{"id":2232,"date":"2018-04-26T19:15:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T23:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=2232"},"modified":"2018-05-09T16:51:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T20:51:16","slug":"how-can-bc-justify-paying-a-holocaust-denier-to-perform-at-modstock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/26\/how-can-bc-justify-paying-a-holocaust-denier-to-perform-at-modstock\/","title":{"rendered":"How can BC justify paying a Holocaust denier to perform at Modstock??"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2210\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2210\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/042618-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2210\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/042618-8-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"How can BC justify paying a Holocaust denier to perform at Modstock??\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/042618-8-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/042618-8-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/042618-8-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/042618-8.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How can BC justify paying a Holocaust denier to perform at Modstock??<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I get the impression from this article in the Boston Herald (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/herald-BoB\">bit.ly\/herald-BoB<\/a>) that the C.A.B. has justified B.o.B.&#8217;s appearance here by drawing a line between his beliefs and his art. The lyrics of &#8220;Flatline&#8221; reference the holocaust denier David Irving: &#8220;Do your research on David Irving\/ Stalin was way worse than Hitler&#8221;. B.o.B. didn&#8217;t do his research with this book: Telling lies about Hitler : the Holocaust, history and the David Irving trial, by Richard Evans, O&#8217;Neill Library KD379.5.I78 E95 2002. There are also a few books by Irving in our collection, from an era before he engaged in holocaust denial. BTW, B.o.B. is a flat-earther, too, and though I like flat&#8211;I&#8217;m a wall, you know&#8211;, there aren&#8217;t many sources within my walls that support that pre-Copernican view of the cosmos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get the impression from this article in the Boston Herald (bit.ly\/herald-BoB) that the C.A.B. has justified B.o.B.&#8217;s appearance here by drawing a line between his beliefs and his art. The lyrics of &#8220;Flatline&#8221; reference the holocaust denier David Irving: &#8220;Do your research on David Irving\/ Stalin was way worse than Hitler&#8221;. B.o.B. didn&#8217;t do &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/26\/how-can-bc-justify-paying-a-holocaust-denier-to-perform-at-modstock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How can BC justify paying a Holocaust denier to perform at Modstock??&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,55,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college","category-entertainment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions\/2258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}