EUBanana wrote:
nero wrote:
Your claim that lack freedom freedom of speech in the Weimar Republic allowed Nazis to get the power is absurd.
My claim, which is obvious truth, is that it didn't prevent it.
True.
EUBanana wrote:
This is the argument made by a great many, probably the majority, of those who want to limit free speech, 'to save us from (mostly imaginary) Nazis'.
This is patently untrue. The anti-hate speech laws are to criminalize hate-speech; come it from left, right or from any source. Of course if you have contrary evidence, show us.
EUBanana wrote:
And those tools were used by Hitler to persecute his enemies. Sure, he would've persecuted them with or without them in the end but the legal mechanisms were already there for his use.
Nah, that is an absurd and ignorant proposition. To think that anti-hate speech laws would have been used to ban political parties is ludicrous.
I have to assume that you not familiar with the
Enabling Act of 1933 which opened the road to dictatorship
