In the last year, there was this whole gamergate thing going on and the worst thing about gamergate is not what happened, but how discussion was made during it. It was mainly done by using twitter and 140 symbols is just not enough to have a discussion. Another thing is people being being forcefully set on one side or the other, with people who wanted to talk with both getting shit on (the people I follow where mainly shit on by the feminist side, with sentences like:"What you say their arguments have merit? You must support everything they do then! Burn him!", but that´s probably just a perspective thing).
Another thing is that it really stifled the pursuit of real minorities to get out of being oppressed.
Recently, when there was war again between Israel and the Palestine, there was a discussion going on in my country. A lot of Muslims where going on the street protesting against the brutality Israel was using. Now as a German you were not allowed to say anything, you couldn´t say that Israel is being too brutal, because then you would hate on jews and are a nazi. And you were not allowed to say that the Palestine should have stopped bombarding Israel if they didn´t want to be attacked, because you would hate on Muslims and are a Nazi. 0
In our Media it was portrayed very interestingly, because they simply said that antisemitism within Germany is on the rise. I would really like to know how the numbers are created though. We have 3 political parties that are far right and due to our laws we cannot forbid them. Not a single one of them hates on jews (neither openly nor secretly). They hate on foreigners being in Germany, that´s why they are classified as far right.
I´m pretty confident that the rise in antisemitism is in fact not within the entire German population, but more within certain groups (muslims). But since you are not allowed to talk about this, discussion on this topic is being stifled.
To endanger free speech and open discussion in favor of political correctness is in my opinion wrong. And before somebody says, "you can still speak about it on the internet", who listen to ramblings of some internet person.
I´ve seen today the following:
Matching this with pictures of Hitler was very sobering to me. (and yes, all of these are real postings where man was replaced with jew)
Another thing is that it really stifled the pursuit of real minorities to get out of being oppressed.
Recently, when there was war again between Israel and the Palestine, there was a discussion going on in my country. A lot of Muslims where going on the street protesting against the brutality Israel was using. Now as a German you were not allowed to say anything, you couldn´t say that Israel is being too brutal, because then you would hate on jews and are a nazi. And you were not allowed to say that the Palestine should have stopped bombarding Israel if they didn´t want to be attacked, because you would hate on Muslims and are a Nazi. 0
In our Media it was portrayed very interestingly, because they simply said that antisemitism within Germany is on the rise. I would really like to know how the numbers are created though. We have 3 political parties that are far right and due to our laws we cannot forbid them. Not a single one of them hates on jews (neither openly nor secretly). They hate on foreigners being in Germany, that´s why they are classified as far right.
I´m pretty confident that the rise in antisemitism is in fact not within the entire German population, but more within certain groups (muslims). But since you are not allowed to talk about this, discussion on this topic is being stifled.
To endanger free speech and open discussion in favor of political correctness is in my opinion wrong. And before somebody says, "you can still speak about it on the internet", who listen to ramblings of some internet person.
I´ve seen today the following:
Matching this with pictures of Hitler was very sobering to me. (and yes, all of these are real postings where man was replaced with jew)