Truth, strike two

[ciphergoth]

Thanks for some interesting and surprising responses to the JFK question. At the risk of creating more heat than light, let me try another example, one that I think might be a little less comfortable to be neutral about.

It seems that many people believe that on the morning of September 11, 2001, four thousand or more Israelis who were working at the World Trade Center did not show up for work.

Are those people wrong?

(Update: amended as per ajva's caveat)

Comments

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I mean "mistaken". I think it would just about be possible to think this and not be a screaming anti-Semite so long as you were mind-numbingly gullible.

I'm not asking for 100% certainty, just enough confidence in your opinion that if you heard someone saying that, you'd contradict them. It sounds like you would contradict this if you heard it.

[djm4]

Probably, if I were minded to say anything at all. Despite my reputation, I don't always lose sleep over Someone Being Wrong On The Internet, still less The Victoria Line.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I wasn't imagining strangers on the Victoria Line! Feel free to substitute some more contradiction-friendly environment.

[djm4]

I was reading '...you would contradict this if you heard it', as too much of a moral imperative, then; my apologies.