Food Network superstar Paula Deen is the latest celebrity to embark on an \u201capology tour,\u201d spending the past ten days releasing apology videos and making weepy teary appearances on TV shows begging for mercy for having used racial epithets in the presence of her employees, one of whom is currently suing her. I don\u2019t know the details of the case, and I don\u2019t want to know. The lawsuit will be decided by a court, not by me (and not by you). But I do want to say that I\u2018m sick to death of people being forced to publicly apologize.<\/h5>\nPerhaps it\u2019s because I was one of those people.<\/h5>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Not-Apologizing-300x263.jpg\" "\\"The")
<\/a>Two months ago, I was \u201couted\u201d as having spent five years, from 1990 through 1995, making various claims, on shows like 60 Minutes, The Phil Donahue Show, 48 Hours, and Montel Williams, regarding the Auschwitz camp and its role and function during the Holocaust. What I said was controversial, but my views were based on what I perceived to be the facts. I never uttered a single word that was in any way hateful or pro-Nazi, because I am the exact opposite of those things.<\/h5>\nAfter a large monetary bounty was put on my head by a violent extremist group, I changed my name, and spent the last eighteen years as David Stein. I built a very successful GOP event-organizing operation, and my political writing was carried by every major conservative site on the \u2018net, from FrontPageMag to Commentary and The Weekly Standard, from the Breitbart sites to The Daily Caller and HotAir, from The Blaze to The Washington Times and OReilly.com, and on shows including Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and the Larry Elder Show (where I had become an occasional guest\u2026he and I were even working on a documentary film together).<\/h5>\nAll of that came crashing down two months ago when a vindictive young woman who I had been financially supporting for five years objected to being cut off from the Dave gravy train. She knew of my past (I never kept it a secret from my close friends and loved ones), and she \u201couted\u201d me.<\/h5>\nI was now \u201cDavid Cole, the Jewish \u2018Holocaust revisionist\u2019 who\u2019d been \u2018hiding\u2019 as David Stein.\u201d The story of my<\/span> \u201couting<\/span><\/a>\u201d<\/span> was carried by The Huffington Post, Yahoo News, AOL News, The Guardian, Gawker, MSN, The Washington Times, American Spectator, and PJ Media.<\/h5>\nHalf of my sizeable network of (now former) friends disowned me, sent me angry emails, called me \u201cracist,\u201d \u201canti-Semitic,\u201d and \u201cpro-Nazi,\u201d and even pressured other GOPs to stay away from me.<\/h5>\nBut the other half just wanted to hear me apologize for the work I did 20 years ago. \u201cJust apologize<\/em> for the stuff you said when you were 22 years old, and all will be well! Just apologize!\u201d Several of these former friends went a good distance to try to strong-arm an apology out of me. There were even a few threats made.<\/h5>\nWell, apologize my ass.<\/em> I refused. I would not become a monkey dancing for the \u201capology police\u201d organ grinders.<\/h5>\nTo begin with, what I said 20 years ago is either right or wrong. If I erred, I\u2019ll cop to it. But admitting an error and apologizing for it are two completely different things. If a mathematician gets an equation wrong, he\u2019s not expected to fall all over himself apologizing. He\u2019s only expected to recognize the error and learn from it. You don\u2019t write history books by yelling names at people. Trying to convince a historian he\u2019s erred by yelling \u201cracist\u201d is like trying to bake a cake by screaming \u201cYOU STUPID CAKE.\u201d It\u2019s just not how these things work.<\/h5>\nThe problem with the \u201capology police\u201d is that once you give in to them, they never leave you alone. You see that every time a comedian apologizes for making a \u201cracist\u201d or \u201chomophobic\u201d joke. Conan O\u2019Brien is the king of apologies. He loves giving them. And the more of them he gives, the more he\u2019s asked to give. He apologized for Sarah Silverman when she made a \u201cracist\u201d joke on his show, and soon enough he was apologizing again to the entire population of Quebec for the fact that Triumph the Insult Comedy Dog (you know, the puppet that insults people<\/em>\u2026it\u2019s right there in his name) dared to make jokes about Montreal.<\/h5>\nWhen comedian Tracy Morgan apologized for making a \u201chomophobic\u201d joke in 2011, at his next show (and there\u2019s video of this) audience members began demanding apologies right then and there for every slightly off-color or edgy joke he did.<\/h5>\nHe brought it on himself. The apology police only go after those who they know will buckle. I call it the \u201cShalit Syndrome.\u201d<\/h5>\nIn January 2006, Today Show film critic Gene Shalit gave a negative review to Brokeback Mountain. That same week, In These Times published an expos\u00e9 of Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad\u2019s anti-gay \u201cpogrom,\u201d in which gay men were being tortured and killed. Who did GLAAD go after? Shalit, of course. Why? Because GLAAD knew that Shalit, the proud father of an openly gay son who had written time and again about his dad\u2019s unfailing support, would cave. Shalit, as far from a \u201chomophobe\u201d as is humanly possible, would be so emotionally devastated by being called one, of course<\/em> he\u2019d apologize for any offense his review might have given the gay community. Ahmadinejad, on the other hand, would have told GLAAD to shove it.<\/h5>\nAs expected, Shalit apologized, and GLAAD proudly trumpeted how it made a decent man cower before its might. Meanwhile, the Iranian government continued to murder gays. But so what, right? GLAAD got its apology. And isn\u2019t that all that matters?<\/h5>\nThe apology police are cowards. They go after people who are easily bullied. That\u2019s why I love South Park. Parker and Stone never apologize. I recall reading a blog from a \u201chandicapped rights\u201d advocate after the South Park episode \u201cCrippled Summer\u201d aired in 2010. The author was lamenting how Parker and Stone chose to portray the handicapped children in the episode as grotesque incarnations of Looney Tunes cartoon characters. But at the end of the post, the author admitted, \u201cthere\u2019s no sense in protesting, since those guys never apologize.\u201d<\/h5>\nExactly. If you don\u2019t apologize, you eventually get left alone.<\/h5>\nNow, I\u2019m not saying that celebrity apologies are always unwarranted. When actor Isaiah Washington used an anti-gay slur during a heated, off-camera argument with a Grey\u2019s Anatomy castmate, he absolutely owed that castmate, and the entire cast and crew of the show, an apology for his behavior. He did not<\/em> owe a public apology to every LGBT person on earth. If Paula Deen did everything her former employee alleges, she certainly owes an apology to that person, and to the other employees. And she should rightfully pay compensation for having created a hostile work environment.<\/h5>\nBut she doesn\u2019t owe me an apology, or you, for things she said privately behind the closed doors of her restaurant\u2019s kitchen.<\/h5>\nWhen senate candidate Todd Akin made his unbelievably stupid comments about rape last year, he responded with an apology video. And my point of view, which I made quite clear to my GOP allies at the time, was that I didn\u2019t give a crap about his apology. He needed to drop out of the race, period. To hell with the apology; he needed to do the right thing.<\/h5>\nBut far too many of my former colleagues thought the public prostration was good enough. Yet another reason I despise these public apologies. They\u2019ve become an easy out. If Paula Deen is sincere about her apology, she ought to settle up with the former employee and spare her the cost of a trial. Don\u2019t apologize to me<\/em>, Paula; I barely know who you are. Settle with the person to whom you directed the comments you supposedly regret.<\/h5>\nDo<\/em> the right thing. The apologies are nonsense. But they serve a dual purpose \u2013 they allow people like Akin and Deen to appear<\/em> to be doing the right thing without actually doing<\/em> anything but swallowing a bit of pride, and they allow \u201cadvocacy groups\u201d to feel like big shots for forcing famous people to bow down to them.<\/h5>\nIt\u2019s a circus sideshow, and one that\u2019s gaining more and more freaks and ticket-buyers every year. I refuse to be a part of it.<\/h5>\nMy situation involves matters that I believed to be historically factual. If people think I erred, they can show me my mistakes, and I will admit any error. But apologize? Cave in because someone calls me \u201cracist,\u201d or because my conservative friends apparently believe that recantation at the point of a sword is how historical debates are settled? Hell no. Never.<\/h5>\nUntil April 19, 2013, David Stein ran the Republican Party Animals organization. These days, he runs SteinCo Recyclable Bottle Reclamation Service, and he can often be found in Beverly Hills on the eve of trash pick-up day, combing recycle bins for redeemable bottles and cans, and leftover drops of liquor.<\/em><\/h5>\n\n
