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Holocaust denial makes no sense. It's one thing to deny something that happened hundreds of years ago (eg the Black Plague) but there are still thousands of people alive that can remeber the Holocaust.
Comment by ibbity at 09/02/2014 at 17:57 UTC
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Holocaust denial happens because, although there ARE a lot of people alive that can remember the Holocaust, there are also a lot of people alive who really, really don't like Jews. (Case in point: that Flytape dude has gone on the record as saying that the Jews themselves were the ones responsible for causing the Holocaust.)
Comment by [deleted] at 09/02/2014 at 18:08 UTC*
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Comment by greenknight at 23/04/2014 at 20:05 UTC
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In my case, I just refuse to refer to the terrible treatment, interment, and extermination of Jews as a capital "H" holocaust. Why should the Jewish people have a cornered market on genocide when they weren't even subjected to the worst genocide in living memory? People are horrid to each other all over. I saw it referred to as the Judeocide and I think this a far better descriptor.