(09-26-2011, 03:48 PM)kandrathe Wrote: I tend to lend more credence to the victims, rather than the brute.
Historical. Record.
It matters. It honestly does. You don't get to make up quotes by Hitler, just because he's a bad guy. His being good, or bad, or upside down, has ZERO bearing on what he did and did not say. Truthiness is insufficient. Indeed, we should be *most* suspicious of unsourced or badly sourced claims that reinforce our preconceptions, because those are the ones most likely to get past our bullshit detectors.
I don't care who you prefer to believe in terms of opinions. But what Che said, and did not say, are matters of fact. Nobody gets to make those up.
-Jester