Do you know how words work? I’m engaged in an argument on Notes where I’m being told I should educate myself on the rise of Nazism and that the Nazis introduced censorship in reply to my contestation that free speech allowed Mein Kampf to be published which was the genesis of the Holocaust. I’m endlessly being told that the Nazis used censorship. How does that disprove that Mein Kampf was an expression of free speech. Or that it led to the Holocaust (with preludes in German academia and literature). The opponents of Nazism used their free speech to oppose Hitler’s rise. They failed. Free speech is not a panacea to fascism. In fact it is necessary for its rise. The fact that fascists then limit free speech means nothing here except that they recognise that ideas good and evil are dangerous. PS stop telling me free speech is good when Russian genocide in Ukraine is justified in the West under the guise of free speech.