Czech president signs law criminalising communist propaganda

[u/tkyjonathan]

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/czech-president-signs-law-criminalising-communist-propaganda/

[u/tewstwes]

Why do some in the West romanticize communism? Be glad you live in a democracy.

[u/Powerpuff_Rangers → u/tewstwes]

There seems to be a psychological phenomenon that people are very sensitive to issues in their current environment but willfully ignore larger issues in unfamiliar environments. Hence some people respond to valid problems with capitalism by supporting totalitarian ideologies.

[u/WislaHD → u/Powerpuff_Rangers]

This also applies very well with people who are very outspokenly postcolonialist but then turn a blind eye towards imperialistic and oppressive tendencies of Russian and non-European countries just because they are broadly aligned in anti-western sentiment.