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The Dictionary of Neo-Paleo Deholocaustolithification, Revised

Inspired by the incredible verbal dances of the past half century in support of the insupportable. Includes the never before compiled self-evident- Evil-Nazi-Ordinary-Blonde-Beasts'-Secret-Code-Words of WWII legend. de-ho-lo-caust-o-lith-i-fi-ca-tion – n. The art of comparing and making a point about whopping big infallible Holocaust facts that were once written in stone to different infallible Holocaust facts that…

When Is a Tree Not a Tree?

This piece illustrates something with startling clarity, a something that is often lost in the vulgar and vicious rhetoric which any hint of holocaust revisionism seems to attract. Which is that the attackers aren't just being nasty, they are responding as any human might if their cultural legacy were one of more than 2,000 years…

Libertarianism and Revisionism

Entries May 17, 1998 May 18, 1998 May 23, 1998 May 27, 1998 June 03, 1998 June 14, 1998 June 20, 1998 July 08, 1998 July 16, 1998 July 23, 1998 Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 14:37:00 -0700 MARCO DEN OUDEN: Brad, I understand that you are a political Libertarian as am I. I am…

The World as a Magical Gas Chamber

The aspects which link modern-day gas to the magic weapons of tales and legends are its invisibility and its supposed omnipotence. Frightening powers are attributed to it, and the terror that its use evokes arises from the impossibility of predicting it. Other substances, equally magical and mysterious, have sprung forth in full force from the…

Hit the Road Before It Hits You

“Think of the internet as a highway.” — There it is again. Some clueless fool talking about the “Information Superhighway.” They don't know didley about the Net. It's nothing like a superhighway. That's a rotten metaphor. Suppose the metaphor ran in the other direction. Suppose the highways were like the Net… A highway hundreds of…

An Alternative: Criminalize Bigotry

We have found a sensible solution to the highly divisive issue of affirmative action: We can live with dismantling affirmative action if, in exchange, we as a society make the eradication of discrimination our No. 1 priority. We can do this by criminalizating the offense: Deny someone a job, a loan or an education because…

Striped Fever

I remember well the plague, the old man muttered low,Its origins were vague, would were the outcome so!I think it started back, he said, when poor benighted dupesListened to the demagogues and split us into groups. Have pride! they cried, not in your deeds, nor even in your thoughts.Have pride! they cried, in social weeds,…

How to Sabotage a Newsgroup

Observations on verbal violence and the Usenet newsgroup alt.revisionism, with hints for potential participants Violence in speech does lead to violent action, as witnessed by the recent death of Yitzhak Rabin and its lengthy, ugly prelude of verbal excoriation of the basest sort. Yet many are those who rabidly maintain that the moral content of…

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