Poor Ben.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Not agenda, but an indication of power of the constituencies.

Which constituency to you believe Carson wishes to speak to with his theories about the Holocaust and homosexuality?

[Rajoo]

Divide and conquer at work.

[Dondilion]

"the court made a distinction with Holocaust denial"

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34542489

[donquixote99]

couldn't access that link for some reason--is BBC down?

Found another source for similar story: http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/...de-court-rules

Anyway, the distinction is with 'Armenian holocaust denial. That one is not prohibited speech, like the denying the nazi one is in some places.

Criminalizing hate speech is always tricky, and is likely to lead to funny rulings.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

"the court made a distinction with Holocaust denial"

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34542489

Would you care to explain what any of this has to do with Carson?

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Criminalizing hate speech is always tricky, and is likely to lead to funny rulings.

Indeed!

BTW the link is good.

[JBS...]

Originally Posted by JJIII

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/flora-...b_8295908.html

LOL "The poll was conducted earlier this week, it had 330 million respondents and no margin for error."

[Pio1980]

Carson more than implies that, because European Jews failed to avail themselves of the mystical magical power of the mere posession of firearms to somehow avert opression in the onslaught of overwhelming paramilitary/ military force, their fate was thus self inflicted.

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[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

Carson more than implies that, because European Jews failed to avail themselves of the mystical magical power of the mere posession of firearms to somehow avert opression in the onslaught of overwhelming paramilitary/ military force, their fate was thus self inflicted.

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He certainly does.

He also more than implies that gay men (and presumably women) are made, not born, and made through the experience of sexual trauma.

What a repugnant man!

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

Carson more than implies that, because European Jews failed to avail themselves of the mystical magical power of the mere posession of firearms to somehow avert opression in the onslaught of overwhelming paramilitary/ military force, their fate was thus self inflicted.

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No where do I read that Carson implies that that their fate was self inflicted.

Carson made a general statement that gun control made the holocaust easier.
His argument, albeit not deep, was not malicious nor impugn the Jews.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/op...holocaust.html