tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28584048.post116106852452805443..comments2023-03-26T17:08:30.239-07:00Comments on Կենաց-לחיים: New York Times in DenialAmoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465114506715277544noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28584048.post-1161669839723937402006-10-23T23:03:00.000-07:002006-10-23T23:03:00.000-07:00You're right about the Times's faulty logic, Amos....You're right about the Times's faulty logic, Amos. But the logical position would have been for the Times to have supported free speech tout court. They were unfortunately not willing to bite the bullet and advocate de-criminalizing denying the Shoah.<BR/><BR/>As a Turkish historian who lives in Europe and has made considerable personal sacrifices for the sake of forthright scholarship on the Armenian genocide said to me last spring, when this law was being prepared and other countries were talking about the same:<BR/>"If this law passes, who will believe that I'm saying what I really think when I tell them that there was an Armenian genocide -- when to say the opposite would land me in jail?"<BR/><BR/>THAT is the compelling argument against criminalizing anyone's statements about history. <BR/>PeggyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com