Re: Parody biography of Chomsky

Quoting J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>:

> In a message dated 2003:12:19 10:54:02 PM, trwier@UCHICAGO.EDU writes:
>
> > [...] And here's an excellent review of a biography of Chomsky by
> >my professor John Goldsmith which touches on why both Chomsky's
> >linguistic ideas and his politics rub some people the wrong way
> >(e.g. most famously his defense of a Holocaust-denier) [...]
>
>     Yick! AiYaaH!, "a Holocaust-denier", eh?
>     A "Historical Revisionist" is the accepted terminology AFAIK/IIRC...
Well, "revisionist" doesn't necessarily imply that the person in question has
unorthodox opinions on specifically the Holocaust, at least not in my neck of
the proverbial woods. It's just that that's the kind of revisionism that tends
to make people really upset. "Holocaust-denier" and similar expressions are
pretty commonly used in my experience.

                                                 Andreas