(06-06-2024, 08:14 AM)Karl12 Wrote: Also thought this was a pretty powerful quote:
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This is funny because "it didn't start with the gas chambers" meme is mostly used by the opponents of the so-called hate speech. The political correctness and the censorship in the name of tolerance are justified with the appeals to the examples of genocides and holocausts in history and the discriminatory hateful rhetoric which gave rise to them.
Let's not forget that the Nazis were initially the opposition exploiting the weak democracy. Hitler wrote his Mein Kampf in prison. Did he have a right to free speech too? There are numerous examples in history where verbal aggression preceded or accompanied discrimination, physical violence against or actual extermination of various ethnic groups or whole nations.
The society's oversensitivity and the rise of special snowflakes might as well stem from the collective PTSD.
