#CzechRepublic criminalises criticising the #elites 😵
Starting on 1st January this year, you can go to prison in #Czechia if you incite "class hatred" or make #propaganda of "#communism / "#communist movement", as if it was the same as #nazi propaganda. This is effectively an indirect way to normalise #fascism... And to criminalise criticising the elites! And nobody's talking about this!!! european-left.org/czech-law-cr…
in reply to João Labrincha 🌈🍉🖤☭Ⓥ 💬En/Fr

Nobody's talking about this because it's not quite true. Nobody criminalises criticising the elites.
It criminalises those who "founds, supports, or promotes a Nazi, communist, or other movement which demonstrably aims to suppress human rights and freedoms, or incites racial, ethnic, national, religious or class hatred, or hatred against another group of persons". No metions about critisizing. Class hatred is not criticising.

In Czechia we had a communist regime in years 1948-1989. The communist party made nearly the same evil as nazis did. For example:
Just because of different political opinions they executed 248 people, imprisoned 205 000 people (8 000 died there), sent 20 000 people to work camps, and forced 22 000 people to work in technical auxiliary battalions.
Another 450 people trying to escape from the country was killed by our own border patrol.
This communist party used their power to completely forbid other parties, to suppress religion, to control TV, radio newspapers. They controlled who can or cannot study, publish books, or even sing based on people's political views...

The party who did all this is still operating here, proudly carrying the legacy of all this, honoring all the symbols, adoring soviet mass killers. That's the KSČM party who is now complaining about the new law, trying to shift the narrarative to "criticising the elites".

in reply to Štěpán Škorpil

@stepan with that reasoning, you should also forbid all capitalist propaganda, for all the people who died or were/are imprisoned under several capitalist dictatorships around the world. Communism is a liberation ideology, misused by authoritarians in several countries, as was the case of Czechia. We actually never had a communist regime anywhere in the world. Forbidding an ideology that is openly critical of the elites is the same thing as forbidding the critic itself, and a very dangerous step
in reply to Štěpán Škorpil

@stepan nazism was never a liberation ideology. It has always been based in nationalism, tribalism, hatred of everything that is different and foreign. An absolute opposite to communism. You write like someone who never read anything of both. Please make sure to study a bit about them before making such public declarations.
in reply to João Labrincha 🌈🍉🖤☭Ⓥ 💬En/Fr

You on the other hand speak like someone blinded with one ideology and ignoring many similar aspects with other ideologies. But in fact both leading to the same evil as I was trying to show you on our experience.
When I poke into your arguments you immediately start to throw arrogant personal attacks. I am ending it here as it is not discussion anymore, its becoming a fight.