[lbo-talk] Holocaust and denial

[Bryan Atinsky]

It seems to me that the reason you don't hear evolution denier so much 
is because there is a "positive" term for the large majority of people 
who disbelieve in evolution: creationists or intelligent design proponents.

Or there are no spherical earth deniers...they are flat-earthers, etc.

But what "positive" (replacement) term would be used for Holocaust 
denier...?

Michael Smith wrote:
>  
> As a former linguist, I'm interested in this recent 
> phenomenon of denial/denier constructions. So far I've 
> only seen two things you can be a "denier" of: the 
> Holocaust and climate change. Does anybody say "relativity 
> denier" or "evolution denier" or "red shift denier"? Can 
> you? Or does the "denier" construction require some specially 
> privileged component of our system of beliefs? If so, which 
> components are specially privileged in that way, and why? 
>