Practice question · Multiple choice
On what grounds does the discipline hold that Holocaust denial is wrong rather than merely differently emplotted?
Hints
- Interpretive latitude operates over something. What?
- Denial does not reshape the record, it collides with it.
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C. It is refuted by evidence: records, sites, demography
Why
Denial is not a rival interpretation; it is a claim that dies on contact with the transport records, the construction orders, the demographic accounting, and the perpetrators’ own paperwork. Latitude sits on an evidentiary floor, and the floor is real.
Practise Postmodernism and the Linguistic Turn
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