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From: wjr@utcs.UUCP (William Rucklidge)
Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics
Subject: Re: Ban the new testement with the Zundel law
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Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 16:54:15 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 12 16:54:15 1985
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Summary: 

> 
> 	We either make the assumption that people are not competent w.r.t.
> 	critically examining incoming information (eg: people are unable to
> 	interpret/self censor published material) and should be protected
> 	from them (censoring/banning Zundel's works, Keegstra's works, 
> 	the Bible, Talmud, Koran and what-have-you), otherwise they
> 	will start hating/killing/discriminating,
> 
> 	OR,
> 
> 	We assume that people *can* critically examine incoming information
> 	and *not* respond with inappropriate actions.

	Unfortunately, in Keegstra's case, the people he was exposing were
not able to critically examine this information: as their teacher, he was
presumably viewed as a source of knowledge and, as the testimony of some
of the students seems to indicate, the beliefs he was spreading were accepted
by the students. This was, of course, reinforced by the necessity that they
do assignments about the Jewish conspiracy etc., and the fact that they
received better marks for agreeing with him.

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