“You’re standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to commit a genocide.”
Utterly false. It’s called the “Weimar fallacy” and Margaret Brennan should know better than to engage in it.
Germany had plenty of hate speech codes. Indeed Hiltler was banned from speaking in parts of Germany for a number of years.
The censorship did nothing but make Hitler a martyr. Goebbels conducted a whole propaganda campaign on the back of it. “He alone of two billion people on Earth may not speak in Germany,” read the slogan.
Germany had no free speech and no rule of law — and millions died because of it.
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Utterly false. It’s called the “Weimar fallacy” and Margaret Brennan should know better than to engage in it.
Germany had plenty of hate speech codes. Indeed Hiltler was banned from speaking in parts of Germany for a number of years.
The censorship did nothing but make Hitler a martyr. Goebbels conducted a whole propaganda campaign on the back of it. “He alone of two billion people on Earth may not speak in Germany,” read the slogan.
Germany had no free speech and no rule of law — and millions died because of it.
x.com/mtracey/status…
Former ACLU President and @TheFIREorg Senior Fellow on the “Weimar fallacy.”
Nadine’s father was a Holocaust survivor.
Nadine’s father was a Holocaust survivor.
@TheFIREorg “In this 1920s cartoon by Philipp Rupprecht, Hitler is depicted as having his mouth sealed with tape that reads ‘forbidden to speak.’ The text beneath this image reads, ‘He alone of two billion people on Earth may not speak in Germany.’”
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