Far right German activist Ursula Haverbeck, who spent decades fighting the government over free speech issues related to history, died Wednesday at the age of 96, the Associated Press reports.
Haverbeck, who was jailed multiple times for having outspoken opinions on whether the Holocaust actually happened, was out on appeal and facing a 16 month term for again having been convicted of just asking questions over the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. It would have been Haverbeck’s fourth time in the joint in 20 years had she lived to go inside for the latest sentence.
And yeah, she was a fucking Holocaust denier and the above was some good old fashioned mainstream media-style normie-washing of MAGA psychopathy. The AP didn’t do that here, but their headline “Ursula Haverbeck, German far-right activist repeatedly convicted for Holocaust denial, dies at 96” is slightly weird and definitely longer than it needs to be. Yes, “Holocaust denial” is right there, and while we do appreciate them linking her to the “far right,” what was wrong with simply writing “German Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck dies at 96”? Is this like some sort of politically correct construct akin to how saying “He’s autistic” is verboten and you have to say “He has autism” instead, like you can’t define a person for certain attributes about who they are?