g-left: 40px”>American academic Norman Finkelstein has responded to Facebook and Twitter’s ban on Holocaust denial by saying he believes “that Holocaust denial should be taught in university and preferably by a Holocaust denier.”
In an article released on his website responding to the move – which he claims had been rejected by “multiple ‘progressive’ publications” – Prof Finkelstein argues that if “Holocaust denial does constitute an actual or potential contagion”, then it should be taught in academic institutions “to inoculate students”.
He continues: “To profess both that Holocaust denial shouldn’t be taught and that it poses a clear and present danger defies logic.
“The claim by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that an alleged global rise in antisemitism and ignorance of the Nazi Holocaust justify suppression of Holocaust denial no less lacks in logic.”
By that logic, why not have members of QAnon in, to explain to the students how a cabal of Satan-worshiping paedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotting against Donald Trump? You know – to inoculate them. Or have a flat-earther come in; or people claiming the moon landing was faked? It's absurd. Come to that, why not employ professors who teach that sex is a social construct and people can choose what gender they are?
Oh, hold on…
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