On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 10:24:30AM -0600, Fred Bauder wrote:
If there is
some group claiming that Jews "started" WWII;
or "invented" the Holocaust or
"are a bunch of greedy hypocrites who should be driven into the Sea" or
(insert favorite anti-Semitic idea here) --
then we simply write that Group A _believes_ this.
I don't think so.
Why not? The fact that those beliefs are held is useful information; this
is a project to collect useful information. There need be no implication
that the belief is true or valid - otherwise there should be no article
on any Religion, for instance, since there is no evidence to support *those*
claims either.
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jason(a)jasonandali.org.uk
http://www.jasonandali.org.uk/jason/