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Originally Posted by Skybird
Don't throw out the baby with the bath water. Germany still is one of the most liberal, free countries in the world, and the level of freedoms and the display of tolerance for almost everything even reaches hilarious, sometimes suicidal levels (although manipulative media and EU legislations slowly change that. But that effects England and all of Europe as well).
But there was a time in the past when that was different, and that in recognition of that time and responsibility the careless, easyminded use of according symbols gets forbidden, is understandable. The crimes committed under the Swastika emblem were not of peanut sizes, you know.
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No one better to know that than someone who lives in England. The country, particularly London, was bombed by the Nazis almost daily, if not daily....
Yet dispite that, you dont see them outlawing the Swastika, or any other Nazi deplicting media.....