But would you dare state out loud in Germany that, in your opinion, the official number of Holocaust victims is actually much less than what's been widely reported? Even if you had what you believed was solid evidence supporting your argument? I bet you wouldn't.
> neither is, "Kick out all the <insert pejorative here>."
How about voicing your opinion that <people from some country> should be barred from emigrating to <European country> because <crime statistics>? Bet you wouldn't try that either, because your opinion is in "hate speech" territory now.
Ugh, what?
This isn't an opinion, it's incitement to a crime.
> Detention of Rümeysa Öztürk / Mahmoud Khalil
These clearly are for opinion, and are widely criticized as being vindictive and unconstitutional.
Not really an opinion but it can be a belief. I'm not sure why we are okay with people believing that Earth is ~6000 years old, but not with someone believing that we are in a simulation and everything before e.g. year 1999 is just a collective memory fabrication.
If you want to visit that idiotic Noah's Ark museum, go.
If you want to prohibit teaching about evolution in schools, go to hell.
Yes. You can believe this fact to be false but you might also be lying. How do you show this? By showing why you believe it to be false
People might not have gone to jail, but they did have voices and access to society limited or removed because of their opinions.
Can you give an example of someone in a modern democracy jailed for their "opinion"?
To wit, are the examples you're thinking of "statement of opinion", "statement of fact", "pejorative insult", or "incitement"?
Saying "I think <public figure> is an idiot" is an opinion. "The earth is flat" or "The holocaust never happened" are not opinions; neither is, "Kick out all the <insert pejorative here>."
And yeah, in North Korea you'll absolutely be jailed for expressing some opinions. That may make them illegal, but it doesn't make them no longer opinions.