Comment by pjc50
9 years ago
Holocaust denial is a pro-genocide ideology. To deny the holocaust of the past is part of denying violence in the present day. It also implies that Jews are liars - it's a very strong piece of anti-semitism.
9 years ago
Holocaust denial is a pro-genocide ideology. To deny the holocaust of the past is part of denying violence in the present day. It also implies that Jews are liars - it's a very strong piece of anti-semitism.
> Holocaust denial is a pro-genocide ideology
Can you make this case more clearly? I get that it's anti-semitic (the lying point) but not how it's pro-genocide.
Holocaust denial is not something people come to accidentally or through a rational evaluation of the evidence. It's something people reach through anti-semitism. What do you think the reactions of someone denying the holocaust in the past would be to evidence of more genocide being planned in the present or future? Deniers are signalling their willingness to help genocide by turning a blind eye to it. They're showing that fear or hatred of Jews is more important to them than facts.
>It's something people reach through anti-semitism.
Believing some Jews and other enemies of the Nazis (e.g. Allied governments) lie is not the same thing as believing Jews should be exterminated.
> Holocaust denial is a pro-genocide ideology.
No that simply isn't true. Contemporary Nazis deny the holocaust because they can't morally justify following mass-murderers to themselves.