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Arts & Humanities > History (Other) What is genocide denial?: 2 of 4

Denial can come in many forms, and for many reasons. The most common form of denial is out of ignorance, that is you deny something because you do not have the information required to believe it. There is also the denial of convenience, if a piece of knowledge proves inconvenient to hold, it will often be denied its truth value. The most sinister though least common is of course the conspirators denial. Often times we deny the existence of a genocide out of ignorance. The truth is that the world at large is tremendously ill informed about the genocides that have occurred, let alone those t...
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