Source<\/a><\/p>\n\n
Also see what originally prompted the controversy in David Cole at <\/span>Auschwitz<\/span><\/a>. Having watched the video we think that you’ll agree, Stein has good reason to be defiant. Ed. <\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently a widely respected political analyst was outed as having previously been \u201cDavid Cole, the Jewish \u2018Holocaust revisionist\u2019 who\u2019d been \u2018hiding\u2019 as David Stein.\u201d Rather than meekly accept his fate, Stein comes out fighting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74598"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75012,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions\/75012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>Two months ago, I was \u201couted\u201d as having spent five years, from 1990 through 1995, making various claims, on shows like 60 Minutes, The Phil Donahue Show, 48 Hours, and Montel Williams, regarding the Auschwitz camp and its role and function during the Holocaust. What I said was controversial, but my views were based on what I perceived to be the facts. I never uttered a single word that was in any way hateful or pro-Nazi, because I am the exact opposite of those things.<\/h5>\nAfter a large monetary bounty was put on my head by a violent extremist group, I changed my name, and spent the last eighteen years as David Stein. I built a very successful GOP event-organizing operation, and my political writing was carried by every major conservative site on the \u2018net, from FrontPageMag to Commentary and The Weekly Standard, from the Breitbart sites to The Daily Caller and HotAir, from The Blaze to The Washington Times and OReilly.com, and on shows including Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and the Larry Elder Show (where I had become an occasional guest\u2026he and I were even working on a documentary film together).<\/h5>\nAll of that came crashing down two months ago when a vindictive young woman who I had been financially supporting for five years objected to being cut off from the Dave gravy train. She knew of my past (I never kept it a secret from my close friends and loved ones), and she \u201couted\u201d me.<\/h5>\nI was now \u201cDavid Cole, the Jewish \u2018Holocaust revisionist\u2019 who\u2019d been \u2018hiding\u2019 as David Stein.\u201d The story of my<\/span> \u201couting<\/span><\/a>\u201d<\/span> was carried by The Huffington Post, Yahoo News, AOL News, The Guardian, Gawker, MSN, The Washington Times, American Spectator, and PJ Media.<\/h5>\nHalf of my sizeable network of (now former) friends disowned me, sent me angry emails, called me \u201cracist,\u201d \u201canti-Semitic,\u201d and \u201cpro-Nazi,\u201d and even pressured other GOPs to stay away from me.<\/h5>\nBut the other half just wanted to hear me apologize for the work I did 20 years ago. \u201cJust apologize<\/em> for the stuff you said when you were 22 years old, and all will be well! Just apologize!\u201d Several of these former friends went a good distance to try to strong-arm an apology out of me. There were even a few threats made.<\/h5>\nWell, apologize my ass.<\/em> I refused. I would not become a monkey dancing for the \u201capology police\u201d organ grinders.<\/h5>\nTo begin with, what I said 20 years ago is either right or wrong. If I erred, I\u2019ll cop to it. But admitting an error and apologizing for it are two completely different things. If a mathematician gets an equation wrong, he\u2019s not expected to fall all over himself apologizing. He\u2019s only expected to recognize the error and learn from it. You don\u2019t write history books by yelling names at people. Trying to convince a historian he\u2019s erred by yelling \u201cracist\u201d is like trying to bake a cake by screaming \u201cYOU STUPID CAKE.\u201d It\u2019s just not how these things work.<\/h5>\nThe problem with the \u201capology police\u201d is that once you give in to them, they never leave you alone. You see that every time a comedian apologizes for making a \u201cracist\u201d or \u201chomophobic\u201d joke. Conan O\u2019Brien is the king of apologies. He loves giving them. And the more of them he gives, the more he\u2019s asked to give. He apologized for Sarah Silverman when she made a \u201cracist\u201d joke on his show, and soon enough he was apologizing again to the entire population of Quebec for the fact that Triumph the Insult Comedy Dog (you know, the puppet that insults people<\/em>\u2026it\u2019s right there in his name) dared to make jokes about Montreal.<\/h5>\nWhen comedian Tracy Morgan apologized for making a \u201chomophobic\u201d joke in 2011, at his next show (and there\u2019s video of this) audience members began demanding apologies right then and there for every slightly off-color or edgy joke he did.<\/h5>\nHe brought it on himself. The apology police only go after those who they know will buckle. I call it the \u201cShalit Syndrome.\u201d<\/h5>\nIn January 2006, Today Show film critic Gene Shalit gave a negative review to Brokeback Mountain. That same week, In These Times published an expos\u00e9 of Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad\u2019s anti-gay \u201cpogrom,\u201d in which gay men were being tortured and killed. Who did GLAAD go after? Shalit, of course. Why? Because GLAAD knew that Shalit, the proud father of an openly gay son who had written time and again about his dad\u2019s unfailing support, would cave. Shalit, as far from a \u201chomophobe\u201d as is humanly possible, would be so emotionally devastated by being called one, of course<\/em> he\u2019d apologize for any offense his review might have given the gay community. Ahmadinejad, on the other hand, would have told GLAAD to shove it.<\/h5>\nAs expected, Shalit apologized, and GLAAD proudly trumpeted how it made a decent man cower before its might. Meanwhile, the Iranian government continued to murder gays. But so what, right? GLAAD got its apology. And isn\u2019t that all that matters?<\/h5>\nThe apology police are cowards. They go after people who are easily bullied. That\u2019s why I love South Park. Parker and Stone never apologize. I recall reading a blog from a \u201chandicapped rights\u201d advocate after the South Park episode \u201cCrippled Summer\u201d aired in 2010. The author was lamenting how Parker and Stone chose to portray the handicapped children in the episode as grotesque incarnations of Looney Tunes cartoon characters. But at the end of the post, the author admitted, \u201cthere\u2019s no sense in protesting, since those guys never apologize.\u201d<\/h5>\nExactly. If you don\u2019t apologize, you eventually get left alone.<\/h5>\nNow, I\u2019m not saying that celebrity apologies are always unwarranted. When actor Isaiah Washington used an anti-gay slur during a heated, off-camera argument with a Grey\u2019s Anatomy castmate, he absolutely owed that castmate, and the entire cast and crew of the show, an apology for his behavior. He did not<\/em> owe a public apology to every LGBT person on earth. If Paula Deen did everything her former employee alleges, she certainly owes an apology to that person, and to the other employees. And she should rightfully pay compensation for having created a hostile work environment.<\/h5>\nBut she doesn\u2019t owe me an apology, or you, for things she said privately behind the closed doors of her restaurant\u2019s kitchen.<\/h5>\nWhen senate candidate Todd Akin made his unbelievably stupid comments about rape last year, he responded with an apology video. And my point of view, which I made quite clear to my GOP allies at the time, was that I didn\u2019t give a crap about his apology. He needed to drop out of the race, period. To hell with the apology; he needed to do the right thing.<\/h5>\nBut far too many of my former colleagues thought the public prostration was good enough. Yet another reason I despise these public apologies. They\u2019ve become an easy out. If Paula Deen is sincere about her apology, she ought to settle up with the former employee and spare her the cost of a trial. Don\u2019t apologize to me<\/em>, Paula; I barely know who you are. Settle with the person to whom you directed the comments you supposedly regret.<\/h5>\nDo<\/em> the right thing. The apologies are nonsense. But they serve a dual purpose \u2013 they allow people like Akin and Deen to appear<\/em> to be doing the right thing without actually doing<\/em> anything but swallowing a bit of pride, and they allow \u201cadvocacy groups\u201d to feel like big shots for forcing famous people to bow down to them.<\/h5>\nIt\u2019s a circus sideshow, and one that\u2019s gaining more and more freaks and ticket-buyers every year. I refuse to be a part of it.<\/h5>\nMy situation involves matters that I believed to be historically factual. If people think I erred, they can show me my mistakes, and I will admit any error. But apologize? Cave in because someone calls me \u201cracist,\u201d or because my conservative friends apparently believe that recantation at the point of a sword is how historical debates are settled? Hell no. Never.<\/h5>\nUntil April 19, 2013, David Stein ran the Republican Party Animals organization. These days, he runs SteinCo Recyclable Bottle Reclamation Service, and he can often be found in Beverly Hills on the eve of trash pick-up day, combing recycle bins for redeemable bottles and cans, and leftover drops of liquor.<\/em><\/h5>\n\n
