Saw this on telly last night. I can't fathom Irving. What a cunt.
Saw this on telly last night. I can't fathom Irving. What a cunt.
Complete and total shithead. One of my big term projects in college was on the Holocaust denial, or "revisionist" movement, and Irving is a leading figure.
"You laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at you because I'm on nitrous."
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I managed to get through the little poem he made up for his grandbaby, and I had to stop watching. People like him shouldn't be given a forum.
So, I'll whisper in the dark, hoping you'll hear me.
Justice is served: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_...s_and_Lipstadt
What I find staggering is that this court ruling was necessary at all. How does a slimy hick like this get notoriety, authority, and a fan base?
Because, he says outrageous things that a certain segment of the population wants to hear, and he says them with absolute certainty and authority. There are people who want to hate, and those people see an older gentleman in a suit telling them that the things (people, in this case) they hate are Bad Things, so they eat it up with a spoon. It makes them feel validated to have their rage articulated so matter-of-factly. Meanwhile, the rest of us really want to believe that the people who say things like he says are knuckle dragging idiots, or at least an obvious kind of thug, so seeing the older gentleman in a suit speaking matter-of-factly about his insane beliefs makes us want to argue, since he looks like a reasonable man who should be able to see reason when we show it to him. So, he gets an audience, gets some detractors, gets a bigger audience because he has detractors, and we as a world are stuck with him.
At least, that's my theory.
So, I'll whisper in the dark, hoping you'll hear me.
"You laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at you because I'm on nitrous."
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