On 3/2/06, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "These have how many living survivors? The Sudan is a > genocide now and there are still survivors (for the moment) and it's not > being done by white men but by Muslims." > > Quite true. And the race and ethnicity of those pepetrating the > genocide forms absolutely no part of my argument. Although I'm not > surprised that this is a portion of my examples which so many have > chosen to put under the spotlight. > > The Holocaust, however, is treated differently than any other event of > genocide and every other attrocity in history. The laws are different, > and the penalties are usually harsher in all areas. There is a far > greater backlash. > > The reasons for this that have been put forward so far are : > > 1) it happened in our century, and there are living survivors. But > we've already seen that there are living survivors of several other > atrocities, some in this very decade far less century. > > 2) Certain countries equate any questioning of the holocaust to a Hate > Crime by default, and this is not the case in other countries. > However, the backlash for such statements is usualy disproportionate > in most countries of the world when compared to the backlash for other > racist, ethnic, or religious 'hate' speech.
Ity also happens the other way as well. Currently in Turkey it is a crime to suggest that there was an Armenian holocaust, or that in the 1990's there was efforts to ethnically cleans the Kurds from their homeland areas along the Turkish/Iranian/Iraqi border. > > Neither of these reasons really explain why the curtailment of Freedom > of Speech, or the general acceptance that publishing such items is by > default Irresponsible is so widely accepted in the case of Jews and > the Holocaust, but no such high degree of recognition of > irresponsibility occurs in any of several other examples of > insensitivity,bigotry, genocide or racism. Again, do you agree that there are cases for the legitimate curtailment of the freedom of speech or not. For instance, what about yelling fire in a crowded theater? larry -- Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. Edmond Burke ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:198625 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
