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...applaud The Crimson's recent decision not to accept a full-page advertisement from the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust, a Holocaust revisionist group run by Bradley R. Smith. However, I seriously question the Wisdom of placing a story on that decision on the front page of the April 16 Crimson. In doing so, The Crimson has given Smith what he most desires: publicity for himself, his organization and his views...
...present time, Holocaust revisionism is a growing movement. One of its basic goals is to convince people that the Holocaust was a myth advanced by a worldwide Jewish conspiracy hoping to channel international sympathy into support for the establishment of the state of Israel. (It is beyond me how this Jewish conspiracy found the time to do this while at the same time conspiring to take over Hollywood, the world's newspapers and international banking...
...recency of the Holocaust and the existence of so many first-hand eyewitnesses to it may make the goal of the revisionists seem almost laughable. However, if the purpose of studying history is to gain lessons for the future, one such lesson is that no idea is too ridiculous to be taken seriously. After all, the Nazi ideology which resulted in world war and the extermination of millions was once considered by German intellectuals to be too ridiculous to be taken seriously. With that in mind, Holocaust revisionism should not be discounted as too far-fetched an idea to ever...
...course the vast majority of people who would come in contact with a revisionist advertisement in The Crimson would probably be disgusted by it. But this would not matter to Smith. Holocaust revisionists are not aspiring to sway majorities right now. Instead, Holocaust revisionists are thinking in the long term, primarily concerned with reaching individuals intrigued by Holocaust revisionism, people who will from the intellectual and financial support for the movement in the future...
...fact that Holocaust survivors are generally in their later years and in the process of dying out will make it easier for Smith's organization and similar ones to transform the main "issue" of the Holocaust from its shocking details and the circumstances which made it possible to the question of fact versus myth. In revisionist goals, a future history textbook, in the effort to be unbiased, would have to contain "both sides of the story" on this matter...