Hektor wrote: ↑Thu Feb 12, 2026 7:54 am
Nessie wrote: ↑Wed Feb 11, 2026 6:35 pm
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The Holocaust has been investigated in
the same way every historical event has. Evidence has been gathered, to establish what claims made can be corroborated and verified and establish a chronology of events.
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That simply is not true. No other subject is as negatively sanctioned as the Holocaust-theme is. If your conclusion rejects the hypothesis, you will face repercussions in one way or the other. What makes the Holocaust-Narrative unique is that in many countries folks who 'deny it' have to face legally sanctioned violence like imprisonment.
Denying historical events took place, invites sanction in many instances. Those sanctions can be legal and result in arrests, for example, discussing Tianaman Square in a way that the Chinese authorities do not approve of. Or they can result in academic ostracism, or social media pile-ons. People have been driven into exile, for promoting histories that are not officially approved of. Criticising the Soviet government for the Holodomor would have meant arrest and time in the gulags.
It is overly Western-centric to believe that the Holocaust is the historical subject that is the most negatively sanctioned.
The Holocaust narrative has been determined by exactly the same forms of evidence that are used to construct any historical narrative. Eyewitnesses, documents, physical evidence, imagery, archaeology, forensics and circumstances are used to build the chronology of what took place to the Jews during WWII. Since much of what took place was also a crime, motive, ability, opportunity and conduct after the crime have also been evidenced.
Holocaust deniers claim they can revise the history, but they all fail to do so. They invite sanction, because their claims are inherently anti-Semitic, as they resort to tropes about Jewish power, influence, greed and dishonesty. They produce a pseudo non-history, that is based on illogical arguments and lies about the state and extent of the evidence.
As proven by my repeated quarantining, challenging so-called revisionist methodology and exposing its flaws, is the most effective way to attack Holocaust denial/revisionism.