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Historical negationism is a legitimate form of historical revisionism.

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Is it true that historical negationism is a legitimate form of historical revisionism?

No. Historical negationism is defined as the falsification or denial of history and is distinct from legitimate historical revisionism, which re-examines history using new evidence.

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Wikipedia: Historical negationism
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Wikipedia: Historical negationism. (n.d.). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_negationism

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Wikipedia: Historical revisionism
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Wikipedia: Historical revisionism. (n.d.). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_revisionism

Wikibooks: Wikibooks: The Holocaust/Holocaust denial
It notes that negationism distorts history, whereas legitimate revisionism uses new evidence.
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Wikibooks: Wikibooks: The Holocaust/Holocaust denial. (n.d.). Wikibooks. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Holocaust/Holocaust_denial

Wikipedia: Wikipedia: Revisionist history
Negationism involves distortion in drastic disagreement with the historical record.
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Wikipedia: Wikipedia: Revisionist history. (n.d.). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionist_history

Wikipedia: Wikipedia: Revisionism
Negationism's methodologies have no basis in the profession of history.
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Wikipedia: Wikipedia: Revisionism. (n.d.). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionism

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