It isn’t. Holocaust revisionism is largely legal. Holocaust denial is not, but only in some places. You can deny the holocaust in the UK all you like. People will think you’re an asshole, but it’s not illegal.
Yet another instance of an American assuming something bad about Europe that turns out to not be true. There’s a pattern here. It’s almost like the Americans are actually jealous of Europe.
Basically, because it is considered racially abusive. It’s a pretty weak law, in truth.
Yeah, murder is only made illegal because they are trying to hide… no, wait, what you just said is really stupid.
Depends which history books you read. There are certain holocaust myths, like the lampshades made from the skin of gassed Jews, which there is basically no evidence for. But that there were camps, where large numbers of people were forced to labour for the Nazis, and where they carried out experiments on people, and where they killed quite a lot of people - that’s all pretty well evidenced, inasmuch as anything during WW2 is well evidenced.
The Jewish lobby is powerful, and exploits the holocaust for political ends. That much is obvious. It doesn’t mean that they just made it all up.
No, it’s an example of a speech crime. You can think whatever you like about the holocaust, even in Germany. But if you go out waving your banner with swastikas on saying ‘no Jews died during WW2/the WTC attacks’ then you are voicing that thought.
I’m not saying I agree with the law, but most holocaust deniers focus solely on the Jewish angle, which presumably means their denial is motivated by racism.
What I want to know is why it is ‘the holocaust’, when other genocides were much larger and more horrible but don’t get described as such. A lot of people use the Nazi holocaust as the benchmark for evil, and then deny that anything else that has been done or is being done is equally bad. It does occupy a curious position in Western history and morality.