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[Kurtofan]

I am done with this. You don´t pick and choose who´s allowed to free speech and who´s not.

Yet many European countries (who suffered the most from Nazism) banned the most obvious of Nazi parties from the political scene (unfortunately they didn't extend this ban to fascism in general or don't want to extend it for political or ideological reasons )

Can you tell the millions who died because of Nazis being allowed to participate in German elections that it's wrong to ban Fascism from politics?

 

[poisonelf]

Yet many European countries (who suffered the most from Nazism) banned the most obvious of Nazi parties from the political scene (unfortunately they didn't extend this ban to fascism in general or don't want to extend it for political or ideological reasons )

Can you tell the millions who died because of Nazis being allowed to participate in German elections that it's wrong to ban Fascism from politics?

Once more, GD is not officially a Nazi party. People keep on thinking they publicly announce their love for Hitler and ~10% of Greeks cheer them on. See my previous post on what they officially stand for, and why those who voted for them did so (except for the 0.3% that was their actual support pre-TROIKA).

They're not even a 'fascist' party (again, officially). Their official and public positions include supporting parliamentary democracy, using lawful conduct, etc.

Now, most people realize that their older members are in fact neo-Nazis, and that they're as democratic as and non-violent as, I don't know, Genghis Khan was.

But how do you propose they be 'banned' when they are a democratically elected party? What would the system that "bans fascism" work like? Who would judge, and based on what? Where would that system's power to ban political parties stop?