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RE: Count Dankula Freed - Fined £800

in #news7 years ago (edited)

OK - i'm here again to educate it seems.

The guy was an idiot, and deserves the fine. He was using hate speech - "Gas the Jews" is a direct and crass reference to the Holocaust, in which 6 million were murdered. Its not something you make light of, and if you need a reminder of the human cost I suggest reading the final pages of Vassily Grossman's excellent 'Life and Fate'. In a harrowing passage he describes the final moments in a gas chamber, when a mother is holding her child close, as Zyklon B pours over them. This was a reality for 6 million, and is not something you make light of to a dog, or for a few likes on Youtube.

If you want to joke about it, then do it with your meathead friends behind closed doors. Once you put that on social media, you own it, and you have to stand by what you say. 'For the laughs' doesnt really cut it in this case. Its chumpish ignorance on display here, not malice, but why should such gross ignorance be tolerated?

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Yes, we know what it was in reference to. No, it was not a good time for the Jewish community. I need no education on the horrors perpetrated, I am quite aware of what happened.

If you accept there should be free speech, you cannot be selective who gets to use the privilege.

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