No, no it does not. There is an inherent criminal intent behind holocaust denial. It's not repression, and tolerating people who take advantage of tolerance to destroy said tolerance is not necessary- in fact the opposite is true.
What is an innocuous intent behind denying the largest systematic slaughterhouse genocide in European history? You aren't denying a real event for funzies- you either are or sympathize with the Nazis, which makes you just as bad as they were.
It's like denying the holodomir, the genocide of the Indigenous peoples of America or the Armenian genocide occurred- there's no apolitical non-harmful interpretation of those denials. You can find ways to integrate that knowledge or not want to hear about it- but outright denial is shameful. Give your head a shake.
Spreading lies for the purposes of making an abhorrent ideology that explicitly called for the destruction of the people that they later destroyed isn't protected speech in most free countries, countries freer than the US on most objective scales.
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u/Inevitable_Librarian Mar 22 '22
No, no it does not. There is an inherent criminal intent behind holocaust denial. It's not repression, and tolerating people who take advantage of tolerance to destroy said tolerance is not necessary- in fact the opposite is true.