Reply #15: A common ground for allowing free expression

[demoleft]

You say: "that the defense of the right of free expression is not restricted to ideas one approves of". Right.

A common ground is needed for mutual understanding. He refuses any.

To negate what a trial, books, documents, photos, videos, witnesses have proven true is only literally equal to express oneself freely. What's worth for? And for whom?

There's no possible dialogue with one who states "no" to anything humanly and scientifically known as "evidence". It's not even an act of communication: there's no common channel, no possible feedback.

The italian Prof who organized the meeting had invited a jewish counterpart, that refused to go. You must consider that the accident took place in an antifascist city with many streets dedicated to anti-nazi martyrs, in a Country whose Consitution forbids apology for Fascism.

On the other hand, Faurisson was not officially forbidden to climb upon a chair and make a speech aloud in a park or in some street.
Naturally, you have to take into account possible reactions when you touch "sensitive" subjects that some people may judge with "pain's" parameters, not with Voltaire's.

Though it is reported that people who tried to beat him had come from Rome well prepared, and targeted him, which is altogether unacceptable. I mean, it was not a local hot-blood popular reaction. It was planned.