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A challenging thought from A. R. Moxon

  • 1.  A challenging thought from A. R. Moxon

    Posted Dec 18, 2024 04:45 AM

    Novelist A. R. Moxon on BlueSky [none of these words are my own, but I agree with him]:

    "People who say of Nazis 'deal with bad ideas is by defeating them in the marketplace of ideas' are smuggling in the notion that Nazi ideas have not already been defeated on the merits, and are still valid and worthy to consider, or that Nazi 'ideas' involve bloodless debate.

    "My rebuttal: 'Which Nazi ideas have not already been considered and rejected? Which have been unfairly thrown out? Which of them do you feel it is vital to rescue and restore and list on the 'marketplace of ideas?'

    "And when have Nazis ever been defeated in the way you suggest?"



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    Rory Litwin
    President
    Library Juice Academy
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