NP Neo-Nazis on the Net

[Paul Murphy]

Davemarc writes, in response to my claim:

>> Nothing about the Zuendelsite is thoughtful. The links are there to lend
>an
>> aura of legitimacy and reasonableness to hatred and extremist agitation.
>>
>Not exactly.  First, the Zundelsite is thoughtful in the sense that it's
>very carefully calculated and well thought out as...propaganda.

This may just be semantic hair-splitting to some, but I do want to draw a
distinction between mere cunning (which the Z-site exhibits in abundance)
and genuine ratiocination, an activity utterly foreign to propagandists.

>Also, the Nizkor people make it their practice to ask folks like Zundel to
>post links; Nizkor itself posts links to sites like Zundel's.  It's less an
>attempt at legitimizing than at acknowledging that there's something
>representing a dialectic at work here, that there's a willingness to let
>one's ideas stand up next to another's.

Though there's a difference between 'representing a dialectic' and genuine
dialectic. Nizkor underlines this difference in their "Open Letter to
Zuendel-Site Visitors", available at:
http://www.nizkor.netizen.org/features/z-open-letter/
from which this excerpt comes:

>They want to call our cross-linking and their propaganda the first round of
>"debate." We reject that term: cross-linking is cross-linking, no more.

In short, the Z-site's gesture of magnanimity is sham, "nur zum Schein" as
the phrase goes in Zuendel's mother-tongue. It is in EZ's interest to
present himself as concerned with open debate -- it makes him seem
reasonable, and a martyr to political correctness whenever his rights are
questioned -- but dialogue is outside of his ken.

Cheers,
Paul