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Holocaust denial (HD) is the activity of denying the occurrence of key events and processes which constitute the Holocaust. Should it be tolerated? HD brings into particularly sharp focus many difficult questions faced by defenders of content-neutral liberal principles protecting freedom of expression. I argue that there are insufficient grounds for the legal prohibition of HD, but that society has the right and the duty to expel and exclude deniers from the Academy.
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I would like to thank Gideon Calder, and audiences at the LSE Department of Government seminar, the LSE Department of Philosophy seminar in Philosophy and Public Policy, the University of Brighton Philosophy Society, and the Association for␣Legal and Social Philosophy annual conference (2005) at the University of Strathclyde for useful comments on this chapter. Thanks are also due to Charles Boundy and Tony Bruce at Routledge for legal advice, to Glen Newey for editorial guidance, and to Matt Pittori for discussion. Some material in this paper is drawn from my Toleration: A Critical Introduction (London: Routledge, 2005).
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Mckinnon, C. Should We Tolerate Holocaust Denial?. Res Publica 13, 9–28 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-006-9013-8
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-006-9013-8