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I'm currently reading 'Denying History' by Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman, a refutation of revisionist claims. Holocaust revisionism itself struck me as a somewhat Fortean topic; it's a sort of political Flat Earth theory flying in the face of reality. The book's authors categorize it as 'pseudohistory' as opposed to being an alternative interpretation of what happened, and I think they're dead right; revisionism is not about history. It's about politics.
The book brought up so many issues; pseudohistory itself (from claims that ancient Egypt was populated by blacks to the Aryan race myths), the flexibility of the human mind when it comes to matters of belief (we really will believe anything), the problems of postmodernism (if nothing can be proved as true then nothing can be rejected as false, so how do we know what to believe), the reasons for the rise of the far right in contemporary Europe.
Anyway, back on topic: what are your views on Holocaust denial?
The book brought up so many issues; pseudohistory itself (from claims that ancient Egypt was populated by blacks to the Aryan race myths), the flexibility of the human mind when it comes to matters of belief (we really will believe anything), the problems of postmodernism (if nothing can be proved as true then nothing can be rejected as false, so how do we know what to believe), the reasons for the rise of the far right in contemporary Europe.
Anyway, back on topic: what are your views on Holocaust denial?