Kudos to Vance and he is spot on here. Europe should be aligning with Western values if we’re going to be supporting them with U.S. tax dollars.
Free Speech
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Kudos to Vance and he is spot on here. Europe should be aligning with Western values if we’re going to be supporting them with U.S. tax dollars.
I'd like to know what was actually said by this EU official. Smells like bullshit to me.
I'm as near a free speech absolutist as you can reasonably be, but I don't understand why our military alliances/foreign policy should be affected by other nation's commitment to that principle.
Germany, for example, has outlawed Nazi speech that would never fly here:
Germany’s Laws on Antisemitic Hate Speech and Holocaust Denial
A look at Germany's changing laws on hate speech and Holocaust denial, in light of the FRONTLINE documentary "Germany's Neo-Nazis & the Far Right."
www.pbs.org
Should we distance ourselves from them because of this? I don't think so, even though I would fight to defend a person's right in the US to say those things without govt. censorship, even if I despise and vehemently disagree with the substance.
On other issues/values, though, I think it's worth questioning how much aid we should give to foreign governments that oppress their own people (see the Middle East, South America, etc.).
Here’s the dystopian letter from the EU official.
And here’s a UK official talking about extraditing citizens of other countries for mean tweets.
Europe is a beautiful museum. Not much else.
The comments to the EU official's posting of his letter are priceless.
My favorite so far:
