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Originally Posted by Lazonby
I'd just like to add that the areas in the world in which there have been genocides in the last 60 years have also been the areas in which there are no such laws against denying past occurences of genocide. Coincidence or not?
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As someone already said, National Socialism and what followed was a result of the conditions, not the laws that existed. Why is neo-Nazism so damn popular in East Germany? Is it because they don't have laws there outlawing it? Of course they do, just like the rest of Germany. It is popular there because of the conditions, the unemployment, the education system, etc. If the conditions of post-WWI were repeated do you really think these laws would do anything? Guns and bombs would simply replace words. These laws don't prevent anything, and as I already said, it's a slippery slope. The US model of free speech, in my opinion, is the most fair and just.