Holocaust uniqueness arguments strengthen rather than weaken Holocaust denial

Evidence

Ironically, it would seem as if arguments for the uniqueness of the Holocaust and for its pre-eminent claim on the category of genocide enhance the rhetorical value of Holocaust denials. If the Holocaust is construed as the prototype for genocide, and genocide provides a model for the violence of racialization, interest on the part of white supremacist and other racist organizations in promoting efforts to deny the reality of the Holocaust makes excellent discursive and political sense. If the Shoah can be erased and its representations discredited, then the violence of racialization in general can be more successfully denied, and blame-the-victim rhetorics can be promoted with even greater success. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 273

Categorization

• QUESTION: Testable discursive claim worth chasing: do uniqueness advocates themselves bear measurable rhetorical responsibility for denial?
• SEED: Possible angle: how the very logic of uniqueness militarizes the historical record and hands denial a strategic lever.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 273