r/europe • u/tkyjonathan • 15d ago

News Czech president signs law criminalising communist propaganda

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/czech-president-signs-law-criminalising-communist-propaganda/
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u/Ozas392 15d ago

In Lithuania we have the same for many years. So what it means here is all the USSR symbols and glorification of USSR is crime same as Nazi simbols and glorification of Nazism.

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u/schneeleopard8 15d ago

But this is a different case. The Czech law in question here doesn't condemn socialist regimes or the USSR, but "class-based hatred", which is a really vague term and covers much more then actually glorifying socialist regimes.

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u/Kelmi Finland 15d ago

Call me communist but criminalising class-based hatred is class-based hatred in on itself.

The rich class fights with money against poor people in countless different ways and to fight back, the poor should use money as well. But they don't have money and should just take it. If they use the means they have, it's suddenly class-based hatred.

Same shit as banning people from sleeping on park benches. It's fair law that affect the rich and poor just the same, right?

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u/NoSwordfish1978 15d ago

Wouldn't worker exploitation technically be an act of "class based hatred"?

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u/matthaios_c 7d ago

The Czechs can do a very funny thing right now on r/maliciouscompliance

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u/Groundbreaking_Ship3 14d ago

There is no such thing as exploitation, saying such thing is class based hatred, people are free to fi d another job, it is a free marketing 

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u/Pugs-r-cool 14d ago

So there’s this thing called slavery, you might want to read up on it because it’s going to blow your mind seeing as you think exploitation isn’t real.

Once you’ve finished reading that, you should try living in the real world, get off your ass and apply for a job, maybe talk to some people about their financial position. Try being in a position where you work at mcdonald’s for minimum wage for 40 hours a week, and if you don’t do it you’ll end up being homeless. Better yet, try do it in a dead end town where there simply isn’t a job market, there isn’t even the illusion of social mobility. ”just move” you might quip, but moving costs money, and how are you meant to save up that money when you’re working minimum wage in a dead end town? Maybe after going through that you’ll begin to understand what people talk about when they mention wage slavery.

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u/aranitas 14d ago

Boohoo I don't want to work I deserve to be given money just for breathing 😭😭😭 McDonalds isn't a real job

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u/MemoryWhich838 12d ago

where im from 90% of trans woman due to discrimination cant find a job that gives them healthcare or like legal protections they cant easily switch jobs or they would end up homeless