It makes you wonder what it is about the holocaust that makes people so emotionally committed to it that they'd be as angry at somebody who said six million Jews weren't exterminated as they would at somebody who fondled their four year old in a public restroom.
Now somebody who says the Vikings discovered North America before Columbus, or maybe one of those Flat Earth people--those people are as sick and twisted as pedophiles. But I think deniers are more akin to serial killers--you know, what with they way we murder the memory of the victims by saying they weren't murdered....
Of course, you are giving less than half the story, aren't you?
Or are you trying to say with a straight face that denial is not tied up with anti-semitism?
There have been, of course, revisions of the death toll in the Holocaust (e.g., Hilberg's 5.1 million Jewish victims) and, to take just one more example of real revisionism, the decision-making for the European-wide program of extermination has been argued over (timing, mechanisms, etc.) - and the work that led to these challenges to earlier historiography was taken as serious historical work, not as something like criminal activity. Because the revisions were based on sound methodology, work with sources, and all the other normal ways history is done. You know that, but write about something else.
And deniers, wrapped up in anti-semitism, often mocking the victims, and many of whom come across as apologists for war crimes and mass murder, well, yes, they are seen by and large as anti-semitic apologists for mass murder, in a special pariah category all their own, to be frank. Because their work is worse than shoddy, it is dishonest - and because they are the ones driven by an agenda.
You can whine and complain all you want, but until you guys do serious history and not some version of "I am not really interested in tracking down Jews who don't wish to be found - so long as they aren't beneath the sandy soil of Treblinka I have no further interest in their welfare, beyond a confidence that their fate has been happy" or "Once all the homogeneous races have been mongrelized into one brown mass and dummed down to the level of the African Negro the Jews will finally be able to control the world. Unfortunately for them this will never happen and Aryan scientists will eventually be able to catalogue the Jew as an extinct species" or "Why are Jews such lying scumbags? maybe one of the jewish posters here can explain why their tribe is so given to making up this kind of crap? Is it just for money, revenge, or is there some kind of pleasure in deceit in and for itself that the jews experience when they lie?" or "How much longer can this shameless creature continue to defend Jewish evil in the world whilst pretending to be a 100% assimilated atheist?" or "The final order for this type of disrespect for a fallen hero of Rudolf Hess’s rank can only have come from the top in Germany. Angela Merkel, is a treacherous red whore and I welcome the rapidly approaching Day of The Rope for all of her kind" or, commenting on the shooting of US Representative Giffords in Arizona, "A Jewish Congresswoman who would not vote to protect Arizona from illegal immigrants, a judge with political aspirations who had allowed a patriotic rancher to be sued by a Mexican organisation for daring to impede illegal’s crossing and destroying land on his ranch, and a child whose mind had already been completely poisoned by her liberal parents. Those people are no loss to any wholesome, principled society."
To see what drives the response to "revisionists," all you need to do is read recent comments on this very board about "an ethnic group, well known for pushing the envelop" or LGR's dishonesty with sources (to take just one example, a day or two ago misquoting Longerich intentionally). Put together mendacity and anti-semitism, throw in a bit of nostalgia for the Third Reich - and, really, you have trouble understanding the negative reaction to what denial offers?
