So I guess what you’re trying to say is that he didn’t intend for the word “denialist” to conjure up images of the Holocaust in the minds of readers.
That’s it.
Generalizing from the inside of my head, I think “denialist” has a stench from “Holocaust denialist”—it implies refusal to accept a true, important, and morally obligatory mainstream belief.
Perhaps such a word should be tabooed in a rationalist forum.
However, precisely because “denialist” became commonly used for such purposes as “global warming denialist”, the connection to the Holocaust got weakened.
That’s it.
Generalizing from the inside of my head, I think “denialist” has a stench from “Holocaust denialist”—it implies refusal to accept a true, important, and morally obligatory mainstream belief.
Perhaps such a word should be tabooed in a rationalist forum.
However, precisely because “denialist” became commonly used for such purposes as “global warming denialist”, the connection to the Holocaust got weakened.