Source<\/a><\/p>\n\n
Also see what originally prompted the controversy in David Cole at <\/span>Auschwitz<\/span><\/a>. Having watched the video we think that you’ll agree, Stein has good reason to be defiant. Ed. <\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently a widely respected political analyst was outed as having previously been \u201cDavid Cole, the Jewish \u2018Holocaust revisionist\u2019 who\u2019d been \u2018hiding\u2019 as David Stein.\u201d Rather than meekly accept his fate, Stein comes out fighting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74598"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75012,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions\/75012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Not-Apologizing.jpg\" "\\"The")
<\/a>Two months ago, I was \u201couted\u201d as having spent five years, from 1990 through 1995, making various claims, on shows like 60 Minutes, The Phil Donahue Show, 48 Hours, and Montel Williams, regarding the Auschwitz camp and its role and function during the Holocaust. What I said was controversial, but my views were based on what I perceived to be the facts. I never uttered a single word that was in any way hateful or pro-Nazi, because I am the exact opposite of those things.<\/h5>\nAll of that came crashing down two months ago when a vindictive young woman who I had been financially supporting for five years objected to being cut off from the Dave gravy train. She knew of my past (I never kept it a secret from my close friends and loved ones), and she \u201couted\u201d me.<\/h5>\nI was now \u201cDavid Cole, the Jewish \u2018Holocaust revisionist\u2019 who\u2019d been \u2018hiding\u2019 as David Stein.\u201d The story of my<\/span> \u201couting<\/span><\/a>\u201d<\/span> was carried by The Huffington Post, Yahoo News, AOL News, The Guardian, Gawker, MSN, The Washington Times, American Spectator, and PJ Media.<\/h5>\nHalf of my sizeable network of (now former) friends disowned me, sent me angry emails, called me \u201cracist,\u201d \u201canti-Semitic,\u201d and \u201cpro-Nazi,\u201d and even pressured other GOPs to stay away from me.<\/h5>\nBut the other half just wanted to hear me apologize for the work I did 20 years ago. \u201cJust apologize<\/em> for the stuff you said when you were 22 years old, and all will be well! Just apologize!\u201d Several of these former friends went a good distance to try to strong-arm an apology out of me. There were even a few threats made.<\/h5>\nWell, apologize my ass.<\/em> I refused. I would not become a monkey dancing for the \u201capology police\u201d organ grinders.<\/h5>\nTo begin with, what I said 20 years ago is either right or wrong. If I erred, I\u2019ll cop to it. But admitting an error and apologizing for it are two completely different things. If a mathematician gets an equation wrong, he\u2019s not expected to fall all over himself apologizing. He\u2019s only expected to recognize the error and learn from it. You don\u2019t write history books by yelling names at people. Trying to convince a historian he\u2019s erred by yelling \u201cracist\u201d is like trying to bake a cake by screaming \u201cYOU STUPID CAKE.\u201d It\u2019s just not how these things work.<\/h5>\nThe problem with the \u201capology police\u201d is that once you give in to them, they never leave you alone. You see that every time a comedian apologizes for making a \u201cracist\u201d or \u201chomophobic\u201d joke. Conan O\u2019Brien is the king of apologies. He loves giving them. And the more of them he gives, the more he\u2019s asked to give. He apologized for Sarah Silverman when she made a \u201cracist\u201d joke on his show, and soon enough he was apologizing again to the entire population of Quebec for the fact that Triumph the Insult Comedy Dog (you know, the puppet that insults people<\/em>\u2026it\u2019s right there in his name) dared to make jokes about Montreal.<\/h5>\nWhen comedian Tracy Morgan apologized for making a \u201chomophobic\u201d joke in 2011, at his next show (and there\u2019s video of this) audience members began demanding apologies right then and there for every slightly off-color or edgy joke he did.<\/h5>\nHe brought it on himself. The apology police only go after those who they know will buckle. I call it the \u201cShalit Syndrome.\u201d<\/h5>\nIn January 2006, Today Show film critic Gene Shalit gave a negative review to Brokeback Mountain. That same week, In These Times published an expos\u00e9 of Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad\u2019s anti-gay \u201cpogrom,\u201d in which gay men were being tortured and killed. Who did GLAAD go after? Shalit, of course. Why? Because GLAAD knew that Shalit, the proud father of an openly gay son who had written time and again about his dad\u2019s unfailing support, would cave. Shalit, as far from a \u201chomophobe\u201d as is humanly possible, would be so emotionally devastated by being called one, of course<\/em> he\u2019d apologize for any offense his review might have given the gay community. Ahmadinejad, on the other hand, would have told GLAAD to shove it.<\/h5>\nAs expected, Shalit apologized, and GLAAD proudly trumpeted how it made a decent man cower before its might. Meanwhile, the Iranian government continued to murder gays. But so what, right? GLAAD got its apology. And isn\u2019t that all that matters?<\/h5>\nThe apology police are cowards. They go after people who are easily bullied. That\u2019s why I love South Park. Parker and Stone never apologize. I recall reading a blog from a \u201chandicapped rights\u201d advocate after the South Park episode \u201cCrippled Summer\u201d aired in 2010. The author was lamenting how Parker and Stone chose to portray the handicapped children in the episode as grotesque incarnations of Looney Tunes cartoon characters. But at the end of the post, the author admitted, \u201cthere\u2019s no sense in protesting, since those guys never apologize.\u201d<\/h5>\nExactly. If you don\u2019t apologize, you eventually get left alone.<\/h5>\nNow, I\u2019m not saying that celebrity apologies are always unwarranted. When actor Isaiah Washington used an anti-gay slur during a heated, off-camera argument with a Grey\u2019s Anatomy castmate, he absolutely owed that castmate, and the entire cast and crew of the show, an apology for his behavior. He did not<\/em> owe a public apology to every LGBT person on earth. If Paula Deen did everything her former employee alleges, she certainly owes an apology to that person, and to the other employees. And she should rightfully pay compensation for having created a hostile work environment.<\/h5>\nBut she doesn\u2019t owe me an apology, or you, for things she said privately behind the closed doors of her restaurant\u2019s kitchen.<\/h5>\nWhen senate candidate Todd Akin made his unbelievably stupid comments about rape last year, he responded with an apology video. And my point of view, which I made quite clear to my GOP allies at the time, was that I didn\u2019t give a crap about his apology. He needed to drop out of the race, period. To hell with the apology; he needed to do the right thing.<\/h5>\nBut far too many of my former colleagues thought the public prostration was good enough. Yet another reason I despise these public apologies. They\u2019ve become an easy out. If Paula Deen is sincere about her apology, she ought to settle up with the former employee and spare her the cost of a trial. Don\u2019t apologize to me<\/em>, Paula; I barely know who you are. Settle with the person to whom you directed the comments you supposedly regret.<\/h5>\nDo<\/em> the right thing. The apologies are nonsense. But they serve a dual purpose \u2013 they allow people like Akin and Deen to appear<\/em> to be doing the right thing without actually doing<\/em> anything but swallowing a bit of pride, and they allow \u201cadvocacy groups\u201d to feel like big shots for forcing famous people to bow down to them.<\/h5>\nIt\u2019s a circus sideshow, and one that\u2019s gaining more and more freaks and ticket-buyers every year. I refuse to be a part of it.<\/h5>\nMy situation involves matters that I believed to be historically factual. If people think I erred, they can show me my mistakes, and I will admit any error. But apologize? Cave in because someone calls me \u201cracist,\u201d or because my conservative friends apparently believe that recantation at the point of a sword is how historical debates are settled? Hell no. Never.<\/h5>\nUntil April 19, 2013, David Stein ran the Republican Party Animals organization. These days, he runs SteinCo Recyclable Bottle Reclamation Service, and he can often be found in Beverly Hills on the eve of trash pick-up day, combing recycle bins for redeemable bottles and cans, and leftover drops of liquor.<\/em><\/h5>\n\n
