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Describing someone as a "denialist" is a demonization, it is designed to connect the person to absurd Holocaust "deniers".


The point is definitely that it's demonizing.

However, I don't think "denialist" is always referencing holocaust denial... that connection didn't occur to me until you mentioned it. I could only think of "climate change denialist" which may be a reference to holocaust denialism, but that's once removed already.




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