“Here’s a modern parallel, from the experience of the Jewish community, that might clarify what I mean. “Some people, usually for anti-Semitic purposes, deny or downplay the horrors of the Holocaust. But it has been the Jewish scholars who’ve created museums, written books, preserved artifacts, and documented eyewitness testimony concerning the Holocaust. “Now, they have a very ideological purpose—namely, to ensure that such an atrocity never occurs again—but they have also been the most faithful and objective in their reporting of historical truth.
This analogy doesn't hold up for me. Comparing a handful of books and letters to the mountains of evidence supporting the holocaust seems unjustified, and even comparing these two events feels cheap. Also, I’m pretty sure this book came out pre-Godwin’s Law, but I still think it applies.
