The intelligentsia of today and those who study them is reflected in the opinions expressed in the left leaning forums we've all participated in at one time or another. If I should write a book about it the salient quote here would be:
"The post-modern world should josh and jive with Ahmadinejad to get him to see the irony of his position, if that fails then try to convince him how the resultant cruelty and pain will be just too much public bother but he would be welcome to make it his own personal private project, and if that fails then changing the subject is sure to work" - The Distilled Wisdom of the LifeBoat forum.
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Ahmadinejad's denial that the Holocaust ever happened is curiously symbolic. It was after WWII and the Holocaust that the world-wide process of reconciliation between the Christians and the Jews began and has made great headway since. We can say that because of the Holocaust reconciliation began. There was no corresponding reconciliation between the Muslims and Jews. It is as if the Holocaust never happened. Disturbing to ponder. I hesitate eschatological thinking here but it is suggestive. In any case it would be a moral crime to permit a second Holocaust. Left-winger intellectuals inability to make sound moral arguments does not guarantee moral withstanding unless we are prepared with sharpened moral reasoning and argumentation.
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