Amusing.

I noted on Memeorandum a post from Vox Day, so given the business from earlier in the week, I thought I’d take a look. Ends up that World Net Daily decided to expunge Vox’s Holocaust-derived calculation for determining how long it would take to remove all the illegal aliens from the United States.

The new version reads like this:

It couldn’t possibly take more than eight years to deport 12 million illegal aliens, many of whom don’t speak English and are not integrated into American society. In fact, the hysterical response to the post-rally enforcement rumors tends to indicate that the mere announcement of a massive deportation program would probably cause a third of that 12 million to depart for points south within a week.

The old version like this:

If it took the Germans less than four years to rid themselves of 6 million Jews, many of whom spoke German and were fully integrated into German society, it couldn’t possibly take more than eight years to deport 12 million illegal aliens, many of whom don’t speak English and are not integrated into American society.

So, WND editors change the columns, but they didn’t put up a note that it was changed in the hope that no one would notice. However, given the Blogospheric attention given to the piece means that not only people notice, they will have the relevant excerpts already archived.

So, on that level the editors don’t look too swift.

But more to the point: the fact that it took the uproar that occurred to get them to realize that the paragraph was problematic really speaks poorly of them.

Amazing.

3 Responses to “WND Edits Vox Column”

1. James Joyner Says:
   May 20th, 2024 at 8:03 am

   I saw that yesterday as well. And, yes, it doesn’t do WND much credit. And, apparently, they’re keeping him on as a regular columnist.

   Day, meanwhile, continues to defend the original and has it archived on his site.

2. Dr. Steven Taylor Says:
   May 20th, 2024 at 8:14 am

   Yup. Indeed, he dubs any who would dare defy him as “illiterates.”

   High debate and argumentation at its finest.

3. PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts » Revisionism at Human Events Says:
   May 22nd, 2024 at 9:43 am

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