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Unbiased, objective holocaust research is a human right
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Two Polish historians are facing trial because they simply did their work: doing research. Their research is basically a scientific examination of Polish behavior during WWII and the Holocaust.
The researchers are:
- Barbara Engelking: a historian at the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw.
- Jan Grabowski: a professor of history at the University of Ottawa.
In general, it is illegal to deny the Holocaust in many European countries, including Poland, Italy, Hungary, Czech, and many other countries. By 2018, it is illegal in Poland to accuse the Polish nation of crimes committed by Nazi Germany.
The main reasoning for those laws is that Holocaust denial is considered racist, anti-semitic and xenophobic. Of course this doesn't make any sense. So if someone can't believe the crimes that the Arabs did when they conquered the Roman Empire, does this imply that the person is racist for example?
Anybody should have the right to express their opinion about all the details related to Holocaust, as well as any other event in human history. We should differenciate between freedom of expression and hatred: it is totally fine to question history, it is not fine to express hate. Questioning history has nothing to do with hate!
What if some evidence appears at some point of time and changes all what we know about the Holocaust or WWII? In that case I think we should punish all those law-makers because they made researchers suffer from unjust punishments and they caused real harm to scientific research.
I myself don't buy the arguments that Holocaust deniers make, and I think their logic is just a piece of shit. However, they have the right to have their own logic, and to express their concerns and skepticism. We question the existence of god himself, but we can't question history? this is lame.
I am asking Andrzej Duda to stand against those law-makers who try to force people not to think, not to question, and not to criticize. While we understand that Poland was the biggest victim of Nazi crimes, we believe that Polish people themselves have the right to question this fact.
And please let the researchers do their work. To force such policies on scientists is a crime against humanity.
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Two Polish historians are facing trial because they simply did their work: doing research. Their research is basically a scientific examination of Polish behavior during WWII and the Holocaust.
The researchers are:
- Barbara Engelking: a historian at the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw.
- Jan Grabowski: a professor of history at the University of Ottawa.
In general, it is illegal to deny the Holocaust in many European countries, including Poland, Italy, Hungary, Czech, and many other countries. By 2018, it is illegal in Poland to accuse the Polish nation of crimes committed by Nazi Germany.
The main reasoning for those laws is that Holocaust denial is considered racist, anti-semitic and xenophobic. Of course this doesn't make any sense. So if someone can't believe the crimes that the Arabs did when they conquered the Roman Empire, does this imply that the person is racist for example?
Anybody should have the right to express their opinion about all the details related to Holocaust, as well as any other event in human history. We should differenciate between freedom of expression and hatred: it is totally fine to question history, it is not fine to express hate. Questioning history has nothing to do with hate!
What if some evidence appears at some point of time and changes all what we know about the Holocaust or WWII? In that case I think we should punish all those law-makers because they made researchers suffer from unjust punishments and they caused real harm to scientific research.
I myself don't buy the arguments that Holocaust deniers make, and I think their logic is just a piece of shit. However, they have the right to have their own logic, and to express their concerns and skepticism. We question the existence of god himself, but we can't question history? this is lame.
I am asking Andrzej Duda to stand against those law-makers who try to force people not to think, not to question, and not to criticize. While we understand that Poland was the biggest victim of Nazi crimes, we believe that Polish people themselves have the right to question this fact.
And please let the researchers do their work. To force such policies on scientists is a crime against humanity.
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