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Re: Holacaust Denial/Revisionism
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Originally Posted by liberty1776
May be I will not acknowledge the fighting words exception because it does not apply. There are glaraing disanalogies between the cases you present and the case of Holocaust denial.
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I would agree with you if we were talking about the US. But I don't feel I have an intimate enough knowledge of a country which suffered millions of deaths through the racist actions of the nazis to condemn their equation of nazi hate speech with inciting a riot or fighting words. Even if I was to disagree with their application of the law that disagreement could never (for me) reach the point where I would consider it "persecution" of holocaust deniers.
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