I think the strongest case against Mel Gibson (based on the evidence below) is (as David suggested) that Mel Gibson’s phrasing was ambiguous and that he knows better, having been exposed to actual Holocaust denial. Since this is still circumstantial evidence, though, I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt so far. There’s nothing I strictly speaking disagree with in what he said, and to the extent he’s trying to place the Holocaust in the context of other large atrocities (including other victims of World War II and victims of Stalinist terror), I don’t mind, as I’m not into the moral uniqueness of the Holocaust. I was going to go into greater detail about this, but I think Clayton Cramer has already put it well in his last paragraph.
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