Elon Musk

[Pat Mustard]

Criticism and denigration are two very different things. Racists like to think they’re the same, though.

Boru

Edit: Inextricably linked to free speech is freedom of the press. The UK is rated 23rd in the world, while the US clocks in at 55th place. Cool, huh?

I think that even hate speech should be allowed, for the simple fact that countering it is punching at air if it's stifled. Drive it underground, no one takes it seriously, and now we have AfD in Germany.

I like knowing who are the bigots, and think taking them on is useful.

The AfD came about because the Soviets wove the Nazis into the East German state, largely through membership of the Stasi. That left the far-right ample space to fester in the eastern parts of Germany, as long as they paid as much lip service to communism as the Politburo did.

There is a reason why the AfD are an exclusively East German phenomenon. There was no real reckoning over the Nazi period in the East.