Negativeism (denying the Latin Negro) is to deny or minimize generally accepted historical events. Fans or so-called negationists often go out of facts and study history in such a way that they look at whether something really did happen like the history books tell this. They often often speak of revisionism, throwing a new light on an old case with modern methods that could not be controlled at the time.
A well-known example of negativism is the denial of the Holocaust, which has been explicitly punished in various countries. For example, in Belgium the so-called negationism law applies. The Armenian genocide is also largely denied by many pan-Turkish organizations.
Opponents of negation laws say that punishing a selection of opinions, however false they may, violate the right to free speech.
In the Netherlands, the proposal of the law of the member of the Windmill to criminal offense in denial is grossly trivialized, approved or justified by genocide (criminal negationism). Also see
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