>Expression of racist and fascist opinion is not freedom. It is repression.
Freedom for fascists & communists is unfreedom for the rest. More freedom for fascists & communists is less freedom for the rest. The U.S. government used to argue thus, when its troops occupied Japan, Germany, etc. For instance, the SCAP censored Japanese textbooks, asking teachers to do "suminuri" (= manually blacking out the parts that glorify militarism, etc. in each textbook) since there was no time & funding available for rewriting entire textbooks according to the tenets of capitalism & liberal democracy & publishing new ones quickly after the Second World War.
***** The Allied Occupation of Japan
Bill Gordon
May 2000
...The Japanese militarist leaders exercised strict censorship during the war, with violators subjected to imprisonment, torture, and even death. Although the penalties under the Allied Occupation were not nearly so severe (but could result in great economic hardships), the General Headquarters (GHQ) of SCAP continued to practice widespread censorship, with the following being a few examples of censored topics: criticism of SCAP, criticism of U.S. or other Allied nations, references to censorship, criticism of SCAP writing the constitution, and fraternization of Allied personnel with Japanese women (Dower 1999, 411). SCAP found the exercise of censorship to be very effective in curbing Communist and left-wing publications. The censorship by GHQ pointed out to the Japanese people the incongruity between the lofty rights set forth in the new constitution and the actual practices carried out by SCAP.
Dower (1999, 439-40) points out that one of the most important legacies of the Occupation was "continued socialization in the acceptance of authority," with the U.S. authorities making clear that "the better part of political wisdom was silence and conformism." Although the constitution claimed democratic ideals, the use of absolute power by SCAP through the existing bureaucracy, such as the practice of widespread censorship, made it clear to the Japanese that democratic freedoms have their limits....
<http://wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/papers/alliedoc.htm> *****
Yoshie