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Originally Posted by rayxi
The cartoon is misleading. The law doesn't prohibit the denial of the holocaust. The law prohibits the promotion of hate, which unfortunately usually goes along with the denial of the holocaust.
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Actually, that is not true. In many European countries, including Denmark, you can go to prison for saying that the holocaust did not happen.
Here are a couple of examples:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n1331724.shtml
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v19/v19n2p58_Swiss.html
While I obviously believe that these people are misguided and what they say is total BS, I do not think they should go to prison.