![]() ![]() ![]() Then, when the early Internet came around in the decades following that shift, she says, its echo chamber effect enabled those who were convinced by the deniers to find a community of others who cited the same sources. ![]() “ if I said to you that I believe that the Earth is flat or I believe the Civil War never happened, I could say ‘that’s my opinion’ and you would end the conversation very quickly,” Lipstadt explains. In that environment, Holocaust deniers-or at least the brand of them that features in Denial-were able to make new inroads in portraying that denial as a legitimate opinion. Lipstadt attributes part of the shift toward academia to the rise of deconstructionism-which she calls the idea “that you can look at a document and interpret it in any way you wish.” Though the school of thought has many aspects to recommend it, she says, it made academics more open to the idea that anything could be seen from two sides. ![]()
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