04-03-2018, 10:13 PM
(04-03-2018, 06:20 PM)Dill Wrote: Some of them had some bad experiences when they DIDN'T repress hate speech.
Really bad in fact.
So the memory lingers.
Attributing nazism to people allowing hateful rhetoric to go unchallenged is a gross simplification of what actually happend. It's almost lying.
Opposition to Nazis wasn't uncommon in Germany. People wrote, did speeches against, and even fought them in the streets.
The only time you could argue that there was silence was when Hitler sly dogged his way into a dictatorship and forced people to be silent under the threat of reparisal. And to be honest, I can't fault people for zipping their lips for their own self preseversation.
