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Originally Posted by Chief
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.
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I'm aware that loony socialists are willing to blame everything on 'environmental conditions', but the fact is that poverty and unemployment do not cause people to suddenly hate Jews, Gypsies and gays. Being poor does not cause people to want to stuff other people into ovens and burn them. People are responsible for their own beliefs and actions, and to legitimise Nazism by saying that is the inevitable product of unhappy people is to admit that you haven't been paying attention.