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I've never met someone unaware of the Tianamen square massacre. I did, however, meet a foreign exchange student from China who supposedly had her Chinese Facebook account deleted after she posted something about the government of China. I'm not sure if that's true, partially because I haven't found out ifFacebook even has a branch in China.

However, I have met a female Turk who denied the Armenian Genocide. She told me that if I varied my sources, and looked at not just the Armenians' side of the story, but the Turks' side, I would see that it's not true. I then tried to tell her that one of my sources, (from the perspective of the United States, not Armenia,) said that during the first World War, even a few officials that were members of the Central Powers, (among them a German officer whose name I forget,) acknowledged that it happened. After that, she resorted to willfully ignorant, "I can't hear you," behavior.

DOVEBLOB wrote:

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...And of course, there are still people who deny the Holocaust happened.

The best are those, such as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who try to marginalize the event not by denying it, but by saying the Holocaust happened, but that the death toll estimates are exaggerated. Some say things like that only several hundred thousand or so non-Aryan Europeans were massacred. Yeah, "only," in the thousands. No big deal. 6,000,000 Jews and several million other Europeans, that's a big deal. But if it's only several hundred thousand, who really cares?

Then again, another question is, which country's policy of handling the denial of genocide is worse, Germany's, or Turkey's? Although I am infutiated by Turkey's denial of the Armenian Genocide, I think Germany's practice of prosecuting those who deny the Holocaust is even worse. Make pains to spread the news that they're wrong, but don't violate their freedom of speech.