Sunday, 23 February 2025

How free speech in Germany is disappearing

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Anything which "insults" you. Or hurty words. Or nasty tweets. Or sarcastic memes.Or something which a politician doesn't like.  All these are now punishable in Germany. By stiff fine or jail time. 

Many on the right have commented on how exulted the 60 Minutes interviewer seems to be. Looks like she just loves what the Germans do to muzzle those horrid "far right" folks. Oh, how I wish we could do that here in the United States, she's thinking....

Germany is now the land of "you have free speech, but...". What Salman Rushdie has called the "but brigade". Free speech, but... is not free speech. 

Their idea of "democracy" in Germany is that you have elections to elect the proper people. Nice lefties. But if the electorate vote in "far right" parties like the AfD, then you have to annul the election. As they recently did in Romania for the same reason. Democracy is for me, but not for thee. Free Speech is for me, but not for thee. That's the concept of Democracy on the Left, there in Germany and in the United States of the Left. And why they lost their minds over the recent speech by JD Vance, to the Munich Security Conference, criticising Europe for losing some of the values shared on the West, like Free Speech. They didn't like that, not one little bit. 

Warren Smith maker of the video above, is an ex teacher, who was forced out of his school for discussing free speech issues with a student, specifically quizzing the student on views of J.K. Rowling. 

Added: "JD Vance is right. Europe has abandoned Western Values"