{"id":8398,"date":"2009-03-05T07:33:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T15:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8398"},"modified":"2009-03-05T07:33:10","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T15:33:10","slug":"the-case-for-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8398","title":{"rendered":"The Case For Dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jay emails: &quot;Hey Luke!  <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8299\">I was watching your interview with the revisionist outside of the Oscars<\/a> and was thinking about why there isn&#8217;t ever a dialogue between holocaust revisionist\/ deniers and actual survivors. Education is  more effective, right?  Like I think it was good how you talked to the guy, gave him a chance to express his views. That&#8217;s better then just shutting him down.  I&#8217;ve been thinking about how my grandma  survived Auschwitz and is still alive.  How interesting would it be to do some sort of Documentary where we get these two different groups together for dialogue.  It could be disastrous, or it could  be enlightening. What do you think?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I suspect those who deny the Holocaust will not to be open to what the survivors say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay emails: &quot;Hey Luke! I was watching your interview with the revisionist outside of the Oscars and was thinking about why there isn&#8217;t ever a dialogue between holocaust revisionist\/ deniers and actual survivors. Education is more effective, right? 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