It just goes to show: You can cargo cult ban anything with a swastika on it, but if you can't change the culture, the Naziism remains in the hearts of your government officials.
And remember that it was the refusal of major Weimar parties to allow any discussion of aggressive reform and relief measures that lead to the rise of German Nazi and Communist parties in the 1930s. It's all self-inflicted wounds from the fundamentally illiberal ruling intellectual and bureaucratic class of the country.
And when the next downturn with a murderous evil dictatorship moves in, which country is ready to prevent you from even discussing it? That country is just asking for it to happen again.
Is hardly out of context with the article being commented on.
"You don't get rid of history by blacklisting people from viewing it, you don't convince people that Nazis are bad by, literally, stooping to their level and censoring (okay, I went there). And, as this leak clearly proves, it doesn't work anyways."
It is a follow up to a position taken in the article.
It is slightly heavy handed maybe, but the idea that a society through fear of its own past may create the tools that allows for a repeat of the very thing it is trying to avoid, is clearly a reasonable concern.
The fact that we happen to be discussing Germany, doesn't suddenly stop you from being allowed to make historical comparisons.
You know, as much as I hate seeing discussions diverging into unrelated issues involving Nazis, Jews, religion, or other such topics, I hate the invocation of a stupid Internet meme even more.
Yes, we should always remember what happened, because it represents an anti-pattern for what society should be like and oh look - censorship as been used by the communists and the nazis for "protecting the youth" and the German law supporting this was born after the war, therefore guess what - an argument involving the nazis, even if flawed, is on-topic and people shouldn't fear expressing their opinions because of some stupid Internet meme.
And remember that it was the refusal of major Weimar parties to allow any discussion of aggressive reform and relief measures that lead to the rise of German Nazi and Communist parties in the 1930s. It's all self-inflicted wounds from the fundamentally illiberal ruling intellectual and bureaucratic class of the country.
And when the next downturn with a murderous evil dictatorship moves in, which country is ready to prevent you from even discussing it? That country is just asking for it to happen again.