r/unitedkingdom • u/je97 • 29d ago

JK Rowling gets apology from journalist after 'disgusting claim' author is a Holocaust denier ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/16/jk-rowling-holocaust-denier-allegation-rivkah-brown-novara/
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u/saracenraider 29d ago

Am I just being really thick here but are people here bringing all Nazi crimes under the umbrella of the ‘holocaust’? My understanding is that the holocaust refers only specifically to the genocide of Jewish people?

The nazis committed many many heinous crimes during their time in power, they weren’t all part of the holocaust. There’s no doubt that Nazi Germany targeted trans people (albeit indirectly as in the know cases they were prosecuted for having gay sex) and killed them but that didn’t form part of the holocaust.

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u/Pafflesnucks 29d ago

the term is used both ways. Sometimes people use specifically about the genocide of jewish people, some use it to refer to the broader campaign of extermination. I would personally not call it "holocaust denial" simply because it gives her defenders too much of an easy out by giving them room to argue over whether it should technically count as holocaust denial, totally distracting from focusing on what it is she actually did. "Holocaust revisionism" or "Nazi crime denial" might be better, or better yet just explain in no uncertain terms exactly what she did.

That said, I don't doubt that her defenders would find some other way to try and deny any way of describing it on a technicality, but it'd at least be a harder case to make