<p>“How does not agreeing with the mainstream historical interpretation equate to hate?”</p>
<p>What if people in prominent positions began to say that blacks were never slaves, or that the Europeans never landraped the Indians? Think of the consequences.</p>
<p>It’s one thing to disagree why Napoleon didn’t leave Russia sooner, but it’s another thing to claim that a genocide that defined an entire people, an entire era, never happened (or, “temper” your views and call it greatly exaggerated). The scary thing is that at one point, Irving was a respected historian whose works were widely-read (and this is the difference between him and people who deny the moon landing). What if David Duke started writing carefully-worded college coursebooks? In these types of cases, I support censorship.</p>