REVISIONISMO HISTÓRICO Y RACISMO EN LA JURISPRUDENCIA CONSTITUCIONAL: LOS LÍMITES DE LA LIBERTAD DE EXPRESIÓN (A PROPÓSITO DE LA STC 235/2007)

• Published in: Revista de derecho político 2008-09 (73), p.103-146
• Main Author: Liern, Göran Rollnert
• Format: Article
• Language: eng ; spa
• Subjects: Constitutional law; Dignidad; dignity; European history; Freedom of speech; freedom of thought; historical revisionism; Libertad de expresión; Libertad ideológica; Racism; Racismo; Revisionismo histórico; Revisions
• ISSN: 0211-979X; 2174-5625
• DOI: 10.5944/rdp.73.2008.9261

After noting the contradiction that exists in constitutional case-law that while accepting historical revisionism with the limitation of respecting dignity, at the same time recognizes the greatest extent of the freedom of thought, analyses Constitutional Judgement 235/2007 which declares the denial of genocide as a crime to be unconstitutional, but considers the penalization of the justification of genocide to be constitutional. This sentence has partially clarified the status of historical revisionism and, in general, the dissemination of ideas contrary to the Constitution, but the contradiction still remains; nevertheless, it has furnished elements such as the distinction between ideas and activities, and broadening the scope of the freedom of speech by connecting it to the freedom of thought that allows the defence of an interpretation of the constitutional case-law that considers the freedoms of speech and thought for expressions adverse to the Constitution to be protected, since the dignity and the rights of others are violated by offensive assertions, or violent or discriminatory activities or behaviour but not by the mere expression of ideas. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]