Did Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir push the boundary of ‘acceptable’ discourse to the Hitlerian extreme?
Reader says Jared Israel Quoted Mahathir ‘Out of Context’ Jared Israel replies This argument is no quibble. The EC editor argues that Mahathir’s speech was intended to make political antisemitism legitimate. His opponent argues that Mahathir wasn’t expressing bigotry at all; in other words, that what he said *is* legitimate. – John Flaherty Footnote added with text concerning Mahathir’s marriage of antisemitism and anti-Chinese racism in Malaysia.
