What does a real anti-Nazi hero look like?

I came across this great blog post today. It makes several good points, but the best was to simply remind me about Canada's greatest fighter against neo-Nazism and Holocaust revisionism, Ken McVay. From his bio:

McVay often spent 18 to 20 hours a day typing, and soon found that he had somehow amassed over 3500 pages of information. As the flood of information increased, so did demands for the information; requests inundated McVay's electronic mailbox, and he soon found himself a defacto, full-time Holocaust researcher and librarian to the world of the Internet.

Today he has built one of the most extensive and thorough information sources about the Holocaust and the activities of racists and white supremacists in the world. McVay devotes countless hours to the maintenance and improvement of this massive collection, which now exceeds one million pages.

And here's what McVay had to say about censorship, when interviewed by a German newspaper:

Do you share the willingness to grant freedom of speech even to the enemies of freedom?

McVay: Yes, I do. What possible good comes, for instance, from forcing these Nazis underground? Will that make them stop hating? Has it ever stopped the hate? As a people, we must start taking responsibility for our behavior, and for our problems, rather than expecting "government" to do it for us. In short, we need to learn to carry our own baggage, and to face our social problems squarely.

So what does a real anti-Nazi hero look like? A modest volunteer who has quietly compiled 1 million pages of rebuttals to neo-Nazis around the world, or a self-important blowhard who, when he’s not congratulating himself for snapping photos of swastikas in locker rooms, is comparing his own tribulations to those of Jesus, Moses and Mohammed?

McVey ought to be careful, though. As a “free speecher”, he’ll be smeared as a crypto-Nazi soon enough.