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Re: EU aims to criminalise Holocaust denial

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Originally Posted by Malvolio View Post
I got no no problem with banning public incitement “to violence or hatred".
That sounds like a pretty sticky place for the government to go though.

How does one objectively prove whether or not someone was purposefully trying to incite "hatred"? When does condemning someone as bad or wrong become "inciting hatred" against them? How can a speaker be held responsible for the emotions of the people listening to him?
And what about calls for military intervention in Darfur. That's a call for violence isn't it?

What if I stand up and say "Those damn, damn Nazi's under Hitler! How I hate them! Any sane person would hate them and what they did. I'm glad we crushed their facist army and if any more Nazi's like that rise up, we should crush their armies again!"
That's pretty blatent incitement of hatred and violence. Do I go to prison for that?
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