> Or do you simply hope fascist ideas don't take hold? Free speech exists to protect speech when fascists take hold. It's why no matter who is president of the

> Or do you simply hope fascist ideas don't take hold? Free speech exists to protect speech when fascists take hold. It's why no matter who is president of the US, we can spew all the hate we want. Unlike in germany where speech is dependent on who is in charge. If fascists take over and then decide anti-fascist speech is hate speech, then germans are screwed. Whereas in america, if fascists take over, they are screwed because we have free speech in america. > The former is a scary slippery slope but Germany doesn't have a great track record with the latter. Germany doesn't have a good track record because they always had "hate speech" laws. Hitler was able to censor everything because the german government always had the the power to censor "hate speech". Hitler would never had been able to do what he did if the german government didn't have powers to shut down all political parties and censor all "hate speech". Imagine if we had a culture of censorship in the US and hate speech was banned. Then trump become president and his government decides anything critical of trump is hate speech.