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"I don't understand why you don't understand. Leftists should not be associated with neo-Nazi websites in any capacity." I'm not disagreeing with that. Unz is politically poisonous. I'm disagreeing that the blame lies on leftists for his publishing decisions, as though they have control over what he says or does, and separately disagreeing that it is an important matter because Unz himself (like LaRouche) is unimportant. I still recall the attempt by David Duke to "endorse" Charles Barron's Senate run. It caught Barron blind-sided and suddenly Barron had to explain, bizarrely, that he is not, in fact, a friend of Nazis. One would think that would be clear given that Barron is black and a militant leftist, and one might also wonder why the news cameras were paying any attention to David Duke in the first place given his complete and utter insignificance, but lo and behold, the Barron campaign was torched using David Duke's kiss of death. That Finkelstein's works get published by Unz is gross, but hardly grosser than the fact that Finkelstein's work (and Chomsky's before him) also had regular play on less prominent Nazi websites including Holocaust Denial publications. What you are saying makes it seem like it's their burden to somehow go out of their way and trawl through the shadiest corners of the internet to get those writings removed because right-wing extremists choose to appropriate them for their own purposes, as though they ever sent in their endorsement in the first place. I don't agree with that. ARR's article, which isn't about any of these people, takes the association game to a new extreme. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
