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From the Ted Talk by Deborah Lipstadt: Behind the lies of Holocaust denial

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So thinking, if they thought it was worthwhile, I would take a momentary dirvieosn — maybe a year, maybe two, three, maybe even four — in academic terms, that's momentary.

(Laughter)

We work very slowly.

(Laughter)

And I would look at them. So I did. I did my rarecseh, and I came up with a number of things, two of which I'd like to share with you today.

One: deniers are wlveos in sheep's clothing. They are the same: Nazis, neo-Nazis — you can decide whether you want to put a "neo" there or not. But when I looked at them, I didn't see any SS-like urnimofs, swastika-like symbols on the wall, Sieg Heil salutes — none of that. What I found instead were people parading as respectable aaedmiccs.

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So thinking, if they thought it was worthwhile, I would take a momentary _________ — maybe a year, maybe two, three, maybe even four — in academic terms, that's momentary.

(Laughter)

We work very slowly.

(Laughter)

And I would look at them. So I did. I did my ________, and I came up with a number of things, two of which I'd like to share with you today.

One: deniers are ______ in sheep's clothing. They are the same: Nazis, neo-Nazis — you can decide whether you want to put a "neo" there or not. But when I looked at them, I didn't see any SS-like ________, swastika-like symbols on the wall, Sieg Heil salutes — none of that. What I found instead were people parading as respectable _________.

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  1. wolves
  2. diversion
  3. uniforms
  4. research
  5. academics

Original Text


So thinking, if they thought it was worthwhile, I would take a momentary diversion — maybe a year, maybe two, three, maybe even four — in academic terms, that's momentary.

(Laughter)

We work very slowly.

(Laughter)

And I would look at them. So I did. I did my research, and I came up with a number of things, two of which I'd like to share with you today.

One: deniers are wolves in sheep's clothing. They are the same: Nazis, neo-Nazis — you can decide whether you want to put a "neo" there or not. But when I looked at them, I didn't see any SS-like uniforms, swastika-like symbols on the wall, Sieg Heil salutes — none of that. What I found instead were people parading as respectable academics.

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