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A comment on Poll: Only 18 Percent of Germans Feel Free to Voice Views in Public (2019). Parent comment

Re:Poll: Only 18 Percent of Germans Feel Free to Voice Views... by grumple on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @08:03AM (#27514047)
When gossip, public shaming, and excommunication are commonplace, what's said in private matters a lot.

Heresy - questioning the orthodoxy of today's doctrines - carries a high punishment these days.

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Re:Poll: Only 18 Percent of Germans Feel Free to Voice Views... by boredprograming on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @08:18AM (#27514185)
They used to hang people for heresy, and they still do in some countries. I think "people will be upset with me" is pretty mild viewed in a historical lens
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