Dissenting opinions are not “hate speech”

Freedom of expression goes a long way – further than many believe and further than many would like. As the Federal Constitutional Court explains, it ensures that "everyone can freely say what he thinks, even if he does not give or cannot give any verifiable reasons for his judgement". "Criticism of the state or state action ... is one of the core areas of freedom of expression," as Professor Christoph Grabenwarter explains in the Dürig/Herzog/Scholz commentary on the Basic Law. And, as the former Minister of Justice Heiko Maas wrote in the "Legal Tribune Online", it also includes "sharp and ugly statements". "That," said the Social Democrat, "everyone has to be able to endure."

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