»Free Speech« v »Political Correctness«

With his warning, Europe was risking a retreat from the most fundamental values shared with the United States of America by enacting ever more restrictive “Hate Speech” Regulation, US Vice-President JD Vance pointed to a fundamental lack of compatibility between European and US. Free Speech law and philosophy. Legislators in Canada and Australia, both countries closely related to American legal history followed their own approach by choosing Civil Law- Anti Discrimination acts to ban extreme expressions of Hate Speech. But the ensuing passionate legislative discussions there are not much different in substance from the US-European controversies. It is obvious, that this development is linked to demographic changes and continued migration.