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The Anti-Defamation League has a history
of championing minorities (and minority opinions). But some opinions
need to be challenged. A group of ultra-right wing neo-fascists
ran ads in college newspapers, claiming the Holocaust was a fabrication.
Ignoring the ads would encourage more outrageous claims. Debating
it point by point would give the proposition too much credence.
The answer was to unmask the motives behind the madness, which
became easy once it was discovered that one of the leaders of
this movement was quoted as saying "I don't want to spend
time with adults anymore. I want to go to students. They are superficial.
They are empty vessels to be filled."
This ad, in which the ADL unmasked the
hypocracy behind the facade
of impartial opinion, ran only a few times. Yet no
publication in which it ran ever saw a Holocaust revisionist ad
again.
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