White House press secretary Sean Spicer points to a reporter to take a question during the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington on Monday. Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt (who prevailed in a court case in England against a Holocaust denier) has a term for this tactic:The de-Judaization of the Holocaust, as exemplified by the White House statement, is what I term softcore Holocaust denial. Softcore denial also includes Holocaust minimization, as when someone suggests it was not so bad. “Why are we hearing about that again?” What we saw from the White House was classic softcore denial. White House spokesman Sean Spicer promised reporters to always be truthful in his role as White House press secretary and addressed misstatements he made about Metro ridership on Inauguration Day.

Source: Washington Post January 31, 2017 14:15 UTC