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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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21.6.04

Abu Ghraib as anti-Semitic.
Doesn't fly does it? And yet, isn't that the whole point with all that raging vicious denunciation?
The Holocaust!
Whenever someone says something disparaging about Jews, the Holocaust!
Because we have to be vigilant. We have to stop it before it begins again.
We have to be alert, and if we err on the side of caution, if we wrongly accuse someone of anti-Semitism, so be it. We have to be vigilant, and they should understand how much suffering there was.
We have dogs attacking broken men, we have sex crimes against the children of prisoners, we have slow death by inhuman torture.
Why doesn't this invoke the Holocaust?
Because it isn't being done to Jews?
Is that what the Holocaust was?
Or was it the inhumanity, the bestial inhumanity. And isn't that what we see here, rising again?
The argument is that this is not as bad as the Holocaust. But then neither is racist slander.
Shouldn't we see this as just as dangerous?
Isn't this more appalling than hate speech?

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