Posted by Eugene Volokh:
Eric Alterman Responds:
[1]Reason's Hit & Run posts Eric Alterman's response to Cathy Young,
regarding her criticisms of his "the suffering of . . . bigots"
column, and Cathy Young's rejoinder. I find Cathy Young's statements
much more persuasive. As she points out:
After all, the ceremony that the British Muslim Council boycotted
was not meant to honor (say) the memory of fallen Israeli soldiers,
or even of the Israeli victims of Palestinian terrorism; it was
commemorating the victims of the Holocaust. It is those victims
whom Alterman says Muslims have the moral right to view the way
gays would view dead "gay-bashing bigots" (how else does one
interpret his analogy?) -- simply because those victims were Jews,
just like the Israelis and their supporters.
References
1. http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/2005/02/eric_alterman_r.shtml#008392
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