Scotish man convicted for "offensive speech"

[Dill]

(04-03-2018, 08:00 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Jesus have a little pride.  Hint: they’re not going to become your besties now.

Edit:So we can’t comment rightly or wrongly on authoritarianism because slavery?  Talking about Putin is amnesia if we don’t include the Indians?

Easy Mike. Some Europeans are already my "besties."

Your inferences are splaying wildly here. 

Europeans may comment, rightly or wrongly, on our current authoritarian leader, even if they have had some in the past. And my post was explaining why.  

If we want to talk generally about a supposed European tendency to authoritarianism to deflect criticism of Trump, a tendency supposed absent in us freedom-loving Americans, then yes, there is a great deal of amnesia in that, which may be challenged by mention of slavery and segregation, along with addressing the specifics of Trump's behavior and values.

None of this authorizes an inference that one cannot criticize Putin's takeover of Russian News media without mentioning the Trail of Tears. 

It is because of slavery, along with all those European authoritarian regimes, that we ought to be looking closely at the problem of authoritarianism, understanding what it is before dismissing it, but certainly speaking out against it--and even if "we did it too."