Posted on 04/02/2024 10:33:43 AM PDT by Reverend Wright
Poland’s new government is moving to limit freedom of speech and actively penalize so-called hate speech, a move that has been associated with stifling dissent and limiting opposition to issues surrounding mass immigration, religion, and LGBT issues in other European countries.
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Deputy Minister Śmiszek announced this week legislative changes to introduce criminal responsibility for what his party considers hate speech against homosexuals.
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"The time has come to ban disgusting, homophobic, discriminatory statements in the public sphere,” declared Śmiszek, who is openly homosexual.
Meanwhile, the European Parliament is calling on EU leaders to include incitement to hatred and hate crimes in the catalog of transnational crimes, which include terrorism or human trafficking.
(Excerpt) Read more at rmx.news ...
Yep....and suddenly, the fascism begins - first with ‘free speech’. Next will be immigration and dissent not allowed.
We’ll see how the people react.
“”Poland’s new government is moving to limit freedom of speech and actively penalize so-called hate speech, a move that has been associated with stifling dissent and limiting opposition to issues surrounding mass immigration, religion, and LGBT issues in other European countries.””
Let me take a wild guess here... and bet that the GGs (Government Goons) that get to decide which speech qualifies as “hate” speech will just naturally and automatically exempt any speech that happens to demonize Jews and Christians as “hate”. How conveeenient.
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