What if He Really Believes That Blacks and Jews Are a Certain Way?

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Yewa reminded of the holicostenil trial, where david irving sued deborah lipstat for calling him a holicost denyer. And then there's a climax toward the end of the trial where they're showing that onow he's not just incompetent, but he's incompetent in a certain direction. All his errors are all in the direction of exonerating the notesd and so forth. There was a whole a segment of the trial about his anti semsemetic views and his races views. So it's not some, you know, some kind of overt thing. It's just, that's part of who he is. How can you still hold him accountable

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