Ernst Nolte

[Robert]

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From: Spencer Thiel <spen at fictiondepartment.com>
To: Pynchlist <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Date: 23 czerwca 2000 05:14
Subject: Re: Ernst Nolte


>Regardless of the opinions held by Ernst Nolte, he was dismissed for views
>that he held (at least according to the email, a source I have yet to
>verify).  A similar event happened to the French Holocaust revisionist
>Robert Faurisson who was dismissed from the University of Lyon in
>France.  Regardless of their views, their dismissals are clear violations
>of their rights to free speech, and thus easily applicable to the term
>'thoughtcrime'.  There can be no two ways about it: you are either for or
>against free speech.  And if you are for free speech, you are in favor of
>exactly the kind of speech that said 'scholars' are making; that is, speech
>that isn't in accordance with your own thoughts (and even in this case,
>history truths).
>
>Please don't interpret my remarks as being in some way in support of the
>work that said 'scholars' have done.  To deny the Holocaust is to deny
>one's humanity.
>
I don't see their dismissals as violations of their right to free speech.
This year an academic historian at Opole University in Poland published a
book denying in a way the Holocaust (claiming, in fact, that Auschwitz
wasn't an extermination camp, but a labour one.) Upon several occasions he
even voiced his views on the radio. He was expelled from his university -
and rightly so, in my opinion. But he wasn't criminally prosecuted by the
law - again, rightly so, in my opinion. I think it's quite understandable
that some astronomers don't want to have as their colleague an individual
who maintains the earth is flat. And that the sun revolves around it.



Regards,

Robert S.





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