Reply #206: Wrt the holocaust Chomsky doesn't even consider whether or not Faurisson's

[rman]

Wrt the holocaust Chomsky doesn't even consider whether or not Faurisson's claims are true. Because that's not the issue.

...I do not think the state ought to have the right to determine historical truth and to punish people if they deviate from it.
...If someone publishes an article that i disagree with, i do not say the state ought to put him in jail.

...i have taken far more extreme positions against people who deny the holocaust then you have... Even to enter into the arena of debate on the question of whether the nazi's carried out such atrocities, is already to lose ones humanity. So i even don't think you ought to discuss the issue, if you want to know my opinion.

-- Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent