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They're gesturing at the argument that was famously made in the 2016 movie Denial. In that, a Holocaust denier has filed a defamation lawsuit against a Jewish
by Natsu 5y ago
They're gesturing at the argument that was famously made in the 2016 movie Denial.
In that, a Holocaust denier has filed a defamation lawsuit against a Jewish professor. Under UK law, she bears the burden of proof.
When they later confront the denier, they point out that he makes many historical mistakes and every single one of them favors the Nazis and/or Hitler. They then compare this to a rigged coin. If he were being honest and doing history wrong, then some of his mistakes should've gone either way, but the fact that his mistakes are substantially in one direction shows evidence of bias.
Denial is a great film, I recommend it.
- r00fus 5y agoThanks for the background. Fascinating analogy that YouTube is allegedly equivalent to a holocaust denier by removing streams in a biased manner.
- Natsu 5y agoIt's funny because I was discussing this just the other day wishing there was a better way to address that fact pattern--a history of biased decisions--without dragging irrelevant and inflammatory stuff into the mix. Sadly, nobody in that discussion could quite find a good way to reference it without the inflammatory bits at the time.