How One of the Internet’s Biggest History Forums Deals with Holocaust Deniers

https://amp.slate.com/technology/2018/07/the-askhistorians-subreddit-banned-holocaust-deniers-and-facebook-should-too.html

by thomasmeeks • 8 years ago

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Nicksil• 8 years ago

Non-AMP link: https://slate.com/technology/2018/07/the-askhistorians-subre...

ranae• 8 years ago

While I may agree with the author's sentiment, platform denial will never be the correct answer when trying to change minds, nor will pushing the idea that there are questions one may not ask or that simply asking certain questions makes one somehow evil.

Beyond that, TFA could use some editing. I highly doubt that the users who frequent The_Donald are pro-Obama, or that the AskHistorians moderators suffer a daily barrage by Jewish supremacists.

bjourne• 8 years ago

I think that is wrong. I have debated with Holocaust deniers before. It is laughably easy to debunk their arguments. Denier brings up canned argument #5: Dachau had no gas chambers. A coherent counter-argument can be googled up in 15 minutes. Denier then moves on to canned argument #6 and you repeat the process. Time consuming, but not hard at all. They are so stupidly easy to expose that banning them just makes them appear more powerful than they really are.

Denialism isn't unique to the Holocaust either. It is used in lots of countries to try and cover up their less than stellar past.

How One of the Internet’s Biggest History Forums Deals with Holocaust Deniers

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