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Re:Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website by technics256 on Friday August 25, 2017 @04:43PM (#15102057)
As an american who lives in Germany, this couldn't be farther than the truth from anything that I have seen. I have seen much more racism and bigotry in my homeland than anything from the west to the former east. There exist bad elements in all societies; what I have seen is that German society as a whole has learned and tried to better themselves from the atrocities of their past - while it is unfortunately still strong in America.

My best friends come from the "neo nazi" working class hotbeds of Leipzig and Dresden. I have never ever seen anything like you mention, ever.

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Re:Germany, in a First, Shuts Down Left-Wing Extremist Website by ameister14 on Friday August 25, 2017 @04:47PM (#15102075)
Roughly the same percentage of people vote for Nazis in Germany as polls say would vote for white supremacists in the United States - a pretty small amount, though the similarity in percentages does call into question the effectiveness of limits on speech.
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