From: Francesco Brighenti
Message: 64567
Date: 2009-08-02
> Racism was the science of the day in recent history. If you denyRight of speech must be denied *today* to *living* racist pseudo-scholars, after any biological base for the racist discourse has been clearly negated by empirical science. The intellectuals you cite in your post did not know this *yet*.
> the right of speech to "racists", it means you have to burn the
> books of most intellectuals of the two centuries until 1945:
> Darwin, Voltaire, Hegel, Kant etc. etc., and politicians like
> Disraeli, slaves' emancipator Lincoln, anti-Nazi champion
> Churchill, can all be quoted making statements that would bring
> them to court under anti-racism laws today.