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Germany's Obsession With Defending Israel and Criminalizing Speech Aided AfD's Rise (open.substack.com)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Free speech gave the USA Trump.

I rather like that in Germany it's a crime to deny the Holocaust. The problem is that our politicians are too cowardly to stand up towards Israel and to stupid to realize the problem with the Holocaust isn't that jews were the main target, but rather that it happened at all.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

exactly, free speech fundamentalism just allows freedom to abuse anyone and lie about anything

what's happening in germany is the same playbook as in the US. use wedge issues like immigration, palestine and economic hardship to split the left and support the far right in social media spam

at least in germany you can vote constructively for a variety of parties that can create a government that effectively excludes the far right