Q&A: In the Wake of the Holocaust
In the Wake of the Holocaust
Question
When you think about the rise of Nazism and everything that happened as a result, do you still believe in the absoluteness of freedom of speech? I mean, how can you look at everything that happened and say that people have the right to speak and express whatever views they want? After all, before the Nazis came to power they still didn’t explicitly state the Final Solution, and there was also less incitement to violence, but rather more antisemitic propaganda and various race theories. All the violent incitement and the extermination plans only began once they came to power.
Answer
I didn’t understand the question.
Discussion on Answer
Absolutely. And I still support it.
Breakfast, too, was one of the factors in the rise of Nazism. If people didn’t eat, there would have been no Nazism.
Not to mention construction technologies and technology in general. Without technology there would have been no extermination.
And unlike the breakfast analogy, sometimes censoring expression only strengthens it and turns it into something sacred. It could be that Nazism would have risen even faster.
Indeed. See Trump, who is a reaction to the violent censorship of political correctness.
And the conservatism that has become so popular in Israel (especially among religious people), which is a reaction to progressivism.
Don’t you think that one of the factors in the rise of Nazism was the extreme freedom of expression that you support?