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German authorities raid prominent author’s home over criticizing Israel’s Netanyahu (www.middleeastmonitor.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by timewarp@lemmy.world to c/germany@feddit.org

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My dear German brothers & sisters. The politicians you keep electing are headed backwards through history. They keep acting more... totalitarian. Just as Trump got re-elected in the US, you are making the same mistakes. Many in the party claimed to be fighting fascism while seeking their own version.

I wish we could have learned sooner, and you didn't have to go down this road. The politicians used your people like puppets — insisting you must hate & fear your opponents & neighbors — saying, "if you don't vote for us, you may never get to vote again!"

They demanded you ignore their corruption & said they're morally pure. They argued, "we're more educated & intellectually superior — we have better ideas", while defending genocide.

Many of you pointed fingers. You called those expressing legitimate concerns the problem. You convinced yourselves that those merely questioning were traitors.

Instead of demanding accountability & change from within, you attacked viciously. Now as you lose seats & your party briefly pretends they knew it was a genocide all along, will you let them get away with it? Will you let them keep guilt-tripping you for something you didn't do. Will you keep supporting what they're doing now?

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[–] Triumph@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s not how 1A works.

In most places in the US, private employers are allowed to terminate for any or no reason, with very few exceptions, those being the protected classes carved out by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and sometimes slightly expanded by state law.

I’m not saying it’s right, just that protected political speech and the choices of private employers are wholly disconnected things.

[–] PKscope@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm aware, I'm not saying they aren't within their rights (legally speaking) to do it, just that it's morally fucked up and is something that basically never happened before the social media nightmare of the last decade or so.

1A isn't a shield from social consequence, but when those consequences are happening because the government is actively vilifying certain speech, I feel like that is something we should be highly concerned about.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, yeah, the government is violating 1A all the time right now.

It still remains important not to conflate protected speech (that being the kind which the governent ought not be curbing) with private business actions.

[–] PKscope@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

You're correct. I should have been more clear.