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Re:The AskHistorians subreddit banned Holocaust deniers (2018) by UncleMeat on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:34AM (#27064817)
How many more ideas? There's been 80 years of continuous demonstration that holocaust denial is ahistorical garbage. Yet people continue to believe it because it allows them to justify their hatred. When can we stop? Surely at some point people are allowed to say "no, go home" to the person who had nearly unlimited opportunity to educate themselves and refused.
Re:The AskHistorians subreddit banned Holocaust deniers (2018) by jjcon on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:43AM (#27064969)
> There's been 80 years of continuous demonstration that holocaust denial is ahistorical garbage. Yet people continue to believe it because it allows them to justify their hatred.

You are suggesting that our liberal approach to free speech has failed so we might as well go full authoritarian and shut down the crazy… all to prevent another tide of nazi authoritarianism?

That is hilariously contradictory.

Re:The AskHistorians subreddit banned Holocaust deniers (2018) by UncleMeat on Thursday May 06, 2021 @12:56PM (#27066094)
Full authoritarian? No. It is a subreddit.

At what point would you stop allowing somebody clearly engaging in bad faith from wasting your time? Never?

Re:The AskHistorians subreddit banned Holocaust deniers (2018) by nailer on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:37AM (#27064867)
Or just post a set of links refuting the most common claims. As you’ve said by now the topic has come up frequently enough.