Comments by "jumble stiltskin" (@jumblestiltskin1365) on "Ireland's Sinister Hate Crime Bill Should Scare Us All -- How Long Until UK Gets Something Similar?" video.

Its interesting and unsurprising to me that Ireland has been "leading" the way with this sort of legislation. I remember seeing an economist once speaking about Ireland at the start of the celtic tiger phenomenon, he essentially said that Ireland was an excellent Testing Ground for new ideas and products (he was mainly talking about consumer products), the idea being that new things were launched on the Irish market, a western market with a small population, this would be less risky than launching in a big market like Germany and then having it fail. I dont see why this sort of thinking can't be applied to Legislation, this is very important to resist in Ireland, if it succeeds there, even minimally, lessons will be learnt and applied elsewhere.
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@Kathleen that's the American influence as much as anything else I suppose.
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It's clearly a very relevant subject in India so its not surprising given the make up of the Indian government that this film would get an official seal of approval there. I wonder if it were a film about hindu atrocities against Muslims if it would be shown there? Sorry to be saying this, I'm not taking away from your valid argument, and it surely is valid to my mind.
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