De Smet and the racist ideology of revisionism

François de Smet, the vice president of the Brussels-based Movement against racism, anti-semitism and xenophobia (MRAX), asserts that revisionism is one of the worst forms of racism. "A genocide is a massacre unlike any other because it is the product of a deliberately planned policy to exterminate a people, and is therefore always based on a xenophobic ideology. One cannot fight racism without a constant reminder of what it leads to in its terminal phase: the physical annihilation of the other because he is the other. This is why revisionism amounts to a legitimate restriction on freedom of expression: by allowing someone, in the future, to freely accept or deny the existence of the genocide of the Jews, Tutsis and Armenians inevitably helps justify, indirectly, the ideology that allowed these massacres to occur."

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