Source<\/a><\/p>\n\n
Also see what originally prompted the controversy in David Cole at <\/span>Auschwitz<\/span><\/a>. Having watched the video we think that you’ll agree, Stein has good reason to be defiant. Ed. <\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently a widely respected political analyst was outed as having previously been \u201cDavid Cole, the Jewish \u2018Holocaust revisionist\u2019 who\u2019d been \u2018hiding\u2019 as David Stein.\u201d Rather than meekly accept his fate, Stein comes out fighting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74598"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75012,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions\/75012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Half of my sizeable network of (now former) friends disowned me, sent me angry emails, called me \u201cracist,\u201d \u201canti-Semitic,\u201d and \u201cpro-Nazi,\u201d and even pressured other GOPs to stay away from me.<\/h5>\nBut the other half just wanted to hear me apologize for the work I did 20 years ago. \u201cJust apologize<\/em> for the stuff you said when you were 22 years old, and all will be well! Just apologize!\u201d Several of these former friends went a good distance to try to strong-arm an apology out of me. There were even a few threats made.<\/h5>\nWell, apologize my ass.<\/em> I refused. I would not become a monkey dancing for the \u201capology police\u201d organ grinders.<\/h5>\nTo begin with, what I said 20 years ago is either right or wrong. If I erred, I\u2019ll cop to it. But admitting an error and apologizing for it are two completely different things. If a mathematician gets an equation wrong, he\u2019s not expected to fall all over himself apologizing. He\u2019s only expected to recognize the error and learn from it. You don\u2019t write history books by yelling names at people. Trying to convince a historian he\u2019s erred by yelling \u201cracist\u201d is like trying to bake a cake by screaming \u201cYOU STUPID CAKE.\u201d It\u2019s just not how these things work.<\/h5>\nThe problem with the \u201capology police\u201d is that once you give in to them, they never leave you alone. You see that every time a comedian apologizes for making a \u201cracist\u201d or \u201chomophobic\u201d joke. Conan O\u2019Brien is the king of apologies. He loves giving them. And the more of them he gives, the more he\u2019s asked to give. He apologized for Sarah Silverman when she made a \u201cracist\u201d joke on his show, and soon enough he was apologizing again to the entire population of Quebec for the fact that Triumph the Insult Comedy Dog (you know, the puppet that insults people<\/em>\u2026it\u2019s right there in his name) dared to make jokes about Montreal.<\/h5>\nWhen comedian Tracy Morgan apologized for making a \u201chomophobic\u201d joke in 2011, at his next show (and there\u2019s video of this) audience members began demanding apologies right then and there for every slightly off-color or edgy joke he did.<\/h5>\nHe brought it on himself. The apology police only go after those who they know will buckle. I call it the \u201cShalit Syndrome.\u201d<\/h5>\nIn January 2006, Today Show film critic Gene Shalit gave a negative review to Brokeback Mountain. That same week, In These Times published an expos\u00e9 of Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad\u2019s anti-gay \u201cpogrom,\u201d in which gay men were being tortured and killed. Who did GLAAD go after? Shalit, of course. Why? Because GLAAD knew that Shalit, the proud father of an openly gay son who had written time and again about his dad\u2019s unfailing support, would cave. Shalit, as far from a \u201chomophobe\u201d as is humanly possible, would be so emotionally devastated by being called one, of course<\/em> he\u2019d apologize for any offense his review might have given the gay community. Ahmadinejad, on the other hand, would have told GLAAD to shove it.<\/h5>\nAs expected, Shalit apologized, and GLAAD proudly trumpeted how it made a decent man cower before its might. Meanwhile, the Iranian government continued to murder gays. But so what, right? GLAAD got its apology. And isn\u2019t that all that matters?<\/h5>\nThe apology police are cowards. They go after people who are easily bullied. That\u2019s why I love South Park. Parker and Stone never apologize. I recall reading a blog from a \u201chandicapped rights\u201d advocate after the South Park episode \u201cCrippled Summer\u201d aired in 2010. The author was lamenting how Parker and Stone chose to portray the handicapped children in the episode as grotesque incarnations of Looney Tunes cartoon characters. But at the end of the post, the author admitted, \u201cthere\u2019s no sense in protesting, since those guys never apologize.\u201d<\/h5>\nExactly. If you don\u2019t apologize, you eventually get left alone.<\/h5>\nNow, I\u2019m not saying that celebrity apologies are always unwarranted. When actor Isaiah Washington used an anti-gay slur during a heated, off-camera argument with a Grey\u2019s Anatomy castmate, he absolutely owed that castmate, and the entire cast and crew of the show, an apology for his behavior. He did not<\/em> owe a public apology to every LGBT person on earth. If Paula Deen did everything her former employee alleges, she certainly owes an apology to that person, and to the other employees. And she should rightfully pay compensation for having created a hostile work environment.<\/h5>\nBut she doesn\u2019t owe me an apology, or you, for things she said privately behind the closed doors of her restaurant\u2019s kitchen.<\/h5>\nWhen senate candidate Todd Akin made his unbelievably stupid comments about rape last year, he responded with an apology video. And my point of view, which I made quite clear to my GOP allies at the time, was that I didn\u2019t give a crap about his apology. He needed to drop out of the race, period. To hell with the apology; he needed to do the right thing.<\/h5>\nBut far too many of my former colleagues thought the public prostration was good enough. Yet another reason I despise these public apologies. They\u2019ve become an easy out. If Paula Deen is sincere about her apology, she ought to settle up with the former employee and spare her the cost of a trial. Don\u2019t apologize to me<\/em>, Paula; I barely know who you are. Settle with the person to whom you directed the comments you supposedly regret.<\/h5>\nDo<\/em> the right thing. The apologies are nonsense. But they serve a dual purpose \u2013 they allow people like Akin and Deen to appear<\/em> to be doing the right thing without actually doing<\/em> anything but swallowing a bit of pride, and they allow \u201cadvocacy groups\u201d to feel like big shots for forcing famous people to bow down to them.<\/h5>\nIt\u2019s a circus sideshow, and one that\u2019s gaining more and more freaks and ticket-buyers every year. I refuse to be a part of it.<\/h5>\nMy situation involves matters that I believed to be historically factual. If people think I erred, they can show me my mistakes, and I will admit any error. But apologize? Cave in because someone calls me \u201cracist,\u201d or because my conservative friends apparently believe that recantation at the point of a sword is how historical debates are settled? Hell no. Never.<\/h5>\nUntil April 19, 2013, David Stein ran the Republican Party Animals organization. These days, he runs SteinCo Recyclable Bottle Reclamation Service, and he can often be found in Beverly Hills on the eve of trash pick-up day, combing recycle bins for redeemable bottles and cans, and leftover drops of liquor.<\/em><\/h5>\n\n
