Hitler was, in 1923, considered to be a "whack job"

--ryan



On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Chris Gehlker <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Apr 25, 2009, at 6:52 AM, Ryan Waldon wrote:
>
> > The Holocaust didn't happen in the UK, did it? Note that the
> > countries where denial is a crime, were essentially "ground-zero"
> > for the Holocaust. I'd imagine that would give those governments
> > (and citizens) a very different perspective on the issue.
>
> But there is a question of the direction of causality. It does seem
> reasonable that a society that is more tolerant of the occasional
> whack job will also be more tolerant of those who depart from the norm
> in terms of religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or what have you.
>
> --
> The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and
> you are out there
>  -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)
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