NP Re: IBM, Disney, Bush: Nazis?

davemarc davemarc at panix.com
Wed Feb 21 19:02:28 CST 2001


From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>

> Labelling corporations and selected individuals as "admirers" of Hitler,
or
> "war criminals", in order to discredit their descendants and thereby
promote
> their descendants' opponents, is actually a distortion of the "historical
> record" imo.
>
Not if the corporations and selected individuals can be proven or shown to
have been admirers of Hitler.  Then it's a historical fact.  Obfuscating
such a fact would, however, be a distortion of the "historical
record."

The use to which a "historical record" can be put constitutes a separate
issue.

d.






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