Source<\/a><\/p>\n\n
Also see what originally prompted the controversy in David Cole at <\/span>Auschwitz<\/span><\/a>. Having watched the video we think that you’ll agree, Stein has good reason to be defiant. Ed. <\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently a widely respected political analyst was outed as having previously been \u201cDavid Cole, the Jewish \u2018Holocaust revisionist\u2019 who\u2019d been \u2018hiding\u2019 as David Stein.\u201d Rather than meekly accept his fate, Stein comes out fighting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74598"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75012,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions\/75012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Well, apologize my ass.<\/em> I refused. I would not become a monkey dancing for the \u201capology police\u201d organ grinders.<\/h5>\nTo begin with, what I said 20 years ago is either right or wrong. If I erred, I\u2019ll cop to it. But admitting an error and apologizing for it are two completely different things. If a mathematician gets an equation wrong, he\u2019s not expected to fall all over himself apologizing. He\u2019s only expected to recognize the error and learn from it. You don\u2019t write history books by yelling names at people. Trying to convince a historian he\u2019s erred by yelling \u201cracist\u201d is like trying to bake a cake by screaming \u201cYOU STUPID CAKE.\u201d It\u2019s just not how these things work.<\/h5>\nThe problem with the \u201capology police\u201d is that once you give in to them, they never leave you alone. You see that every time a comedian apologizes for making a \u201cracist\u201d or \u201chomophobic\u201d joke. Conan O\u2019Brien is the king of apologies. He loves giving them. And the more of them he gives, the more he\u2019s asked to give. He apologized for Sarah Silverman when she made a \u201cracist\u201d joke on his show, and soon enough he was apologizing again to the entire population of Quebec for the fact that Triumph the Insult Comedy Dog (you know, the puppet that insults people<\/em>\u2026it\u2019s right there in his name) dared to make jokes about Montreal.<\/h5>\nWhen comedian Tracy Morgan apologized for making a \u201chomophobic\u201d joke in 2011, at his next show (and there\u2019s video of this) audience members began demanding apologies right then and there for every slightly off-color or edgy joke he did.<\/h5>\nHe brought it on himself. The apology police only go after those who they know will buckle. I call it the \u201cShalit Syndrome.\u201d<\/h5>\nIn January 2006, Today Show film critic Gene Shalit gave a negative review to Brokeback Mountain. That same week, In These Times published an expos\u00e9 of Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad\u2019s anti-gay \u201cpogrom,\u201d in which gay men were being tortured and killed. Who did GLAAD go after? Shalit, of course. Why? Because GLAAD knew that Shalit, the proud father of an openly gay son who had written time and again about his dad\u2019s unfailing support, would cave. Shalit, as far from a \u201chomophobe\u201d as is humanly possible, would be so emotionally devastated by being called one, of course<\/em> he\u2019d apologize for any offense his review might have given the gay community. Ahmadinejad, on the other hand, would have told GLAAD to shove it.<\/h5>\nAs expected, Shalit apologized, and GLAAD proudly trumpeted how it made a decent man cower before its might. Meanwhile, the Iranian government continued to murder gays. But so what, right? GLAAD got its apology. And isn\u2019t that all that matters?<\/h5>\nThe apology police are cowards. They go after people who are easily bullied. That\u2019s why I love South Park. Parker and Stone never apologize. I recall reading a blog from a \u201chandicapped rights\u201d advocate after the South Park episode \u201cCrippled Summer\u201d aired in 2010. The author was lamenting how Parker and Stone chose to portray the handicapped children in the episode as grotesque incarnations of Looney Tunes cartoon characters. But at the end of the post, the author admitted, \u201cthere\u2019s no sense in protesting, since those guys never apologize.\u201d<\/h5>\nExactly. If you don\u2019t apologize, you eventually get left alone.<\/h5>\nNow, I\u2019m not saying that celebrity apologies are always unwarranted. When actor Isaiah Washington used an anti-gay slur during a heated, off-camera argument with a Grey\u2019s Anatomy castmate, he absolutely owed that castmate, and the entire cast and crew of the show, an apology for his behavior. He did not<\/em> owe a public apology to every LGBT person on earth. If Paula Deen did everything her former employee alleges, she certainly owes an apology to that person, and to the other employees. And she should rightfully pay compensation for having created a hostile work environment.<\/h5>\nBut she doesn\u2019t owe me an apology, or you, for things she said privately behind the closed doors of her restaurant\u2019s kitchen.<\/h5>\nWhen senate candidate Todd Akin made his unbelievably stupid comments about rape last year, he responded with an apology video. And my point of view, which I made quite clear to my GOP allies at the time, was that I didn\u2019t give a crap about his apology. He needed to drop out of the race, period. To hell with the apology; he needed to do the right thing.<\/h5>\nBut far too many of my former colleagues thought the public prostration was good enough. Yet another reason I despise these public apologies. They\u2019ve become an easy out. If Paula Deen is sincere about her apology, she ought to settle up with the former employee and spare her the cost of a trial. Don\u2019t apologize to me<\/em>, Paula; I barely know who you are. Settle with the person to whom you directed the comments you supposedly regret.<\/h5>\nDo<\/em> the right thing. The apologies are nonsense. But they serve a dual purpose \u2013 they allow people like Akin and Deen to appear<\/em> to be doing the right thing without actually doing<\/em> anything but swallowing a bit of pride, and they allow \u201cadvocacy groups\u201d to feel like big shots for forcing famous people to bow down to them.<\/h5>\nIt\u2019s a circus sideshow, and one that\u2019s gaining more and more freaks and ticket-buyers every year. I refuse to be a part of it.<\/h5>\nMy situation involves matters that I believed to be historically factual. If people think I erred, they can show me my mistakes, and I will admit any error. But apologize? Cave in because someone calls me \u201cracist,\u201d or because my conservative friends apparently believe that recantation at the point of a sword is how historical debates are settled? Hell no. Never.<\/h5>\nUntil April 19, 2013, David Stein ran the Republican Party Animals organization. These days, he runs SteinCo Recyclable Bottle Reclamation Service, and he can often be found in Beverly Hills on the eve of trash pick-up day, combing recycle bins for redeemable bottles and cans, and leftover drops of liquor.<\/em><\/h5>\n\n
Source<\/a><\/p>\n\n
Also see what originally prompted the controversy in David Cole at <\/span>Auschwitz<\/span><\/a>. Having watched the video we think that you’ll agree, Stein has good reason to be defiant. Ed. <\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently a widely respected political analyst was outed as having previously been \u201cDavid Cole, the Jewish \u2018Holocaust revisionist\u2019 who\u2019d been \u2018hiding\u2019 as David Stein.\u201d Rather than meekly accept his fate, Stein comes out fighting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74598"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75012,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions\/75012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The problem with the \u201capology police\u201d is that once you give in to them, they never leave you alone. You see that every time a comedian apologizes for making a \u201cracist\u201d or \u201chomophobic\u201d joke. Conan O\u2019Brien is the king of apologies. He loves giving them. And the more of them he gives, the more he\u2019s asked to give. He apologized for Sarah Silverman when she made a \u201cracist\u201d joke on his show, and soon enough he was apologizing again to the entire population of Quebec for the fact that Triumph the Insult Comedy Dog (you know, the puppet that insults people<\/em>\u2026it\u2019s right there in his name) dared to make jokes about Montreal.<\/h5>\nWhen comedian Tracy Morgan apologized for making a \u201chomophobic\u201d joke in 2011, at his next show (and there\u2019s video of this) audience members began demanding apologies right then and there for every slightly off-color or edgy joke he did.