[nine_k]

I did not say "Europeans", meaning the people. I said "European" meaning the general intellectual / political consensus that good speech should be allowed, while bad speech, for various notions of "bad", should be suppressed, gently or not.

I find this line of thinking quite perilous, even though it was the prevalent mode of thinking through centuries.

Silly slurs, like "<ethnic group> is like <animals>", can be discounted as silly. The real test is saying something really controversial and not obviously stupid. I'm afraid that in Europe it's not easier than in the US.