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]

Do you really believe that if we had this debate on livejournal, we could get through it without someone coming in, foaming at the mouth, accusing one of us of anti-Semitism? I don't - which is why I won't engage.

At this stage I think it's very, very unlikely that some stranger is going to come in and accuse you of anti-Semitism, and even more unlikely that anyone who knows you will, but if you do I'll delete their comments and bar them from commenting - I won't have that sort of thing here.

As vvalkyri says, though, it doesn't have to be this example. Please feel free to choose your own example; anything where you think most people who read this journal generally feel that X is not true and it's a problem that some people go around asserting X. It does necessarily have to have a little more emotional load than the JFK example, though, because what I'm trying to find out is whether you're prepared to defend your position even where it really matters. Any of the alternatives she suggests would be equally good for me.