<\/h5>\nHe brought it on himself. The apology police only go after those who they know will buckle. I call it the \u201cShalit Syndrome.\u201d<\/h5>\nIn January 2006, Today Show film critic Gene Shalit gave a negative review to Brokeback Mountain. That same week, In These Times published an expos\u00e9 of Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad\u2019s anti-gay \u201cpogrom,\u201d in which gay men were being tortured and killed. Who did GLAAD go after? Shalit, of course. Why? Because GLAAD knew that Shalit, the proud father of an openly gay son who had written time and again about his dad\u2019s unfailing support, would cave. Shalit, as far from a \u201chomophobe\u201d as is humanly possible, would be so emotionally devastated by being called one, of course<\/em> he\u2019d apologize for any offense his review might have given the gay community. Ahmadinejad, on the other hand, would have told GLAAD to shove it.<\/h5>\nAs expected, Shalit apologized, and GLAAD proudly trumpeted how it made a decent man cower before its might. Meanwhile, the Iranian government continued to murder gays. But so what, right? GLAAD got its apology. And isn\u2019t that all that matters?<\/h5>\nThe apology police are cowards. They go after people who are easily bullied. That\u2019s why I love South Park. Parker and Stone never apologize. I recall reading a blog from a \u201chandicapped rights\u201d advocate after the South Park episode \u201cCrippled Summer\u201d aired in 2010. The author was lamenting how Parker and Stone chose to portray the handicapped children in the episode as grotesque incarnations of Looney Tunes cartoon characters. But at the end of the post, the author admitted, \u201cthere\u2019s no sense in protesting, since those guys never apologize.\u201d<\/h5>\nExactly. If you don\u2019t apologize, you eventually get left alone.<\/h5>\nNow, I\u2019m not saying that celebrity apologies are always unwarranted. When actor Isaiah Washington used an anti-gay slur during a heated, off-camera argument with a Grey\u2019s Anatomy castmate, he absolutely owed that castmate, and the entire cast and crew of the show, an apology for his behavior. He did not<\/em> owe a public apology to every LGBT person on earth. If Paula Deen did everything her former employee alleges, she certainly owes an apology to that person, and to the other employees. And she should rightfully pay compensation for having created a hostile work environment.<\/h5>\nBut she doesn\u2019t owe me an apology, or you, for things she said privately behind the closed doors of her restaurant\u2019s kitchen.<\/h5>\nWhen senate candidate Todd Akin made his unbelievably stupid comments about rape last year, he responded with an apology video. And my point of view, which I made quite clear to my GOP allies at the time, was that I didn\u2019t give a crap about his apology. He needed to drop out of the race, period. To hell with the apology; he needed to do the right thing.<\/h5>\nBut far too many of my former colleagues thought the public prostration was good enough. Yet another reason I despise these public apologies. They\u2019ve become an easy out. If Paula Deen is sincere about her apology, she ought to settle up with the former employee and spare her the cost of a trial. Don\u2019t apologize to me<\/em>, Paula; I barely know who you are. Settle with the person to whom you directed the comments you supposedly regret.<\/h5>\nDo<\/em> the right thing. The apologies are nonsense. But they serve a dual purpose \u2013 they allow people like Akin and Deen to appear<\/em> to be doing the right thing without actually doing<\/em> anything but swallowing a bit of pride, and they allow \u201cadvocacy groups\u201d to feel like big shots for forcing famous people to bow down to them.<\/h5>\nIt\u2019s a circus sideshow, and one that\u2019s gaining more and more freaks and ticket-buyers every year. I refuse to be a part of it.<\/h5>\nMy situation involves matters that I believed to be historically factual. If people think I erred, they can show me my mistakes, and I will admit any error. But apologize? Cave in because someone calls me \u201cracist,\u201d or because my conservative friends apparently believe that recantation at the point of a sword is how historical debates are settled? Hell no. Never.<\/h5>\nUntil April 19, 2013, David Stein ran the Republican Party Animals organization. These days, he runs SteinCo Recyclable Bottle Reclamation Service, and he can often be found in Beverly Hills on the eve of trash pick-up day, combing recycle bins for redeemable bottles and cans, and leftover drops of liquor.<\/em><\/h5>\n\n
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Also see what originally prompted the controversy in David Cole at <\/span>Auschwitz<\/span><\/a>. Having watched the video we think that you’ll agree, Stein has good reason to be defiant. Ed. <\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently a widely respected political analyst was outed as having previously been \u201cDavid Cole, the Jewish \u2018Holocaust revisionist\u2019 who\u2019d been \u2018hiding\u2019 as David Stein.\u201d Rather than meekly accept his fate, Stein comes out fighting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74598"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75012,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions\/75012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
He brought it on himself. The apology police only go after those who they know will buckle. I call it the \u201cShalit Syndrome.\u201d<\/h5>\nIn January 2006, Today Show film critic Gene Shalit gave a negative review to Brokeback Mountain. That same week, In These Times published an expos\u00e9 of Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad\u2019s anti-gay \u201cpogrom,\u201d in which gay men were being tortured and killed. Who did GLAAD go after? Shalit, of course. Why? Because GLAAD knew that Shalit, the proud father of an openly gay son who had written time and again about his dad\u2019s unfailing support, would cave. Shalit, as far from a \u201chomophobe\u201d as is humanly possible, would be so emotionally devastated by being called one, of course<\/em> he\u2019d apologize for any offense his review might have given the gay community. Ahmadinejad, on the other hand, would have told GLAAD to shove it.<\/h5>\nAs expected, Shalit apologized, and GLAAD proudly trumpeted how it made a decent man cower before its might. Meanwhile, the Iranian government continued to murder gays. But so what, right? GLAAD got its apology. And isn\u2019t that all that matters?<\/h5>\nThe apology police are cowards. They go after people who are easily bullied. That\u2019s why I love South Park. Parker and Stone never apologize. I recall reading a blog from a \u201chandicapped rights\u201d advocate after the South Park episode \u201cCrippled Summer\u201d aired in 2010. The author was lamenting how Parker and Stone chose to portray the handicapped children in the episode as grotesque incarnations of Looney Tunes cartoon characters. But at the end of the post, the author admitted, \u201cthere\u2019s no sense in protesting, since those guys never apologize.\u201d<\/h5>\nExactly. If you don\u2019t apologize, you eventually get left alone.<\/h5>\nNow, I\u2019m not saying that celebrity apologies are always unwarranted. When actor Isaiah Washington used an anti-gay slur during a heated, off-camera argument with a Grey\u2019s Anatomy castmate, he absolutely owed that castmate, and the entire cast and crew of the show, an apology for his behavior. He did not<\/em> owe a public apology to every LGBT person on earth. If Paula Deen did everything her former employee alleges, she certainly owes an apology to that person, and to the other employees. And she should rightfully pay compensation for having created a hostile work environment.<\/h5>\nBut she doesn\u2019t owe me an apology, or you, for things she said privately behind the closed doors of her restaurant\u2019s kitchen.<\/h5>\nWhen senate candidate Todd Akin made his unbelievably stupid comments about rape last year, he responded with an apology video. And my point of view, which I made quite clear to my GOP allies at the time, was that I didn\u2019t give a crap about his apology. He needed to drop out of the race, period. To hell with the apology; he needed to do the right thing.<\/h5>\nBut far too many of my former colleagues thought the public prostration was good enough. Yet another reason I despise these public apologies. They\u2019ve become an easy out. If Paula Deen is sincere about her apology, she ought to settle up with the former employee and spare her the cost of a trial. Don\u2019t apologize to me<\/em>, Paula; I barely know who you are. Settle with the person to whom you directed the comments you supposedly regret.<\/h5>\nDo<\/em> the right thing. The apologies are nonsense. But they serve a dual purpose \u2013 they allow people like Akin and Deen to appear<\/em> to be doing the right thing without actually doing<\/em> anything but swallowing a bit of pride, and they allow \u201cadvocacy groups\u201d to feel like big shots for forcing famous people to bow down to them.<\/h5>\nIt\u2019s a circus sideshow, and one that\u2019s gaining more and more freaks and ticket-buyers every year. I refuse to be a part of it.<\/h5>\nMy situation involves matters that I believed to be historically factual. If people think I erred, they can show me my mistakes, and I will admit any error. But apologize? Cave in because someone calls me \u201cracist,\u201d or because my conservative friends apparently believe that recantation at the point of a sword is how historical debates are settled? Hell no. Never.<\/h5>\nUntil April 19, 2013, David Stein ran the Republican Party Animals organization. These days, he runs SteinCo Recyclable Bottle Reclamation Service, and he can often be found in Beverly Hills on the eve of trash pick-up day, combing recycle bins for redeemable bottles and cans, and leftover drops of liquor.<\/em><\/h5>\n\n
