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Denial - the film

edited September 2016 in Deniosaurs

I have just read an interesting article regard a new film call "Denial"

no not climate change denial - but a film based  on the court case, fought in London's High Courts of Justice between the American historian and academic Deborah Lipstadt and the British historian David Irvine.

David Irvine was notorious for "denying" the Holocaust - Irvine sued Lipstadt when she called him out on his denial

David Irvine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Irving

The trial

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_v_Penguin_Books_Ltd

The article

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/03/david-hare-nothing-but-the-truth-about-a-holocaust-denial

this quote caught my eye

"As Lipstadt says in my screenplay, certain things are true. Elvis is dead. The icecaps are melting. And the Holocaust did happen. Millions of Jews went to their deaths in camps and open pits in a brutal genocide which was sanctioned and operated by the leaders of the Third Reich. There are some subjects about which two points of view are not equally valid. We are entering, in politics especially, a post-factual era in which it is apparently permissible for public figures to assert things without evidence, and then to justify their assertions by adding “Well, that’s my opinion” – as though that in itself was some kind of justification. It isn’t. And such charlatans need to learn it isn’t. Contemplating the Lipstadt/Irving trial may help them to that end."

Comments

  • Interesting.  Wiki uses a quote that's a spot on description of climate science contrarian tactics.

    In 1993, Free Press[7] published Professor Deborah Lipstadt's book Denying the Holocaust: the Growing Assault on Truth and Memory.[8] In it she described and condemned the phenomenon of Holocaust denial, and referred to David Irving as being a prominent holocaust denier. To illustrate using one of the passages referred to[9] in Irving's complaint:

    "Irving is one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial. Familiar with historical evidence, he bends it until it conforms with his ideological leanings and political agenda. A man who is convinced that Britain's great decline was accelerated by its decision to go to war with Germany, he is most facile at taking accurate information and shaping it to confirm his conclusions. A review of his recent book, Churchill's War, which appeared in New York Review of Books, accurately analyzed his practice of applying a double standard of evidence. He demands "absolute documentary proof" when it comes to proving the Germans guilty, but he relies on highly circumstantial evidence to condemn the Allies. This is an accurate description not only of Irving's tactics, but of those of deniers in general.[10]"

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_v_Penguin_Books_Ltd


  • yes I noticed that exact quote too CC

    Strikingly similar

    I have commented before on the "asymmetry" of evidence that deniers use



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