(July 17, 2015 at 6:19 pm)Rhythm Wrote: People use the example of Hitler often enough in this conversations, but Hitler didn't make any of that shit happen, no more so than nutball 1 above. It's a huge mistake to think that the will of the german people didn't -include- the holocaust and WW2. He wasn't -inciting- anything, he was holding up a mirror. It;s a mistake to think that the people who voice an opinion are the source -of- that opinion.
Well, that misses the mark by a thousand miles. Most of the German people were indifferent and much too concerned with their own survival and safety to care one way or the other. They weren't murderous but cowards, but I don't want to sound judgmental, since I don't know what I would do under the same circumstances.
The European laws actually differ very much when it comes to hate speech. Some more liberal, some more oppressive, as is shown with the case on hand.