(No laughing matter: warp entities mock the racists in Saint Pancras Wormhole on their way to their alternative reality rally.)Holocaust deniers David Irving and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad caused scandal today by attending a rally held by holocaust affirmers in an alternative universe where the shoah, mercifully, never happened.
“We must support our fellow counterfactualists,” declared President Ahmadinejad, “in their struggle against what is true in that world.”
“I’m no racist,” said Irving, “but some races are so loathsome that I fail to see any contradiction in not tolerating them, or - in that other universe - so badly victimised that we must do everything we can to defend them from bigots like us.”
But the contentious twosome came under fierce criticism from MPs, pundits and well-meaning mobs.
“Why protect minorities of opinion?” wondered Grenadier Lazuli, MP for Ploddingham North. “If there’s one thing that history has shown us, it’s that the majority are always right.”
“No one believes in the right to freedom of speech more than me,” began pundit Gemma 2000, “but not if people exercise it. Some ideas are just too loathsome to refute with logic and evidence. I’d rather see their exponents hailed as heroes than do that.”
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