Historical negationism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

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Historical negationism


00:01:34 1 Origin of the term
00:02:09 2 Purposes
00:02:51 2.1 Ideological influence
00:04:21 2.2 Political influence
00:05:15 3 Techniques of negationism
00:08:06 3.1 Deception
00:09:06 3.2 Denial
00:09:47 3.3 Relativization and trivialization
00:10:43 4 Examples
00:10:52 4.1 Book burning
00:11:21 4.1.1 Chinese book burning
00:12:14 4.1.2 Nazi book burning
00:14:16 4.2 United States history
00:14:25 4.2.1 Confederate revisionism
00:16:20 4.3 War crimes
00:16:28 4.3.1 Japanese war crimes
00:18:10 4.3.2 Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings
00:19:01 4.3.3 Serbian war crimes in the Yugoslav wars
00:21:19 4.3.4 Turkey and the Armenian Genocide
00:23:20 4.4 Soviet history
00:25:34 4.5 Azerbaijan
00:27:49 4.6 North Korea
00:30:39 4.7 Holocaust denial
00:32:31 4.8 China: denial of Tiananmen Square Massacre
00:34:08 4.9 In textbooks
00:34:17 4.9.1 Former Yugoslavia
00:38:32 4.9.2 Japan
00:40:01 4.9.3 Pakistan
00:40:46 4.9.4 South Korea
00:43:45 4.9.5 Turkey
00:47:39 4.10 French law recognising colonialism's positive value
00:48:38 4.11 Martial Law Negationism in the Philippines
00:49:15 5 Ramifications and judicature
00:49:47 5.1 International law
00:52:30 5.2 Domestic law
00:54:01 6 Negationism in fiction
00:55:46 7 See also
00:56:24 7.1 Cases of denialism



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- Socrates



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Historical negationism or denialism is an illegitimate distortion of the historical record. It is often imprecisely or intentionally incorrectly referred to as historical revisionism, but that term also denotes a legitimate academic pursuit of re-interpretation of the historical record and questioning the accepted views.In attempting to revise the past, illegitimate historical revisionism may use techniques inadmissible in proper historical discourse, such as presenting known forged documents as genuine; inventing ingenious but implausible reasons for distrusting genuine documents; attributing conclusions to books and sources that report the opposite; manipulating statistical series to support the given point of view; and deliberately mis-translating texts (in languages other than the revisionist's).Some countries, such as Germany, have criminalised the negationist revision of certain historical events, while others take a more cautious position for various reasons, such as protection of free speech; still others mandate negationist views.
Notable examples of negationism include Holocaust denial, Armenian Genocide denial, Japanese war crime denial and the denial of Soviet crimes such as the Holodomor, invasion of Poland, the Katyn massacre, and the forced deporations of Poles, Romanians/Moldovans, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Tatars etc. 
In literature, the consequences of historical negationism have been imaginatively depicted in some works of fiction, such as Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. In modern times, negationism may spread via new media, such as the Internet.