I am noticing a rise in Holocaust denial with the rising anti-Zionism coming out of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Many of these YouTubers, tiktokers, and podcasters point to the writings of David Irving as proof. I know he is a holocaust denier and an idiot, but I would like to read it so I could point out the exact flaws in Irving’s “evidence” and stop getting the comment “You haven’t even read it!”. I also don’t want to send a penny to this author, but also don’t want to break the law in getting access to it.

How would you go about this situation?

    • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      11 days ago

      You are not obligated to read the book.

      You should feel obligated to nothing except to remunerate people fairly for their work if you want it.

      • bitcrafter@programming.dev
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        11 days ago

        Sure, I am obviously not obligated to read the book, but what I was specifically responding to was the following remark:

        Yeah isolating yourself from everyone you disagree with is awesome, truly nothing bad ever comes out of it.

        which in turn was a response to the following:

        Do you have to agree with everyone you give your money to? What sort of economy would that be?

        Probably a pretty nice one, actually.