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The Europeans appear to be driving towards criminalizing the denial of the Jewish and Rwandan holocausts.  At the same time they seek to avoid mentioned the Stalinist purges and the Armenians under the Turks.  

This demonstrates 2 very problematic aspects.

1- who decides what you are allowed to deny and what you are not allowed to deny ?  Thus in the future if an ethnic group falls out of favor speech about their maltreatment can be criminalized or at least highly disincentivised.  What’s that sound like ?  Nazi Germany. 

   ….. appears like they will institutionalize fighting the LAST war while the new one ends up killing new victims not mentioned in the law they propose.  This is proven by the ability of political consensus to prevent the Armenians being mentioned.

2- Free speech is free speech.  You either have it or you don’t.  If you don’t you slide over quite close to the edge of dictatorship.  Your government maybe perfectly just and kind today.  But in short order you’ll get old and die. You won’t be around to maintain the status quo.  In the future your country could incite reprehensible acts.

    ….. a good example is Germany. Today they are all cuddly and socialist.  But Nazi stood for NATIONAL SOCIALIST and it happened in Germany.   My close relatives are all very nice american germans.  Hearts as big as cars.  How can this be?

The Europeans are way socialist and I chuckle because their thinking is just a linearly extrapolated version of American liberals.  They just can’t shoot straight.  By trying to legislate acceptable thoughts and speech they insure that the sociopaths will have more power and leverage should they find their way to power.

Do not mistake this for minimizing the deaths throughout history including the jewish holocaust.  I’m such an independent thinker I wonder if I’m actually the same species of human as some of the folks throughout history.  I don’t have any compelling need to fit in and go with the crowd.

Want to help prevent the next holocaust?  Work very very hard and learn yourself and why you feel the compulsion to go with the crowd.  Always question your actions.  Get in touch with your humanity.  Its you who understand these words that must work together to restrain those who do not.  This does not always mean war and it does not always mean peace.  It may hurt when you think but everyday requires to be analyzed anew.

This article is all the more important when you consider that repeatedly American liberals proclaim we should emulate European socialists.  Not a good idea.

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