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Originally Posted by Dezzy
What, do you think Tila Tequila making a dumbass statement will lead to people going 'hey, this messy bimbo is right! HEIL HITLER'. No, people were rightfully reviled by her comments. It ain't a slippery slope because people can actually think for themselves and can mostly tell the difference between right and wrong.
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No, I don't think so, but the fact that she's a random bimbo doesn't mean her statements are something to skip, after all one doesn't need to be a genius to pull a trigger of a gun.
The german people in the 30's thought too that they can "think for themselves and know right from wrong", and yet the holocaust happened and most of them joined and helped.
But one of the awful things is that the others saw it, knew all about it and yet they didn't speak, didn't raise their voice - not before it started and not during the holocaust.
They didn't think they're capable to create such a monster, they're after all educated and intelligent nation.
Hitler and the Nazi party spread hate and used the democracy and freedom of speech to ignite it amongst the german people - nobody stopped it, it was just "that adolf guy talking about the jews running our economy like pigs and well it makes sense, they are everywhere, let's listen more".
Look for example at Dylan Roff, the guy from the massacre in the black community's church in USA.
He wrote a long and very detailed hateful manifesto way before the shooting, but at that time he didn't shoot anybody. Just words. Just Ideas. Just 20 something years old american guy. Just some virtual text on a website floating in the internet. Should he be arrested?
And yet, these ideas were formed in his mind, because he read stuff, and he heard someone else saying things like that, and hey here's another one who thinks like him. All freedom of speech.
This tiny unconscious hate became bigger and bigger and solid and solid and it exploded cause no one was there to open an eye and shut a mouth.
It takes one lunatic's finger to squeeze a trigger, but we're all responsible for it from happening.
That's what happens in America every now and then, that what has happened first in germany and spreaded all over Europe.
We should never take it on the chin when we hear something like this, you can never know which mad psychopath is listening.
It's naive thinking it can't happen again, it happened once, it can happen twice (especially being apathetic about it).
That's why there's incitement and there's freedom of speech - it's all words, different meanings.
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.