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Also see what originally prompted the controversy in David Cole at <\/span>Auschwitz<\/span><\/a>. Having watched the video we think that you’ll agree, Stein has good reason to be defiant. Ed. <\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently a widely respected political analyst was outed as having previously been \u201cDavid Cole, the Jewish \u2018Holocaust revisionist\u2019 who\u2019d been \u2018hiding\u2019 as David Stein.\u201d Rather than meekly accept his fate, Stein comes out fighting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74598"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75012,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions\/75012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
As expected, Shalit apologized, and GLAAD proudly trumpeted how it made a decent man cower before its might. Meanwhile, the Iranian government continued to murder gays. But so what, right? GLAAD got its apology. And isn\u2019t that all that matters?<\/h5>\nThe apology police are cowards. They go after people who are easily bullied. That\u2019s why I love South Park. Parker and Stone never apologize. I recall reading a blog from a \u201chandicapped rights\u201d advocate after the South Park episode \u201cCrippled Summer\u201d aired in 2010. The author was lamenting how Parker and Stone chose to portray the handicapped children in the episode as grotesque incarnations of Looney Tunes cartoon characters. But at the end of the post, the author admitted, \u201cthere\u2019s no sense in protesting, since those guys never apologize.\u201d<\/h5>\nExactly. If you don\u2019t apologize, you eventually get left alone.<\/h5>\nNow, I\u2019m not saying that celebrity apologies are always unwarranted. When actor Isaiah Washington used an anti-gay slur during a heated, off-camera argument with a Grey\u2019s Anatomy castmate, he absolutely owed that castmate, and the entire cast and crew of the show, an apology for his behavior. He did not<\/em> owe a public apology to every LGBT person on earth. If Paula Deen did everything her former employee alleges, she certainly owes an apology to that person, and to the other employees. And she should rightfully pay compensation for having created a hostile work environment.<\/h5>\nBut she doesn\u2019t owe me an apology, or you, for things she said privately behind the closed doors of her restaurant\u2019s kitchen.<\/h5>\nWhen senate candidate Todd Akin made his unbelievably stupid comments about rape last year, he responded with an apology video. And my point of view, which I made quite clear to my GOP allies at the time, was that I didn\u2019t give a crap about his apology. He needed to drop out of the race, period. To hell with the apology; he needed to do the right thing.<\/h5>\nBut far too many of my former colleagues thought the public prostration was good enough. Yet another reason I despise these public apologies. They\u2019ve become an easy out. If Paula Deen is sincere about her apology, she ought to settle up with the former employee and spare her the cost of a trial. Don\u2019t apologize to me<\/em>, Paula; I barely know who you are. Settle with the person to whom you directed the comments you supposedly regret.<\/h5>\nDo<\/em> the right thing. The apologies are nonsense. But they serve a dual purpose \u2013 they allow people like Akin and Deen to appear<\/em> to be doing the right thing without actually doing<\/em> anything but swallowing a bit of pride, and they allow \u201cadvocacy groups\u201d to feel like big shots for forcing famous people to bow down to them.<\/h5>\nIt\u2019s a circus sideshow, and one that\u2019s gaining more and more freaks and ticket-buyers every year. I refuse to be a part of it.<\/h5>\nMy situation involves matters that I believed to be historically factual. If people think I erred, they can show me my mistakes, and I will admit any error. But apologize? Cave in because someone calls me \u201cracist,\u201d or because my conservative friends apparently believe that recantation at the point of a sword is how historical debates are settled? Hell no. Never.<\/h5>\nUntil April 19, 2013, David Stein ran the Republican Party Animals organization. These days, he runs SteinCo Recyclable Bottle Reclamation Service, and he can often be found in Beverly Hills on the eve of trash pick-up day, combing recycle bins for redeemable bottles and cans, and leftover drops of liquor.<\/em><\/h5>\n\n
Source<\/a><\/p>\n\n
Also see what originally prompted the controversy in David Cole at <\/span>Auschwitz<\/span><\/a>. Having watched the video we think that you’ll agree, Stein has good reason to be defiant. Ed. <\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently a widely respected political analyst was outed as having previously been \u201cDavid Cole, the Jewish \u2018Holocaust revisionist\u2019 who\u2019d been \u2018hiding\u2019 as David Stein.\u201d Rather than meekly accept his fate, Stein comes out fighting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74598"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75012,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions\/75012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Exactly. If you don\u2019t apologize, you eventually get left alone.<\/h5>\nNow, I\u2019m not saying that celebrity apologies are always unwarranted. When actor Isaiah Washington used an anti-gay slur during a heated, off-camera argument with a Grey\u2019s Anatomy castmate, he absolutely owed that castmate, and the entire cast and crew of the show, an apology for his behavior. He did not<\/em> owe a public apology to every LGBT person on earth. If Paula Deen did everything her former employee alleges, she certainly owes an apology to that person, and to the other employees. And she should rightfully pay compensation for having created a hostile work environment.<\/h5>\nBut she doesn\u2019t owe me an apology, or you, for things she said privately behind the closed doors of her restaurant\u2019s kitchen.<\/h5>\nWhen senate candidate Todd Akin made his unbelievably stupid comments about rape last year, he responded with an apology video. And my point of view, which I made quite clear to my GOP allies at the time, was that I didn\u2019t give a crap about his apology. He needed to drop out of the race, period. To hell with the apology; he needed to do the right thing.<\/h5>\nBut far too many of my former colleagues thought the public prostration was good enough. Yet another reason I despise these public apologies. They\u2019ve become an easy out. If Paula Deen is sincere about her apology, she ought to settle up with the former employee and spare her the cost of a trial. Don\u2019t apologize to me<\/em>, Paula; I barely know who you are. Settle with the person to whom you directed the comments you supposedly regret.<\/h5>\nDo<\/em> the right thing. The apologies are nonsense. But they serve a dual purpose \u2013 they allow people like Akin and Deen to appear<\/em> to be doing the right thing without actually doing<\/em> anything but swallowing a bit of pride, and they allow \u201cadvocacy groups\u201d to feel like big shots for forcing famous people to bow down to them.<\/h5>\nIt\u2019s a circus sideshow, and one that\u2019s gaining more and more freaks and ticket-buyers every year. I refuse to be a part of it.<\/h5>\nMy situation involves matters that I believed to be historically factual. If people think I erred, they can show me my mistakes, and I will admit any error. But apologize? Cave in because someone calls me \u201cracist,\u201d or because my conservative friends apparently believe that recantation at the point of a sword is how historical debates are settled? Hell no. Never.<\/h5>\nUntil April 19, 2013, David Stein ran the Republican Party Animals organization. These days, he runs SteinCo Recyclable Bottle Reclamation Service, and he can often be found in Beverly Hills on the eve of trash pick-up day, combing recycle bins for redeemable bottles and cans, and leftover drops of liquor.<\/em><\/h5>\n\n
