> 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?
>>
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