Editing Historical negationism (section)

===Relativization and trivialization===
{{see also|Holocaust trivialization}}
Comparing certain historical atrocities to other crimes is the practice of relativization, interpretation by moral judgements, to alter public perception of the first historical atrocity. Although such comparisons often occur in negationist history, their pronouncement is not usually part of revisionist intentions upon the historical facts, but an opinion of [[moral judgement]].
* The Holocaust and [[Nazism]]: The historian [[Deborah Lipstadt]] says that the concept of "comparable Allied wrongs", such as the [[expulsion of Germans after World War II]] from [[Lebensraum|Nazi-colonized lands]] and the formal [[Allied war crimes during World War II|Allied war crimes]], is at the centre of, and is a continually repeated theme of, contemporary [[Holocaust denial]], and that such relativization presents "immoral equivalencies".<ref>Barry Loberfeld, [http://abcdunlimited.com/ideas/denying.html "Denying the Other Holocausts"]: Professor Lipstadt's Own Assault on Truth and Memory, [[Liberty (1987)|Liberty]], May 2002</ref>
* Some proponents of the [[Lost Cause of the Confederacy]] use certain historical examples of non-[[chattel slavery]] in discussions on the role of the slave system of the South, however insofar as it is to further this ideological point it obscures and downplays the specificities of the American slave system- both its place in history, and comparison to other such systems overall. For example, court decisions and statutes mandated multi-generational slavery unlike many other slave systems, and further beyond that stated that a freedman could never become a citizen of the United States. These measures, related to perpetuation and racist characterization besides further restrictions on life even outside slavery in support of it distinguished the system compared to all, or an overwhelming amount of historical systems
* Connected to the Lost Cause of the Confederacy is the [[Irish slaves myth]], a pseudo-historical narrative which conflates the experiences of [[Irish indentured servants]] and [[Atlantic slave trade|enslaved Africans]] in the [[Americas]]. This distortion, which was historically promoted by [[Irish nationalism|Irish nationalists]] such as [[John Mitchel]], has in the modern-day been promoted by [[White supremacy|white supremacists]] in the United States to negate the mistreatment experienced by [[African Americans]] (such as [[Racism in the United States|racism]] and [[Racial segregation in the United States|segregation]]), also opposing [[Slavery in the United States|slavery]] [[Reparations for slavery in the United States|reparations]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Linehan|first=Hugh|title=Sinn Féin not allowing facts derail good 'Irish slaves' yarn|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/sinn-f%C3%A9in-not-allowing-facts-derail-good-irish-slaves-yarn-1.2644397|access-date=30 March 2021|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Kennedy|first1=Liam|title=Unhappy the Land: The Most Oppressed People Ever, the Irish?|title-link=Unhappy the Land: The Most Oppressed People Ever, the Irish?|date=2015|publisher=Irish Academic Press|isbn=9781785370472|location=Dublin|page=19|language=en}}</ref>