Source<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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But she doesn\u2019t owe me an apology, or you, for things she said privately behind the closed doors of her restaurant\u2019s kitchen.<\/h5>\nWhen senate candidate Todd Akin made his unbelievably stupid comments about rape last year, he responded with an apology video. And my point of view, which I made quite clear to my GOP allies at the time, was that I didn\u2019t give a crap about his apology. He needed to drop out of the race, period. To hell with the apology; he needed to do the right thing.<\/h5>\nBut far too many of my former colleagues thought the public prostration was good enough. Yet another reason I despise these public apologies. They\u2019ve become an easy out. If Paula Deen is sincere about her apology, she ought to settle up with the former employee and spare her the cost of a trial. Don\u2019t apologize to me<\/em>, Paula; I barely know who you are. Settle with the person to whom you directed the comments you supposedly regret.<\/h5>\nDo<\/em> the right thing. The apologies are nonsense. But they serve a dual purpose \u2013 they allow people like Akin and Deen to appear<\/em> to be doing the right thing without actually doing<\/em> anything but swallowing a bit of pride, and they allow \u201cadvocacy groups\u201d to feel like big shots for forcing famous people to bow down to them.<\/h5>\nIt\u2019s a circus sideshow, and one that\u2019s gaining more and more freaks and ticket-buyers every year. I refuse to be a part of it.<\/h5>\nMy situation involves matters that I believed to be historically factual. If people think I erred, they can show me my mistakes, and I will admit any error. But apologize? Cave in because someone calls me \u201cracist,\u201d or because my conservative friends apparently believe that recantation at the point of a sword is how historical debates are settled? Hell no. Never.<\/h5>\nUntil April 19, 2013, David Stein ran the Republican Party Animals organization. These days, he runs SteinCo Recyclable Bottle Reclamation Service, and he can often be found in Beverly Hills on the eve of trash pick-up day, combing recycle bins for redeemable bottles and cans, and leftover drops of liquor.<\/em><\/h5>\n\n
Source<\/a><\/p>\n\n
Also see what originally prompted the controversy in David Cole at <\/span>Auschwitz<\/span><\/a>. Having watched the video we think that you’ll agree, Stein has good reason to be defiant. Ed. <\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently a widely respected political analyst was outed as having previously been \u201cDavid Cole, the Jewish \u2018Holocaust revisionist\u2019 who\u2019d been \u2018hiding\u2019 as David Stein.\u201d Rather than meekly accept his fate, Stein comes out fighting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74598"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75012,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions\/75012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
But far too many of my former colleagues thought the public prostration was good enough. Yet another reason I despise these public apologies. They\u2019ve become an easy out. If Paula Deen is sincere about her apology, she ought to settle up with the former employee and spare her the cost of a trial. Don\u2019t apologize to me<\/em>, Paula; I barely know who you are. Settle with the person to whom you directed the comments you supposedly regret.<\/h5>\nDo<\/em> the right thing. The apologies are nonsense. But they serve a dual purpose \u2013 they allow people like Akin and Deen to appear<\/em> to be doing the right thing without actually doing<\/em> anything but swallowing a bit of pride, and they allow \u201cadvocacy groups\u201d to feel like big shots for forcing famous people to bow down to them.<\/h5>\nIt\u2019s a circus sideshow, and one that\u2019s gaining more and more freaks and ticket-buyers every year. I refuse to be a part of it.<\/h5>\nMy situation involves matters that I believed to be historically factual. If people think I erred, they can show me my mistakes, and I will admit any error. But apologize? Cave in because someone calls me \u201cracist,\u201d or because my conservative friends apparently believe that recantation at the point of a sword is how historical debates are settled? Hell no. Never.<\/h5>\nUntil April 19, 2013, David Stein ran the Republican Party Animals organization. These days, he runs SteinCo Recyclable Bottle Reclamation Service, and he can often be found in Beverly Hills on the eve of trash pick-up day, combing recycle bins for redeemable bottles and cans, and leftover drops of liquor.<\/em><\/h5>\n\n
Source<\/a><\/p>\n\n
Also see what originally prompted the controversy in David Cole at <\/span>Auschwitz<\/span><\/a>. Having watched the video we think that you’ll agree, Stein has good reason to be defiant. Ed. <\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently a widely respected political analyst was outed as having previously been \u201cDavid Cole, the Jewish \u2018Holocaust revisionist\u2019 who\u2019d been \u2018hiding\u2019 as David Stein.\u201d Rather than meekly accept his fate, Stein comes out fighting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74598"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75012,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions\/75012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
It\u2019s a circus sideshow, and one that\u2019s gaining more and more freaks and ticket-buyers every year. I refuse to be a part of it.<\/h5>\nMy situation involves matters that I believed to be historically factual. If people think I erred, they can show me my mistakes, and I will admit any error. But apologize? Cave in because someone calls me \u201cracist,\u201d or because my conservative friends apparently believe that recantation at the point of a sword is how historical debates are settled? Hell no. Never.<\/h5>\nUntil April 19, 2013, David Stein ran the Republican Party Animals organization. These days, he runs SteinCo Recyclable Bottle Reclamation Service, and he can often be found in Beverly Hills on the eve of trash pick-up day, combing recycle bins for redeemable bottles and cans, and leftover drops of liquor.<\/em><\/h5>\n\n
Source<\/a><\/p>\n\n
Also see what originally prompted the controversy in David Cole at <\/span>Auschwitz<\/span><\/a>. Having watched the video we think that you’ll agree, Stein has good reason to be defiant. Ed. <\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently a widely respected political analyst was outed as having previously been \u201cDavid Cole, the Jewish \u2018Holocaust revisionist\u2019 who\u2019d been \u2018hiding\u2019 as David Stein.\u201d Rather than meekly accept his fate, Stein comes out fighting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74598"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75012,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions\/75012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Until April 19, 2013, David Stein ran the Republican Party Animals organization. These days, he runs SteinCo Recyclable Bottle Reclamation Service, and he can often be found in Beverly Hills on the eve of trash pick-up day, combing recycle bins for redeemable bottles and cans, and leftover drops of liquor.<\/em><\/h5>\n\n
Source<\/a><\/p>\n\n
Also see what originally prompted the controversy in David Cole at <\/span>Auschwitz<\/span><\/a>. Having watched the video we think that you’ll agree, Stein has good reason to be defiant. Ed. <\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently a widely respected political analyst was outed as having previously been \u201cDavid Cole, the Jewish \u2018Holocaust revisionist\u2019 who\u2019d been \u2018hiding\u2019 as David Stein.\u201d Rather than meekly accept his fate, Stein comes out fighting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74598"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75012,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74598\/revisions\/75012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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