Mark Oppenheimer begins: “I had an odd reaction to reading The New York Times obituary of Willis Carto, the tediously loathsome elder statesman of the American anti-Semitic right. He died last Monday at his home in Virginia, leaving behind a putrid little trail of defunct newsletters and failed Holocaust denial magazines, but when he was at full-strength, in the 1970s and 1980s, his literature was read not only by wackadoo Hitler worshippers…”
When did the hurling of slurs become a respectable form of writing? There are only two honorable forms of argument — challenging facts and logic. Name-calling is not honorable.
If Willis Carto devoted his talents to helping Jews, he would be a hero to his people. Instead, Willis Carto devoted himself to helping goyim. So he’s loathsome.
Osama Bin Laden devoted his life to his people. From an American and a Jewish perspective, he was evil. From an Arab and Muslim perspective, he was a hero. One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. It all depends on where you are coming from.
