Innocent denials of known genocides: a further contribution to a psychology of denial of genocide

This article is an effort to study and analyse innocent denials, which has been little recognised. Together with previous essays on the psychology of more explicit malevolent denials of genocide, the intention is to generate a broader psychological theory of denials of genocide and revisionism by proposing that there are also a variety of “innocent denials” of the factual reality or significance of known cases of genocide, and a variety of “innocent disavowals of violence” which in truth celebrate the violence.