Europeans have keener awareness of vulnerability of liberal democracy than Americans do. In living memory, democracy East & West subverted
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by well organized fascist & communist states-within-the-state.
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When Europeans ban Nazi insignia and Nazi marches, they do so not out of disgust, but to defend their state & society.
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Ditto when they ban Holocaust denial. The last architects of the Holocaust, remember, remained alive just months ago.
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@jeetheer comes the complex part: when Europeans refuse to allow a violent minority to impose its religious creed on the majority4 replies 3 retweets 3 likes
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@davidfrum "Violent" is the salient word: not speech per se but incitement & acts of violence have to be quashed.
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