35 years ago, Anthrax – a band half my class listened to at secondary school – recorded this fantastic track mocking America’s bipolar ‘freedom of speech’, which syncretically combines infantile puritanism with the protection of certain extremist ideologies under the guise of ‘freedom of expression’. I say “certain” because National Socialism falls under this umbrella but Islamic extremism does not, even though they differ little in their aims and methods. Watching all those videos on YouTube today with amusement, where the creators paranoidly censor all politically incorrect words such as ‘war’ or ‘suicide’, I get the impression that little has changed since then…

https://youtu.be/BGP1LLxsalE?si=Iyl36AQNgHux-GMw