Comment by [deleted] on 08/08/2014 at 14:33 UTC*

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Comment by Homomorphism at 08/08/2014 at 14:57 UTC

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Otters have very strong feelings on Holocaust denial laws.

Comment by Pyro_With_A_Lighter at 08/08/2014 at 15:19 UTC

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Just re-phrase it to North American and European otters having differing opinions on free speech.

Comment by NameIdeas at 08/08/2014 at 14:40 UTC

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Whoa...didn't mean to incite any anger...dang.

I'm not a fan of people going against all scholarship, research, and history just because they feel like.

As an American, I believe in the right to free speech, but I'm opposed to hate speech. Denying the holocaust, could be classified as hate speech.

But I digress. I'm always open to seeing both sides of an issue. I had a student who was a holocaust denier my second year teaching. I had him do a research paper defending that position. He had to find ten reputable sources (professors, well-known names in the field, journalists, documents from the time, etc) to prove the holocaust didn't happen. He also had to present the opposite side and find ten reputable sources claiming the Holocaust did occur. All in all, it was a great lesson in research and finding reputable sources for the student.

He told me at the time he still believed the Holocaust was made up, but a few years later he mentioned he was thinking about it more deeply.