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How to evaluate Areskjold?

Posted by: Samuel Day Fassbinder ( Citizens for Mustard Greens, USA ) on July 02, 1998 at 09:25:19:

In Reply to: Disgusting! posted by Stuart Gort on June 26, 1998 at 15:55:56:


: It is disgusting to suggest that starvation is a deliberate act of
: capitalists in general terms like the above statement does.

It might also be considered "disgusting" for Jewish historians to blame the Holocaust on the Nazis, but "disgusting" isn't the criterion such historians use in deciding whether such claims stand or fall. Rather, notions such as whether Jews, political dissidents, homosexuals, Gypsies etc. were systematically tortured and then slaughtered are reviewed as to whether or not they are true or false.

We might consider possessing the intellectual dignity to evaluate Frode Areskjold's claims first and last as regards their facticity, rather than implying that truths that are "disgusting" or "beyond the pale" are to be ignored, denounced, or rejected in favor of comforting falsehoods.

And, as for Frode Areskjold's Web site, I sure wish he wouldn't use that fancy software... the software on my home computer won't recognize it...


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