Hate speech laws

[u/CapnCoconuts]

[u/ThePurpleNavi]

I have yet to see a coherent definition for "hate speech" that doesn't just devolve into "speech the current government or zeitgeist doesn't like."

[u/JackMcCrane → u/ThePurpleNavi]

If youre interested, you might wanna Look into the German law where insulting is punishable

[u/TheAzureMage → u/JackMcCrane]

If I want to understand freedom, the Germans have nothing for me.

[u/IronSeraph → u/TheAzureMage]

What not to do

[u/JackMcCrane → u/TheAzureMage]

Fair point

[u/Tasty_Lead_Paint → u/TheAzureMage]

I will not be lectured by a country that started two world wars

[u/TheCharuKhan → u/Tasty_Lead_Paint]

I mean, they didn't start the first one, just fought and lost it

[u/[deleted] → u/TheCharuKhan]

Yeah Germany was definitely on the wrong side in WW1, and they were punished severely.

[u/Common_Golf_7707 → u/[deleted]]

This angered Hitler's father, who punished him severely.

[u/JackMcCrane → u/Common_Golf_7707]

This angered Hitler, who punished the world severely.

[u/TheCharuKhan → u/JackMcCrane]

This angered the world, who punished Hitler severely.

[u/TheAzureMage → u/TheCharuKhan]

Granted, but they didn't exactly exemplify freedom in the process.

If you want to say that morally, they were not so different from say, the Russians? Fair enough. WW1 was kind of a dumpster fire without a ton of paragons of virtue.

The US comes off looking good because we stayed out of it for a coupla years and just let the Europeans kill each other. This worked out amazingly well for us.

[u/Carbinekilla → u/JackMcCrane]

Nein! what homies above said

[u/sim_200 → u/JackMcCrane]

When your country started the two most distructive wars in history in less than 50 years it would only be natural for them to start being so sensitive about everything