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In the German newspapers I read it was reported that the statements in question were actual calls for violence, not merely hate speech (I guess "kill all xyz" v
by facepalm 10y ago
In the German newspapers I read it was reported that the statements in question were actual calls for violence, not merely hate speech (I guess "kill all xyz" vs "xyz are evil").
So the police statement is rather misleading. To be sure, some official institutions have been involved in questionable campaigns against "hate speech" recently, so perhaps they wanted to show that they are making progress. It seems likely to me that the raid was actually about real illegal activities, rather than hateful opinions.
I think even in the US calling for somebodies death is not really protected by "free speech"?
Nevertheless it is worrying that official institutions lent their name to the questionable campaign against hate speech. (Questionable because it was initiated by several people with a track record of hate speech, and because it seems to be designed to simply silence unwelcome opinions, as hate speech is not clearly defined by the campaigners).