brought the lawsuit.

That said, I think it’s wrong to proscribe even crackpot speech, and provided there is no incitement to violence, certainly no one should ever go to jail. The Austrian courts have escalated Irving to martyrhood and he’ll be a rallying cry for the next generation of neo-Nazis.

Historians, humanities professors and scientists should all speak out against this. Irving must not be allowed to become the Galileo of the Holocaust denial industry.

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