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Why in western democratic countries Zionism is not banned like Nazism? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Seriously, what Israel is doing today is no different from what the Nazis did before and at the beginning of World War II, extreme nationalism, illegal expansion, annexation of foreign territory claiming it historically belongs to them, propaganda using the latest technology, terrorizing neighbors, military at the center of society.

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[+] -7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Because we have freedom of speech so ideas can compete with each other on their own merits, as they should, rather than ideas being forced upon people on the barrel of a gun.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Oh yeah, just like an individual citizen or a large multinational corporation can both donate to a party or hire a lobbyist.

    ... people like you don't understand scale and proportion. Ideas don't win based on merit, they win based on mass funded propaganda and ubiquity.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    So competing based on the barrel of a gun is better? You do have a point, that the majority's beliefs affect more a random person's beliefs if the random person is irrational than the merit of an idea, but surely enforcing the ideas of a minority - or even a majority - is even worse?

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