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San Francisco BART Trains Now Feature Ads From Antisemitic Holocaust Denial Group.
September 12, 2018, 12:17 PM
Skins2881San Francisco BART Trains Now Feature Ads From Antisemitic Holocaust Denial Group.
Just when you think they can't sink any further, boom they out do themselves. As if the druggies shooting up in BART stations, feces everywhere, homeless accosting people, and used needles abound weren't enough.
San Francisco BART stations feature ads from Holocaust denial group quote:
Bay Area Rapid Transit approved advertisements from a group that promotes Holocaust denials and anti-Semitic sentiments, citing the organization’s right to free speech.
Institute for Historical Review’s billboards feature the words “History Matters!” The billboards are in rotation in at least two BART stations in San Francisco, The Guardian reported Wednesday.
The group was founded by Holocaust denier Willis Carto in 1978 and the group published an article saying there was “no evidence for Nazi gas chambers” and Germans were no more anti-Semitic than any other people.”
Mark Weber, the organization’s director, told the newspaper the group paid $6,400 for the ads and was initially denied when the designs included a link to their website. Once the link was removed, the ads were approved, he said.
The group’s website has “published articles and items that reasonably could be called Holocaust denial, but it doesn’t necessarily represent my view or the views of the IHR,” Weber told The Guardian.
BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost said: “We cannot deny the ads.
“You have to look at it for exactly what words are used and what images are used … There is plenty of case law and court rulings that show if you deny the ad, you can be taken to court, and you’ll lose, and that’s obviously costly.”
Trost said she understood the public backlash.
When people look into it, they are upset about the ads, which is understandable,” she said.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum characterizes the Institute for Historical Review as a group that “concentrates on spreading revisionist propaganda on the Internet and on sending speakers to appear at various forums, including universities in the USA.”
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Sic Semper Tyrannis September 12, 2018, 02:21 PM
Jimbo JonesSo can the American Nazi Party also advertise for recruiting purposes on the BART ?
What about NAMBLA?
quote:
BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost said: “We cannot deny the ads.
“You have to look at it for exactly what words are used and what images are used … There is plenty of case law and court rulings that show if you deny the ad, you can be taken to court, and you’ll lose, and that’s obviously costly.”
BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost said: “We cannot deny the ads.
“You have to look at it for exactly what words are used and what images are used … There is plenty of case law and court rulings that show if you deny the ad, you can be taken to court, and you’ll lose, and that’s obviously costly.”
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It's like my brain's a tree and you're those little cookie elves.
September 12, 2018, 02:29 PM
oddballquote:
Bay Area Rapid Transit approved advertisements from a group that promotes Holocaust denials and anti-Semitic sentiments, citing the organization’s right to free speech.
I'll bet money that they would deny ad space for an organization that disputes global warming. Or if the NRA decided to advertise on BART. Or Glock. Yeah, let's see how far that "right to free speech" goes
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
September 12, 2018, 02:33 PM
gearhoundsMore intolerance from the tolerant left...
“Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown September 12, 2018, 02:39 PM
kz1000It would be a pity if they were defaced...
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"Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt"
"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."
-Bomber Harris
September 12, 2018, 02:52 PM
4x5Let's take up a collection and make an ad debunking global warming. "They can't deny it", right?
Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice - pull down your pants and slide on the ice.
ʘ ͜ʖ ʘ September 12, 2018, 03:23 PM
bertoquote:
Originally posted by oddball:
I'll bet money that they would deny ad space for an organization that disputes global warming. Or if the NRA decided to advertise on BART. Or Glock. Yeah, let's see how far that "right to free speech" goes
A few years ago MUNI, SF's bus system, was forced to allow ads for a gun rights conference on bus shelters on 1A grounds. I don't remember if the threat of litigation was enough or papers had to be filed but the posters went up.
September 12, 2018, 04:14 PM
MikitoI wouldn't be surprised if anything they don't like is labeled "hate speech" and denied on those grounds.