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> It doesn’t make the war about freedom of speech, it makes the war about resisting invasion (for Britain). Yah, but fighting to resist invasion also means fig
by mlyle 5y ago
> It doesn’t make the war about freedom of speech, it makes the war about resisting invasion (for Britain).
Yah, but fighting to resist invasion also means fighting to preserve values and legal protections.
[which may not have been the best in the world then, or interpreted as we'd interpret those values now, but still were better than the alternative].
- jackvalentine 5y agoYes, values and legal protections which didn’t include freedom of speech.
- tsimionescu 5y ago> Yah, but fighting to resist invasion also means fighting to preserve values and legal protections. An invasion is the same whether you are being invaded by people who believe in free speech or by people who don't. WWII was in no way about free speech. Germany was invading other countries not to impose their values and compelled speech, but to create "living space" and take their resources for the "German people". People war opposing this because they didn't want to be killed, nor did they want to serve the "German people" nor did they want their resources to belong to Germany. Nothing much would have changed in the opposition to German occupation if Germany had been a democracy with equality for all and deep protection for free speech, but still hell bent on conquering and controlling all of Europe.