Klarinet Archive - Posting 000123.txt from 2007/05

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] SV: Wagner
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:15:05 -0400

On Sun, 13 May 2007 18:21:31 +0000, Sarah Elbaz wrote:
> If we want to to have a serious discussion about antisemitism, I think that we should face some more
> difficult questions.
> For example: Amazon .com . Is there any one on this list who didn't buy or sell books and CD's
> through Amazon? And if I tell you that Amazon sells more copies of the" Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
> then the Bible...

If you told me that, I would dispute it. The hardcover Protocols is
#160,286 in their sales ranking, and the Zondervan NIV Bible (only one
of the hundreds of versions they sell) is #14,644.

> and they refuse to stop spreading this poison because of the profit they make from this book, would you still buy ans sell through Amazon?
> I would love to get an answer to this question.
>

It has been demonstrated time and time again that you cannot eliminate
hateful speech by censoring it. Amazon has a lengthy special note on
the Protocols page that identifies the text as repugnant racial
propaganda, and even links to a book that exposes its fraudulent
history. In a very real sense, it is only by exposing filth like this
to the naked light of day that we can recognize it for what it is, and
work towards preventing it from occurring again.

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Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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