Postmodern relativism enables Holocaust denial in the public sphere.

Evidence

Deborah Lipstadt (1993) blames the proliferation in recent decades of attempts to deny that the Holocaust took place and the public attention they have generated on post-structuralist and postmodern scholarship. She argues that a “relativistic approach to the truth,” which she pins on Stanley Fish, has made it impossible to fix meanings and make critical judgments about the comparative value of texts, thereby destroying the value of rationality in deciding which statements can vie for legitimacy in the public sphere. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 259

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault’s Frankfurt School material on critiques of relativism and the fight over whose claims to reason count, and to existing anti-Lipstadt (denial) content. — connects to: Postmodernist premises applied to politics yield post-truth reality denial — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 292; Postmodern interpretive relativism, once applied to politics, licenses alternative facts — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 293
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 259