Word: denialism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Klein's "What Daddy Couldn't Say" [Dec. 4]: There appears to be an elephant in the living room of the Bush household. When Daddy can't discuss Iraq with his son because the son is in denial and Daddy doesn't want the son to feel grief, that's grave dysfunction. The only solution is intervention, by the son's immediate family and our elected representatives. Please, Daddy Bush, have that talk with your son. MARIANNE ELLIS Sacramento, Calif...
...pure conservatism that must be pursued at all costs. Emboldened by this presumptive omniscience, the author and Pinochet extend themselves into the arrogant defense of inhuman action to further their personal philosophies. This is the greatest sin of dictators and tyrants, because this simple construct allows for the denial of the rights and humanity of those who stand between the ruler and the achievement of his goal. Whether the despot must murder 3,000 or 11 million to achieve his ends, he will do as he sees fit, because anything is possible once the opponent has been dehumanized and debilitated...
Richard's statement is much more subdued than the forceful denial made by another leading candidate for Harvard’s top job, University of Pennsylvanian President Amy Gutmann...
...course, I am sickened by Holocaust denial. But it causes the same revulsion for me as a person who believes in justice for the Palestinians, for whom Israel's emergence meant displacement and dispossession. Those who deny or diminish the Holocaust aren't only callously negating the lived experience of the Jews of Europe; they are also negating what has been - despite the distance at which it occurred - a defining episode of 20th century Arab history. Trying to negate the Holocaust stokes blind hatred on both sides of the divide, and reinforces the most hard-line positions. That may suit...
...hard to understand the attraction of Holocaust denial among many Arab intellectuals. After all, the Palestinians ultimately paid a heavy price as the international community sought to redress the unspeakable horrors inflicted on the Jews of Europe. The 1947 U.N. partition plan allocated 55% of Palestine to a Jewish state and 45% to an Arab state, with Jerusalem to be kept under international control. The Arabs of Palestine and its neighboring states rejected the plan, focusing on its implications for their own people rather than on the horrors visited on the Jews by Europeans, and they went...