In reference to disgraced British Historian David Irving, when someone is punished socially and/or legally for asking a question about or attempting to debate a commonly accepted historical action/event.
Person 1: “Hey, can you come bail me out of jail?”
Person 2: “Bail you out of Jail?!”
Person 1: “Yeah, I wrote my term paper on why I thought the French Revolution and subsequent Red Terror were Bad, and my professor turned the paper in to the police for hate speech. I got totally Irving-ed!”