Friday 3 April 2015

"O, my beloved father.."

Not words, I imagine uttered by Marine le Pen this week as le Pen senior, Jean Marie the honorary president of the Front National, stood by his belief that the gas chambers were a "detail of history".
Defying anyone to cite a single instance of anti-Semitism in his political career le Pen père said that his claim was quite simply a fact.
Daughter Marine quickly distanced herself and her party from daddy, saying that she did not share this view.
This is the kind of sophistry which is used by extremists to try and hoodwink people into thinking that they are simply stating the truth. Yes, it can be claimed that it is a fact that it was a detail. But it is a detail so horrifying that any right thinking person would be condemning it, not brushing it aside.
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