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What is actually harm, though?
You have classified it as basically physically doing something (lynching someone, for e.g.).
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If Zundel speaks at a rally and says to the attendees, "go kill the Jews", and then there's attacks against Jewish people as a direct result, he's guilty of inciting violence and should be punished. If he publishes a book denying the Holocaust, but no crimes occur as a direct result, I'm really not seeing what he's done wrong (other than holding a really stupid belief, of course, but there's nothing illegal about that).
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Is it harm, if you as a memeber of one of the identified groups, are hearing "you are an inferior race" or "the holocaust never occurred because it is a conspiracy by jewish people" or whatever actually is said...?
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I've heard for years that my eternal soul will burn in the fires of Hell because I'm a heathen non-believer rather than a good Christian. I don't think I've been "harmed" by the people who express those views, and indeed, I will defend their right to state their beliefs. So instead of claiming that I was a victim somehow, I just tell those people that I disagree with them, which is the correct response when someone takes such an absurd and indefensible position as to claim that the Holocaust never happened.
Zundel has the right to publish his garbage. The rest of us have the right to tell him he's full of ****. That's the beauty of freedom of speech.