Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust; studii şi cercetări
Angaben zur Quelle:
2,1 (2010) 157-185
Schlagwort(e):
Antisemitism History 21st century
;
Holocaust denial
Kurzfassung:
Examines three incidents involving racist and antisemitic speech. In 2009 the Croatian journalist Vedrana Rudan made a televised appeal to Jews to "stop being Jewish and start being human beings"; in an attempt to justify her words, she brought a (distorted) quotation from Anne Frank's diary. In 1999 Polish historian Dariusz Ratajczak was put on trial for having published a book that embraced Holocaust denial and was acquitted; later, some rightist political figures in Poland made racist pronouncements, which did not impede their careers. In 2009 Hungarian journalist Zsolt Bayer published a series of anti-Roma and anti-Jewish declarations in the "Magyar Nemzet" newspaper. He was defended not only by the newspaper's editor-in-chief, but also by two Romanian colleagues, journalists Cristan Tudor Popescu and Horia-Roman Patapievici. In all these cases, journalists and historians came to the defense of their nationalist colleagues, and themselves resorted to antisemitic arguments, acting in the name of freedom of speech and raising their voices against "political correctness", which they dubbed "American Stalinism". Argues that following the principle of freedom of speech does not oblige mainstream publishers to help antisemites in the dissemination of their hate speech, nor does it deny the principle of media responsibility. The anti-communism of Eastern European intellectuals today does not justify their defense of colleagues who make politically incorrect, e.g. antisemitic declarations.
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