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2017 | 8 | 141-182

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How Useful is the Concept of Post-Truth in Analysing Genocide Denial?: Analysis of Online Comments on the Jedwabne Massacre

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The choice of “post-truth” as the OED’s 2016 word of the year spawned a large number of academic and popular texts. Some authors considered genocide denial to be an example of post-truth rhetoric. This study analysed the emerging literature on the subject and identified the notion of “indifference to truth” as a key defining characteristic that was distinct from neighbouring concepts. User comments to four online Newsweek Polska articles concerning the 1941 Jedwabne massacre of Jews were then scrutinized through the conceptual lens of indifference to truth. As a result, five types of post-truth rhetoric were constructed, identifying, tentatively, new forms of online genocide denial: (i) Explicit Indifference, (ii) Unsubstantiated Fabrication, (iii) Unconcerned Contradiction, (iv) Political Instrumentalization, and (v) Gratuitous Perversion.
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Wybór "postprawdy” jako słowa roku 2016 słownika oksfordzkiego spowodował powstanie dużej liczby tekstów akademickich i popularnych. Niektórzy autorzy uważali zaprzeczanie ludobójstwu za przykład retoryki postprawdy. W tym badaniu przeanalizowano powstającą literaturę na ten temat i określono pojęcie "obojętności do prawdy”, jako kluczową cechę definiującą, która różni się od sąsiednich pojęć. Komentarze użytkowników do czterech internetowych artykułów „Newsweeka Polski” dotyczących masakry Żydów w Jedwabnem w 1941 r. zostały następnie przeanalizowane z perspektywy pojęciowej obojętności do prawdy. W rezultacie skonstruowano pięć typów retoryki postprawdy, identyfikując, wstępnie, nowe formy zaprzeczania ludobójstwu online: (i) wyrazista obojętność, (ii) bezpodstawne zmyślenie, (iii) beztroska sprzeczność, (iv) instrumentalizacja polityczna, oraz (v) nieuzasadniona przewrotność.

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141-182

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