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(NON)POLITICAL TABOO: WHY DEMOCRACIES BAN HOLOCAUST DENIAL

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Steuer M.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2017
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vol. 49
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issue 6
673 – 693
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This article unpacks the controversy that surrounds criminal law restrictions on Holocaust denial in democracies. By applying insights from postmodernist and post-structuralist theories on amendments of criminal legislation in three Central European democracies, the author aims to understand the interplay between politics and truth in introducing legal bans on Holocaust denial. Through a comparative analysis of parliamentary discourse, he demonstrates that the various justifications in favour of such bans all postulate that truth should be separated from politics. In turn, this effort to transform the Holocaust into a taboo outside of politics has consequences on the nature of its remembrance.
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