Ahmedinajad has never gone as far as to say that the Holocaust was a good thing and needed repeating - he has enough morality left to want to pretend that it did not happen
Actually, I doubt that. I suspect he just has enough political savvy not to say it in public.
Well, considering that he has spent a vast amount of government money in holocaust denial conferences, if he does not believe holocaust denial himself, he is a pretty thorough liar.
The two are not mutually exclusive. He might believe that the Holocaust has been greatly exaggerated, and also (more privately) believe that it would have been a good thing if it actually had gone further. Given that most Holocaust deniers are by definition raving anti-Semites, I suspect this is true for many of them.
In fact, this is quite clear in the case of the more media-savvy fascist/white supremacist movements. They publicly deny advocating racial hatred or violence, while simultaneously railing against the "Jewish lobby," endorsing (implicitly or explicitly) Nazi propaganda, and siding with Holocaust deniers.
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Date: 2010-01-27 07:20 pm (UTC)Actually, I doubt that. I suspect he just has enough political savvy not to say it in public.
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Date: 2010-01-27 07:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-27 07:51 pm (UTC)In fact, this is quite clear in the case of the more media-savvy fascist/white supremacist movements. They publicly deny advocating racial hatred or violence, while simultaneously railing against the "Jewish lobby," endorsing (implicitly or explicitly) Nazi propaganda, and siding with Holocaust deniers.
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Date: 2010-01-27 08:24 pm (UTC)