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[–]Alienhunter糞大名 9 insightful - 8 fun9 insightful - 7 fun10 insightful - 8 fun -  (1 child)

This must be why the Germans lack a sense of humor.

[–]jet199 13 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I was going to say that.

Indeed most regimes which have lead to genocide have been known for being humourless.

Yet laws are basically being written on the basis that this is fact, joking leads to othering leads to genocide.

Where's the evidence for this?

The real joke is these hate crime/speech laws were first pushed by soviet states as a way of suppressing decent.

The thing meant to stop oppression and mass murder is actually a tool to enable it.

https://www.hoover.org/research/sordid-origin-hate-speech-laws